These days smartphones let you do much anything , but you still have to reach in to your pocket to use them . Now , researchers at Nokia aim to solve that problem with a charismatic ring dubbedNenya , after a ring find in The Lord of the Rings , that you could twist around your finger’s breadth to control your phone .
The doughnut itself looks like a stock piece of jewelry , but is actually a impregnable magnet . Moving the ring do changes in the surround magnetic field , which are picked up by a bracelet wear out by the user that connects to their phone via Bluetooth . You rotate the band to pick from a number of alternative , which could be memorize , played as audio through phone , or expose on a screen , then push the ring towards your fingertip to select . The choice could include asking a telephoner to sustain , or updating your location on a societal mesh .
drug user can wrick the pack with either their other hand or the same handwriting , though the latter is more unmanageable . The research worker conducted two modest trials and find that masses could accurately position the band in roughly 45 arcdegree increments , suggesting that a ring - see to it fare could contain up to eight options . They will present their findings at theConference on Human Factors in Computing Systemsin Vancouver , Canada next month .
There are few problems to solve before you may pop out ring your phone , however . The bracelet is presently a rather bulky and unattractive gimmick , but the electronics inwardly could be incorporated into a watch or jewelry bracelet , and the system also detects the annulus when user move about , which could execute unwanted commands . There ’s also the issue of walking around with a large freehanded attractor on your digit , with the potential to pull in nearby metallic objects and damage credit cards or hard drives .
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