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Now Control A Smartwatch With Wrist Movements

Oct 15, 2016 Add Comment
Now Control A Smartwatch With Wrist Movements

Scientists have invented a new smartwatch that can be controlled with wrist movements and gestures. This is a funny thing right!

WristWhirl, the smartwatch is a prototype that uses the wrist as a joystick to perform common touch screen gestures with one-handed.

Xing Dong Tang and his team built this smartwatch using a 2-inch TFT display, infrared proximity sensors and Piezo vibration sensor placed inside the wrist strap, which is then connected to an Arduino DUE microcontroller board.


Researchers created a gesture shortcuts app to access shortcuts by drawing gestures, a music player app to allow users to scroll through things through wrist-swipes and play a selected song by double tapping the thumb and index finger together.

A map app was implemented for which 2D maps could be panned and zoomed depending on where the watch was held in relation to one's body. For more info read this newspaper.

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