Try to imagine it, it’s worth it
I understand that it takes a leap of faith and imagination to envision how glancing works, since it is an unprecedented and unique creation. The ultimate goal was to produce the best interface connecting the mind to the outside world, a speedy thought-relay capable of challenging, or even outperforming, speech itself. Finding the right encoding scheme proved to be the key to unlock that capacity. The result is Glancing-Pad; the next step in communication revolution.
Still unconvinced? Read this
Feeling skeptical about glancing? Or perhaps you experience a failure of foresight. History has proven time and again, that many initially hard to imagine new skills, behaviors, and improvements later become perfectly natural, even trivial activities. Human bodies are adaptive and incredibly capable.
I have an enormous trust in the capacity of the human hand. The communicative utility of the vocal apparatus is amazing, but nothing beats the hand. Both the complexity and adaptive usefulness of this - actually the most important ‘output apparatus’ of our body - is unique. We rarely think about it in such terms but any ordinary everyday hand action is conveying our mind’s communication, whether it is to manipulate objects, to write, or to signal with gestures. Thus, with technology making our signaling nimble and gentle, the hand will gain a new capacity for the real time, speech-like communication. As to the singing, yelling and screaming – it will better be done the old way, vocally.
There is an increasing need for a new human-machine communication medium. While information itself is 'weightless', we tap our keyboards forcefully enough to play a marching drumbeat. That has to change. The most important aspect of glancing is its fineness. Lesser force means reduced fatigue and tissue damage. Miniature motions translate to speed. We don’t have to wave our hands over keyboards anymore to send the messages; we may just barely noticeably wiggle our fingers. Glancing uncovers this amazing, still untapped capacity, which, with the help of modern technology, will be used to elevate our communication to the level we deserve and expect in the 21st century.
Although the glancing motions belong to an ordinary motion variety, nevertheless this marvel of design, our hand, is not naturally ready to glance. The glancing skill, like all skills, has to be acquired by learning and practice. But, people will quickly adapt and wonder why it wasn’t thought of before.
Keyboard is king, but not for long
Current methods incapacitate us and prohibit us from producing easy, effective communication. Handwriting is slow and requires us to have a pen, paper and flat steady surface available at all times. Keyboards need to be connected to a computer and require us to sit within reach. Speech-recognition devices produce unreliable results and often fail to work in noisy environments. By recognizing that our fingers can be trained to convey a language, not unlike our vocal cords, Glancing-Pad opens new avenues of completely portable communication.
Glancing is done with unmatched ease. There are no bulky gadgets to carry, no postural adjustments to make, no visual demands to meet, no keys to search for or press. Encoding is performed through the natural feeling and relaxed motions of one’s fingers and involves the use of only one hand. Just reach out to wherever the pad is located and run your fingers over its surface. That’s all. There are no damaging hand motions or strain. Effortless. Ergonomic. Fast. Portable. Unobtrusive. Noiseless. Instinctive.
People might be reluctant to learn the new techniques needed to operate the Glancing-Pad. However, even this poses no great challenge. Dexterity will easily be attained due to ease of operation and positive feedback, two essential factors in training of a new skill. Glancing-Pad makes use of a unique symbol encoding system that might just be the simplest method of communication devised to date. Glancing-Pad, which will be of great benefit also to the gaming industry, can be mastered by playing games.
Once mastered, you will see that Glancing-Pad’s encoding moves are minuscule in range and resulting in high-speed and virtually effortless operation.
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Have you ever wanted to take a note while driving on a highway? Or while sitting on a bench in the park, or jogging, or in the concert hall or a movie theater, or while having a great idea just before falling asleep? Glancing-Pad is the answer. It’s perfect for taking quick notes, or writing volumes, and it allows you to accomplish both without changing the position of your body. It’s also ideal for communication taking place in crowded and noisy environments, like a stock market.
Glancing-Pad will replace any other type of input devices. It can be used as a fast command-style browser to speed up on-screen operations. It can emulate a computer’s touch pad to navigate a cursor. Even when not connected to a PDA or laptop, the intelligent Glancing-Pad can serve as an autonomous note taker, code generator and even as a computer. And of course, it’s a perfect companion to a wearable computer. Or a palmtop. Or a cell phone.
It is also suitable for operating gaming devices, due to the genre’s large number of instantly available action or conversation encoding symbols.
And, among its many other functions, perhaps Glancing-Pad’s most important application is that it can serve as a real time translator of glanced messages. Thus, while using audio output, people who speak different languages may converse with one another as if each one is fluent in the other person’s native tongue. Glancing-Pad’s exceptional portability and nimble speed prove essential for such functionality.
Each Glancing-Pad may be personalized and made secure by being programmed to detect and react to a user’s unique glancing style. In addition, Glancing-Pad may be used to generate complex passwords for enhanced security.
From thin to thick, hard to flexible, Glancing-Pad can be made to fit any appearance-based requirement, It may also be attached anywhere on the wear or remain hidden from view, allowing one to operate it discretely beneath one’s garments or in one’s pocket.
Numerous technologies can be used to achieve Glancing-Pad’s desired functionality. Furthermore, Glancing-Pad contains no moving parts and its construction is entirely electronic. As a result, mass production of Glancing-Pad will be inexpensive and its supreme utilitarian and esthetic appeal will assure its general acceptance.
Glancing-Pad’s encoding scheme reaches a limit of simplicity unseen in other devices, and no other applied scheme can outmatch its paucity of motion, smoothness and haptic/biomechanical naturalness.
It is hard to realize what the limits of this new technology will be. Definitely, one is that improved man-machine communication will open venues for new activities and behaviors, and a new class of software devices will emerge advancing our capacity to interact with both the digital and real worlds.
Symbol Encoding Apparatus and Method, United States Patent No.: 7,038,659