There's absolutely something new here. I had a one of those finger boards, but what they're explaining in this patent is a feedback mechanism to teach you how to gesture while you are gesturing.
For example, putting down three fingers would bring up icons on your screen explaining what you can do next.
It also goes into assigning functions to your own gestures, something that fingerworks was working on but never completed.
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mike @ Aug 2nd 2007 2:05PM
Apple purchased the guys who made the "Multi-Touch" keyboard.
http://www.fingerworks.com/
I have one of these and it supported about 30 different "chords" or gestures. Nothing new here. Move on.
Mike Manzano @ Aug 2nd 2007 3:28PM
There's absolutely something new here. I had a one of those finger boards, but what they're explaining in this patent is a feedback mechanism to teach you how to gesture while you are gesturing.
For example, putting down three fingers would bring up icons on your screen explaining what you can do next.
It also goes into assigning functions to your own gestures, something that fingerworks was working on but never completed.