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Finger-Nose Stylus for Touch Screens (2011)
- turtleyacht 10mo agoThis helps raise the head somewhat. Arms may still tire.
- petermcneeley 10mo agoA must have for those not Cyrano de Bergerac.
- EvanAnderson 10mo agoI find that my nose is only really good for scrolling. Having better accuracy for nose pointing would make it more useful, but I think I'll stick to using it au natural vs. this stylus. I absolutely have scrolled my phone w/ my nose before. It was never necessary back when phones were a reasonable size to use one-handed. Now that every phone is a tablet-sized monstrosity I resort to nose-scrolling in the few-and-far-between times when I'm forced to use my phone one-handed.
- emptybits 10mo agoLooks promising. Does it support multi-snout gestures and standard boop-boop protocols?
- devsda 10mo agoMy naive over engineered retro kind of solution would be 1. Add a pointer mode into the os 2. Build touchpad/trackball type sensor tracking gestures using non capacitive sensors probably at the nav bar level and on the bottom edges or just the right edge(sorry left handed folks)
- dhosek 10mo agoThere was (maybe still is?) a handicapped artist working the Santa Monica promenade who created his work on an iPhone. It’s been a while, but I think he clutched a stylus in his teeth to do the drawing. As I recall he either had no arms or severely shortened arms, but again it’s been a long time and I never took a picture because that would have felt exploitative.
- gnabgib 10mo ago(2011) Certainly first submitted then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505960
- ar_turnbull 10mo agoThanks.
- gnabgib 10mo agonp Calgary buddy
- analog31 10mo agoIn my younger days I had a summer job working on adaptive technology for severely impaired children. Even pre-computer era, a pointer on a headband and a chart of words was used by some kids to communicate. We made a digital thing with a touch pad, and the head pointer was used with it too.
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- altairprime 10mo agoI do this with my nose (unassisted) while I'm washing dishes with the phone on the above-sink mount. Handy for clearing notifications. This tool would help.
- nneonneo 10mo agoSee also the DATANOSE, published in 1991 (in an actual ACM conference, no less): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/datanose/uist91_henry_datanose.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/datanose/uist91_henry_datanos...
- fuzzy_lumpkins 10mo agohonestly with a solid adjustable arm for the side of the tub, id absolutely do this
- makeitdouble 10mo agoFunny thing is no voice assistant seem to help clicking a specific onscreen button.
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- xg15 10mo agoIt's good, though a bit too on the nose for my taste.
- delichon 10mo agoSeems like this could now be done without the prosthetic, just with the selfie camera and facial recognition. Point where your nose is pointing and double blink to tap. Tongue gestures to scroll, maybe.
- xg15 10mo agoNo one said your user can't be a lizard.
- rozab 10mo agoSince smartphones became too large to reliably use with one hand, I've been an avid nose user. It helps to naturally possess a pointed proboscis not unlike the one pictured. I wonder if the clever interaction designers at Google had this in mind when they put a bunch of key gestures right at the top edge of the device?
- alde 10mo agoNice. I have normal winter gloves without the special “touchscreen” coating, so in freezing temps I became proficient with using my nose to unblock and answer calls on my iphone.