Monday, April 21, 2008

The future for Samsung phones: gesture-based UI and water-powered batteries

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Samsung might have just released its new Soul handset here in the UK, but the company also has one eye on the future of mobile technology. Samsung recently patented a mobile user interface that translates your real-world hand waggling into actions on-screen. You'd be able to control a pointer and click through pages by finger movement alone.

And that's not all. The company has also announced that it's developed a way of generating hydrogen by exposing water to metal, which could be used to power phones. Apparently, you'll be able to top up with water to get about ten hours of battery life.

Of course, whether this technology will be in commercial use by the time the Earth runs out of water and we all die fiery climate-change-induced deaths, is anyone's guess…

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