Gest

Type with your hand gestures (Say goodbye to keyboards)

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Type with your hand gestures (Say goodbye to keyboards)

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Looks really cool, I'm curios though, how do you see this being used with Photoshop, for example? What would be the functions / workflow? Will a user be switching between mouse-keyboard-gest?

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11yr ago

webhook.rodeo

Maker

@_annacates While it's our vision to replace the keyboard and mouse we know that we've got a long way to go before that happens. Today, we think Gest will be most useful when it supplements the keyboard, mouse, and stylus in the areas where they fall short. For example, say someone is using a Wacom tablet in photoshop. They'd wear Gest on their non-drawing hand and use it for quick gesture shortcuts as well as object manipulation - like rotating objects, resizing (think things like pinch to zoom), and adjust sliders and dials for different effects. We’ve heard a lot of designers value comfort so we wanted something that would be ergonomic, allowing them to create accurately and efficiently but also not have to reach back and forth between keyboard mouse and stylus all day.

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11yr ago

@pfista Thanks for elaborating on that. Sounds good. Can't wait to try it ;)

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11yr ago

Cool product. What were the main challenges from a technological point of view? Can you talk about manufacturing the product?

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11yr ago

Gest

Maker

@seysconstantijn The technology is actually pretty simple on the hardware side. We place an IMU on each finger and one on the hand and we use motion processing to get an extremely accurate model of the hand. The hardware simply collects the data and sends it back to a phone or computer that does most of the heavy lifting in software, so we didn't have to do a lot of R&D on the hardware dev. The real challenge with building this device is the user experience. On the hardware side, it had to be comfortable on a wide variety of hands and it needed to fit snugly on each finger so we aren't getting junk data from the sensor wiggling around. We can't afford to personalize them so they had to be one-size-fits-all. And finally, the wires needed to withstand lots and lots of flexing! Hope that answers your question.

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11yr ago

Strikingly

Photoshop with this? I don't think so. I see this more like a cool toy but not very practical for a designer like myself to be honest. Really interested to see what else it can really do.

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11yr ago

webhook.rodeo

Maker

@irvingtorresyc Irving, thanks for the feedback! I'd love to hear more about why you think so. Shoot me an email if interested: mike at apotact dot com

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11yr ago

Super awesome, the only remark I have is that I like to use my thumbs for the space bar, which I guess isn't possible with this?

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11yr ago

is there a steep learning curve? will funds also be used to pay for dance lessons, because in that video he's kinda just jumping...

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11yr ago

Modaal

Hunter

Gest is a wearable device that sits on your hand and tracks your finger movements, so you can control your computer with hand gestures. Gest team claimed that the device is accurate enough to allow you to type without a keyboard! In other words, If you have a set of two, you can turn any surface into a keyboard and be productive with your phone or tablet. The campaign just went live on Kickstarter!

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11yr ago

You guys are almost reaching your Kickstarter goal congrats 🎉🎉 . I like the idea and it's cool except the fighter glove look which makes the wearer look like techie 😄 Anyplans for in air-typing just like use fingers to write something in air and guess the words that are drawn along with typing on a plain surface

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11yr ago

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