Control your mobile phone with your feet

Researchers are developing a way to input commands on your phone as you walk by altering your stride, or moving your feet in various ways. They call these "gait gestures."

So if you see someone walking funny, perhaps they're just sending a text.

More info: "Gait Gestures: Examining Stride and Foot Strike Variation as an Input Method While Walking"; Waterloo News

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Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 26, 2025
Category: Technology | Telephones | Feet

Comments

Someday soon you will see someone staring at their phone screen while riverdancing down the street.

Posted by eddi on 01/26/25 at 04:12 AM

And for those of us that limp ?

Posted by F.U.D. in Stockholm on 01/26/25 at 05:56 AM

Cue the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Posted by ges on 01/26/25 at 12:18 PM