Apple patents a huge dictionary of multi-touch gestures and application for liquid metals

Multi-touch gesture dictionary patentReady to return to digital illiteracy? what will happen if Apple decides to apply at once the extensive vocabulary of multi-touch gestures that it registered in a patent. There are many different commands, following the same pattern of gestures, but varying according to the fingers used.

In this case, you would use the tip or the side of the finger of one hand and one, two or three other fingers. The relative position of the fingers would tell the computer which one it is (do the test: touch the fingertips, the index, the largest of all and the ring on the trackpad; it is difficult and unnatural to leave them all in a straight line). Four combinations of fingers (finger tip + 1, 2 or 3; finger side + 3) could be used in 13 different ways to produce 29 different actions and still allow others to be configured by the user.

The big problem with implementing this is that, unlike some simple gestures (pinch to zoom? of course!), most of these completely artificial and counterintuitive. Rotate your finger and three more fingers anti-clockwise to open a file? H??? Learning Decorating all these gestures should be quite a process, if they are a standard of the operating system.

This patent was signed by John Elias and Wayne Westerman, two former employees of Fingerworks, a company acquired by Apple five years ago.

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Another invention deals with the application of liquid metals on heat dissipating surfaces using a spray. Despite the mention of “liquid metal” referring us to Liquidmetal, I believe that there is no connection between this patent and the technology whose use in electronics was recently acquired exclusively by Apple.

Patent for use of liquid metals

Apparently, the liquid metal is used for allowing spray dispersion and for being able to change state in operating ranges of the electronic components to be coated. During a change in physical state, a substance capable of absorbing large amounts of heat without changing its temperature may be the principle of registration.

(via Patently Apple)