The Innovation
Touch, With A Personal Flavor
Ringbow introduces “Touch Flavor“, the most advanced way to interact with your touch screen. By using Ringbow, a user can control the context for touch functions, and can even let the touch screen know which finger of which hand is touching it.
The Thumb Revolution
Ringbow is a pioneer in finger-based interfaces and presents “The Thumb Revolution“. Using the thumb to operate the Ringbow device, a user is never bound to the sensing surface of a touch screen, allowing much greater freedom and convenience in interactions.
Multiplying Functionality
Ringbow multiplies the functionality of touch, enabling a much more advance way to control touch screen interfaces. Now you can perform complex operations quicker, more effectively and naturally.
Combined Touch
Many different combinations of touching and operating Ringbow open up a whole new world of features. Some of which cannot be achieved otherwise, such as simultaneously using the Ringbow device and performing a touch operation.
User Identification
Ringbow can also be utilized for user identification. As demonstrated in the clip above, different interface elements (tanks, in this example) can be assigned to different users. With this, a whole new dimension of gameplay and group dynamics can be available to any number of touch screen users.
Maximizing Display Size
By assigning control of certain operation to Ringbow, the need to display virtual controls is eliminated, thus taking advantage of more screen space. In the clip above, for example, changing weapons is done “outside” the display area, so no weapons-menu needs to be presented.
Above is a demonstration of a drawing application and a Ringbow early prototype, in which the stroke properties (width, color and transparency) are controlled by the prototype, without displaying menus. Notice how the user can control the properties while drawing, simultaneously, for advanced effects such as drawing a stroke while changing its width.
