Thumb transmitter turns your palm into a virtual keypad

Wouldn't it be grand if you could control your phone, smart TV or music player with remote swipes and other gestures? A thumb-worn transmitter makes it all possible.

 

Fin, the maker of the thumb-worn device, said the gadget connects with your smart device via Bluetooth and transmits gesture-based commands.

 

"(A) person driving a car can use Fin as their key, or take phone calls or control the music player without taking their hands off the steering wheel; a smartphone user can rub their index finger against the thumb to zoom their screens in and out and they can assign numbers to different sections of their fingers, turn their hand into a numeric keypad and tap in a phone number without even touching the phone," it said on its YouTube video:

 

 

Tech site Mashable said the device can control up to three devices such as smartphones, car radios and smart TVs.

 

Mashable added Fin has five preprogrammed gestures, though users can create custom ones on an app.

 

"People in today's world are becoming more busy, but still they are wasting a lot of time interacting with their smart devices," Rohildev Nattukallingal, founder of RHL Vision Technologies, the startup behind Fin, told Mashable.

 

Nattukallingal said the device "removes this interaction gap by allowing users to quickly interact with those devices."

 

Mashable said Fin's creators hope the natural interaction can help people who are visually impaired.

 

Nattukallingal added the device can last for up to a month on one charge "if it's in power-saving mode, and is only used for eight hours a day."

 

The Mashable report said the device will sell for $120, and may be released in September 2014.

 

Meanwhile, Mashable said Nattukallingal and his team are working to raise $100,000 in flexible funding on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. — TJD, GMA News