Finger Writing

motorola has been working on a technology they call finger writing. letting the user input characters (from a 19,000 strong set of chinese characters) by simply running their fingers on the keypad. check it out here.

the idea is simple, use a normal keypad for digits but add capacitive touch sensors coupled with character mapping/recognition softwares to allow punching in sms's in chinese script a whole lot faster!

pretty neat!