Tarati - Touchless Cellphone
Tarati (in Sanskrit, meaning through) is a step towards rewriting cell phone history. Tarati enables the user to connect with others by passing fingers, in order, through key holes. This action of dialing alone is a more magical experience and, hence, more indicative of what’s really happening beyond the visible realm. Tarati beckons the user to touch someone without physically touching a single key. Its design reflects human connectivity in a less material/mechanical, more sensual, way. Tarati is a subtle device, but ever-so-powerful in its fearlessness.
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lol
s-t-uPID i think you can’t take a picture with it is that technology wtf just give me some pocket pc with wich you can call , a navigator and more in it. thank u
the only good point is ; there are no keys so they can’t block no more
“o m G !!!” has a point but it was quite painful to read.
This does really look like design for design’s sake. There is no real functional advantage to this method of dialing. It looks like it would actually take longer to dial.
In terms of aesthetics the novelty would wear off quickly and you’d want to snap the thing in half (this looks quite easy to do). Just a bit of fluff, really.
The desing would have been useful when cellphone started but not now when technolgoy has converged so much that you’ve PDA, DigiCam, Music, Video, so much stuff in your
phone.
Someone with biggg fingers can’t even get this thing to work
your just jelous, lets see you come out with something th@ hot!
unfortunately, I agree with luke. It’s a wonderful exploration of concept, experience, and it definitely breaks the mold in human-device interaction, but I think this is where the project’s influence and purpose stops. Practically, I don’t think it’s very useful in that one of the more important aspects of finger-button interaction is tactile feedback. Even touchscreen devices like the iPhone have the tactile feedback of the user’s finger “bouncing” off the screen once a selection is pressed. With this design, all tactile feedback is lost, and the user must apply force both in the downstroke and the “upstroke” (pulling the finger out of the hole) when making a selection. The whole process may be conceptually “serene” but it’s probably also very slow, time consuming, and i’m imagining having to look at the keypad as I dial, no matter how used to the phone i get.
I’m just waiting for those iPhone users to say… Where’s my tactile feedback?