Some Microsoft boffins based out of their Cambridge research unit have taken whatever spare time they had, and designed a method of controlling your portable PC by twisting and squeezing it.

They also saved a lot of research money by making the prototype built out of pieces of wire and sticky tape.

The concept looks interesting, and would certainly make one-handed operation of portable PC’s a lot easier. If they combine this technology with the accelerometer system you find in a Wii controller, then you really would end up with a computer you can use anywhere you want, without having to tap away at the screen.

And whoever thought that scientists don’t have a sense of humor was wrong, as they named their research paper:

I Sense a Disturbance in the Force:
Mobile Device Interaction with Force Sensing

Source: BBC news