Print
Creative has filed a patent that could change the way we operate touchscreen devices. Filed back in January under the 3DLabs brand, the patent describes a drag and drop user interface with "action tabs."
In a nutshell, users would be able to manipulate "action" areas of the screen and drag objects (like a music title or video, for example) onto an action tab. Or as Creative describes the technology in its filing:
"A system and methods for a novel user interface of a touch sensitive screen for pocket device. The user interface contains display items and action tabs. Display items are configured to be draggable if being dragged at substantially horizontal direction; display items are configured to be scrollable if being dragged at substantially vertical direction. Dragging and releasing a draggable item to an action tab causes a specified action or a sequence of actions being applied to the item."
Because Creative filed the patent under its 3DLabs brand, now known as ZiiLabs, we wouldn't be surprised to see this technology show up on the Zii EGG.
Image Credit: Creative via creative.techinhiding.com
Comments are closed on this article
QUINTIX256
August 11, 2009 at 11:14am
Some on 4chan claim, and I believe them, that the Zii Egg looks an aweful lot like the iPhone, and that the name is an obvious Wii knockoff.
Hopefully they will try to actually license their technologies rather than hold them all to themselves. Oh wait, EAX... No wonder why Realtech is killing them.
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
