Ringbow Relevation May Shake Up Touch Screen Rental Opportunities

Touch screen technology is really changing the way that businesses function, especially as the screens become more common in tablets, mobile devices, televisions and monitors.

Ironically, one of the great limiters of touch screen expansion comes in the form of dimension. Touch screens are commonly small (at least as they appear on the Motorola Xoom, iPad, etc.) and that rather hinders user ability.

To change menus or get involved with the more complex functions, touch screen devices require the user to fiddle around with complex mechanisms. That’s why a new device, demonstrated at the California Israel Chamber Of Commerce (CICC), is making a few ripples.

In the gaming community, tower defense and point and click shooter games are limited on touch screen-enabled devices. Even with advancements in NVIDIA-sanctioned integrated graphics cards, honeycomb processors and cloud-based game hosting services like OnLive, this fundamental tech hobby has failed to catch on with mobile users.

And part of that has to do with intrinsic limitations. There’s only so much you can do with a straight touch screen menu that’s crammed in to a few mere inches. Take the game “Sentinel” for example. It’s a pretty epic, fun game geared towards the mobile market. And while it’s performed fairly well, one of its primary criticisms has to do with the complexity of its menus.

A gadget like the Ringbow breaks open the dimensional barriers and lets gestures open up a whole realm of developers.

But one CNET review pointed out that the adaptability of this device might be its great limiter. Developers, especially game developers, may not want to develop apps around hardware that not everyone has.

Then again, it could make for a great marketing gimmick.

CNET writer Rafe Needleman’s final take on the Ringbow and its implications for the future mirror my own. Needleman states, “It'd be great as a secondary controller in military and service vehicles, and arguably very useful for people who otherwise have their hands full but need access to technology--in medicine, perhaps. I would not bet against this technology being taken up in military and industrial applications, but it's too early in the history of touchscreen devices to say they need this kind of hardware to make them more usable.”

Don’t rule out the Ringbow, yet – there’s a thousand and one ways to improve touch screen tech and this might just be the one that comes out on top.

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