Girton Labs Ltd

What happened to traditional knobs for volume controls on computers? Replaced with  + and - controls on the keyboard, and not so easy to find in a hurry.

Imagine a LCD control surface with real knobs, sliders, and switches for your favourite music player, video editor  or game. This is SenseSurface, just place the unique controls on your application e.g. a music mixer, and ready to go.

Applications that would normally use a mouse or Qwerty keyboard can be now controlled with traditional knobs. The scroll bar on the right hand side of your computer screen can be controlled with a real slider button. 

SenseSurface can be retrofitted to  most laptops with a USB input.  The sensing knobs have a custom designed  movement sensor to determine position within 180 degrees with a 10 bit digital output. The  magnetic knobs can be removed and repositioned immediately by picking them up and moving to a different part of screen. 

A unique sensing surface is attached to the rear of the laptop screen to detect the control's position. The rotary controls are low friction and there are no screen finger prints as with normal touch surfaces. Linear sliders and switches  can also be used on the lcd surface. Controls can be rotated without using a mouse. Applications can include audio and video processing, games and medical. Spreadsheets can be controlled  using a rotary potentiometer to set values. 

For a video please see link from www.girtonlabs.com.

SenseSurface is designed by Lyndsay Williams, Managing Director of Girton Labs; her touch and tilt sensing patent, as used in the iPhone,  was recently sold to Apple Inc. http://tinyurl.com/6ea73a

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More details Lyndsay Williams, www.girtonlabs.com. tel 01223 525696 email lyn@girtonlabs.com