Flex for Success
Bendy mobile phone joystick is on the way
If you're fed up fiddling with a tiny mobile keypad to play games, join the club. Thankfully, help may be at hand courtesy of "interactive textiles" company Eleksen, which launched a Bluetooth joystick at this month's Consumer Electronics Show, a yearly exhibition held in Las Vegas of all that's great and good in gadget-land.
The flexible joystick incorporates Eleksen's 'bend sensor' technology (no sniggering at the back there) which is woven from conductive elastic, to apparently measure the degree and direction of flex in 360 degrees.
What does this mean? We don't know, but Eleksen reckons it will be perfect for playing games on mobile phones or laptops. Plus, as the joystick connects to your phone via Bluetooth, there are no messy wires.
Sadly it's still a working prototype at this stage, but Eleksen is looking to license the design to manufacturers. Watch this space.
