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Bright future projected for hand-held games

By Paul Marks

21 April 2010

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Flex your skills

(Image: Human Media Lab/Queens University)

TO TRY a new gaming style, grab some plastic and put a chip on your shoulder.

Zi Ye and Hammad Khalid of the at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, have devised a way of using a shoulder-mounted projector system to display – and play – a game on a bendy A4-sized sliver of plastic. Sensors in the screen allow gameplay to be controlled by bending, shaking or tapping it.

A prototype of the system, called Cobra, was shown last week at the meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. It…

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