Sunday, 24 June 2012

Ringbow hits Kickstarter, promises directional pad-assisted touch gaming

Ringbow is the first gaming accessory designed to enhance the experience of touch screen gaming. Since touch screens are controlled with fingers, a finger-worn tool, specifically a ring, is the natural choice for complementing them. Operating Ringbow in conjunction with using a touch device enables countless new features and a much more efficient user experience.Ringbow lets you free your fingers from your device, leaving your hands available to do whatever you feel like doing: eating a sandwich, drinking a beer, high-fiving your buddy or stroking a puppy. Whatever you'd choose to do with your hands!
Ringbow innovates touch devices’ gameplay, offering unique additions to existing mobile games as well as developing new games that couldn’t previously be played on touch devices. Ringbow also makes porting consoles games and PC games to mobile devices easier than ever which can be done without affecting and damaging their great experience.
How does Ringbow work?
Ringbow uses a standard Bluetooth protocol, meaning it supports any and all Bluetooth enabled devices.  Turn your Ringbow on, pair it to your device and it simply works.
Thanks to the D-pad button design you enjoy a great sense of tactile control. When performing an action you feel when you pressed and where. Though this first model is ideal for gaming, it can do so much more to put functions at your fingertips.
You can use Ringbow for;
  • remote browsing while reading;
  • to correct misspelled emails;
  • to act as a remote control for your TV;
  • to answer phone calls while driving;
  • to transform your tablet into a gaming console for your kids;
  • and so much more…
Ringbow provides a set of intuitive controlling features that provides tactile feedback, enhances accessibility and dramatically improves reaction times,  greatly enhancing the user experience of touch devices.
Ringbow in a nutshell;
* the world's first touch-screen gaming accessory
* a comfortable ring that you wear on your finger whilst gaming
* adds layers of functionality to each touch
* acts as a mouse/joystick device to use for gaming
* builds a new platform for existing and new games
AT&T FOUNDRY & RINGBOW - We collaborated with the AT&T Foundry to explore the potential of Ringbow. Take a look at how they envision the Ringbow device - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFJw1ZXFvB0 

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