The clever Japanese geeks (Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro) over at Tokyo University have come up with a new interface for mobile phones. This isn’t an application which you would be able to install onto your iPhone or Android phone though. Its a completely new thing. The so far named “vision-based Input Interface” new technology enables users of the mobile phone to control the device without actually touching it, kind of like an “in air” mechanism.

This means, the device utilies the interface’s ability to recognise in 3D the motion of finger movements, thus allowing direct control of the mobile.

Sounds complicated and it probably is, but to use it looks like a piece of cake, check out the video below.

While it is very fancy and all, a major drawback is that this new interface requires your device to have a camera that video capture at 154 fps. Also it may not be very convenient and practical, afterall who would want to control your mobile in such a way when you could just touch the screen instead?

[via IntoMobile]