Hardware hacker solves a big smartwatch problem: your fat fingers (video)

Touch screen interface is pushed beyond its limits on a tiny smartwatch screen. Cue Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group to turn the entire body of the smartwatch into a joystick.

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