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Didn't Valve previously say something about wristbands and how they would be the future of computer interaction?

That seems very vague to me and I'm having difficulty visualising exactly what that might mean.

Perhaps an accelerometer attached to your wrist would essentially allow you to use any object as a makeshift mouse/keyboard?

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I'd guess that a sufficiently accurate sensor on your wrist could track the motion of your hand and fingers just via muscle/tendon/etc movement, for one thing. (Place a finger on your wrist, and move your fingers around!) Combined with an accelerometer to track the overall motion, and you have a pretty versatile system.

I wonder if this has anything to do with CLANG [0] (the recently kickstarted sword-fighting simulator). In some of the videos they hinted that a custom controller is coming down the line.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang

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