Finger touching wearable mobile phone iF concept award product 2007.

“Finger touching” Designed by Sunman Kwon at Hong-ik University in South Korea, simply slips onto your hand, and then projects a 3x4 mobile-style keypad onto your fingers, with each joint making up a button.

“Finger touching” – a wearable mobile device for enhanced chatting. It introduces a new wearable device that anyone can communicate with that is easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard. Human hand is the most basic communication method. For easier and simpler controls, it uses the instinctive input method “finger joint”. Excluding the thumb, each finger joint makes up twelve buttons. These “knuckle buttons”, based on the cell phone’s 3x4 keypad, are likely to become the most popular input method.

iF concept award product 2007 [Via TechDigest.tv]

In an unrelated report, why wear something when you can just spray the Molecular phone (Nano spray) on your hand?