{"id":31243,"date":"2016-10-20T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bendable-whammyphone-offers-flexible-music-control"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:21:03","slug":"bendable-whammyphone-offers-flexible-music-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bendable-whammyphone-offers-flexible-music-control","title":{"rendered":"Bendable WhammyPhone offers flexible music control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUIo-Yt2QSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a team from Queen\u2019s University in Canada demonstrated a smartphone prototype called <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/reflex-smartphone-concept-flexible-bend-gestures\/41895\/\" target=\"_blank\">ReFlex<\/a> that had a flexible display capable of flipping virtual book pages in response to what were dubbed bend gestures. Researchers from the same Human Media Lab have now developed a similar device called the WhammyPhone that\u2019s claimed to be the world\u2019s first virtual musical instrument for flexible phones.<\/p>\n<p>The WhammyPhone prototype sports a 1920 \u00d7 1080 pixel full high-definition Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen display and, like the ReFlex device, includes a bend sensor. This means that a user can manipulate the sound of electronically-generated instruments such as a guitar or violin by bending, squeezing or twisting the \u201csmartphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhammyPhone is a completely new way of interacting with sound using a smartphone,\u201d said Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Queen\u2019s University. \u201cIt allows for the kind of expressive input normally only seen in traditional musical instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/bendable-whammyphone-queens-university\/46017\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/bendable-whammyphone-queens-university\/46017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, a team from Queen\u2019s University in Canada demonstrated a smartphone prototype called ReFlex that had a flexible display capable of flipping virtual book pages in response to what were dubbed bend gestures. Researchers from the same Human Media Lab have now developed a similar device called the WhammyPhone that\u2019s claimed to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,42,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59985,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243\/revisions\/59985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}