Touch Any Screen With Your Camera, or TASWYC in short, is a freeware application for Nokia S60 3rd Edition that simulates touch-screen behaviour on a non-touch screen mobile device using the phone’s inbuilt camera.

When the user moves the camera, the application reflects the movements on the phone’s screen. One difference is that the ordinary touch-screen phones have sensors spread across the surface of the screen but in case of TASWYC, the inbuilt camera is the only sensor that allows the TASWYC application to process what is seen in front of camera to sense touches. Instead of moving hands on the touch-screen, hands should be moved in front of the camera.

On a mobile phone, the camera should be turned On in the background. The user should then move an object, with a pre-defined color configured in the TASWYC application, in front of the camera. Once configured, the TASWYC program detects the movement of that object and reflects it to a pointer on the mobile phone’s screen.

TASWYC consists of two modules:

- TAS Key: A virtual touch keypad for writing instead of using the ordinary keypad.
- TAS Proof: A simple prototype of the famous graph game “Planarity” to test drag and drop.

General requirements include Screen resolution of 320×240 and a Nokia S60 device capable of Java J2ME with CLDC-1.1/MIDP-2.0 .

Click here to download TASWYC for Nokia S60 3rd Edition mobile devices