Microsoft’s PocketTouch allows multitouch gestures on your phone through your clothes

We’re sure that at times during a meeting, or perhaps during a movie, your phone starts ringing, and sometimes despite it being on silent/vibrate, the vibration can be heard quite loudly especially in a small enclosed space like a meeting room. The good news is that Microsoft has come up with a solution called the PocketTouch, although at the moment it’s more of a prototype.

Basically what the PocketTouch is about is a technology that is placed on the back of smartphones, and will allow users to perform multi-touch gestures on their phones through their clothes, such as jackets, pants pockets, hoodies, etc. This ought to allow you to quickly silence your phone or divert that call to voicemail without having to rummage your jackets or pockets for your phone.

Like we said, this remains a prototype for now and no word if and when Microsoft will start to license out this idea to smartphone manufacturers.