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Re:Power-touch – Shortcut touch keys on mobile by 50CNT on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:48PM (#12897745)
It's still a cool prototype, and there's still cool stuff you could add. For instance, if I were to use my phone as an extra keyboard for shortcuts, etc., I'd probably have it tethered via USB. USB device identification should be handled in software, so it stands to reason that your phone can pretend to be a USB HID device (similar to what is done in this[0] paper). Having a simple scripting layer would be interesting too. Trackpad wouldn't be bad either.

Another thing that could be cool is having your phone pretend to be a USB webcam.

[0]http://cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/research/acsac10.pdf

Re:Power-touch – Shortcut touch keys on mobile by vaqm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:14AM (#12898520)
This has exactly what you are looking for, including USB support: http://quadro.me
Re:Power-touch – Shortcut touch keys on mobile by 50CNT on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:29PM (#12906051)
That is pretty cool. Sadly iOS and Windows only, whereas I'm running Android and Linux.