Patent ID: 7991920

Claim:
A system comprising: an information database for storing information; a free hand motion sensor system, comprising: at least one pair of conductive plates configured to face one another; a capacitive region defined between the pair of conductive plates; and at least one sensor coupled to the pair of conductive plates to detect at least one of a presence, movement, and position of a user's appendage within the capacitive region; an information display device to display the information associated with at least one lane of information selected from a plurality of lanes of information based upon the movement of the user's appendage, wherein each lane of information is associated with different sources of information comprising one or more of textual, web page, newsfeed, electronic mail, and streaming video feed information, wherein the information display device is configured to dynamically display at least one portion of the information sequentially in a fixed location of a display portion; and a processing system configured to adjust at least one display characteristic comprising one or more of contrast level, display format and display rate of the information in the display portion of the information display device based upon signals from the presence, movement, and position of the user's appendage in the capacitive region.