http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluWsMlfj68

Fight it, fight its repercussions. Then embrace it.

And in total- the first step is embracing the body as the beginning and endpoint: Drives me crazy when people don't realize that. Personal Pet Peeve, sorry.

What you are really writing about here is how touchscreens have no give and that they are fully extensible of eyes and hands. In reality, if you are going to design around touch screen input, imagine you are deaf. You can see you hands and with your eyes. And that's it.
And remeber- the screens right now don't give back. So when you press, you don't know- Your eyes are extremely important.

You can choose to embrace an either/and/or experience with the Iphone and touchscreens- You can emphasize the touch side or the eye side or try to do both:

What's failing with these games, is that it is extremely difficult to do both, because when you want to do both, you want to use some sort of secondary aspect of the hand, namely actual touch- and the Phone has no give. Hence it fails.

I will write up something longer on this eventually, after I do some Bachelors work

Full Disclosure: I'm a Fine Arts student- from a figure drawing background, who is moving into what they call “new media” work. I have a heavy theory background as a result of why things work versus don't work.

Many of us in the watch industry have ignored this advice. We're constantly building watch-like devices that mimic cameras, phones, TVs, etc…none of which succeed with consumers or commercially. We succeed when we stick to what watches do well – providing actionable info at a glance.