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Motion-sensitive Handhelds?

Posted by michael on from the shaken-not-stirred dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it? This article on ZDNet describes a new smartphone that is motion sensitive, so users can zoom into a Web page, scroll round a document or switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset." The company website has a little more information.

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  1. Nintendo beat you to it by yerricde · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kirby's Tilt and Tumble already does this, using a motion sensor in the cart to control Kirby's motion. It's compatible with Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance but not GBA SP or GameCube GB Player.

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  2. Old palms made this easy by msheppard · · Score: 3, Informative

    The BOSPDAUG (Boston PDA User's Group) has been putting accelermeters in palms for a while now. There was a brief project to put two of them in to get full motion... and then invent a new form of entering text with hand motions.

    The best part was the name: "Physical Graffiti"

    M@

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  3. You should have linked by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    To the original project. I have some samples of the latest model 2G and 10G accelerators from Analog Devices, the ADXL202JE and ADXL210JE respectively. They are in a smaller package now, which means they should fit in there even better, but I haven't yet got the surface mount caps that I need to implement the hack inside my Palm Pro with 2MB upgrade. Still, it's on my list.

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  4. Re:Tilt sensitive Mobile Phones? by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    someone beat you to it years ago..

    here

    and here's the game ...

    Done this with my Palm pilot for over 5 years now... Sheesh, nice to see companies inventing things that students did back in the 90's...

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