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Motion-sensitive Handhelds?
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.
The major problem is having to drop it every time you want to click on something.
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Just when I get used to people walking down the street apparently talking to themselves. Now I'm going to be dodging fists when they dial.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset
Would that happen to be a 90 degree tilt?
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All the porn companies are adopting this technology for their web pages.
Move the phone up...
Move the phone down...
Move the phone up...
Suddenly your cell has hair growing from it.
Davak
I wasn't hitting my sister in the head... I was trying to call mommy!
Works as a shutter release for the phone-cam too, but you always seem to get blurry pictures... hmmm...
I may not be funny, but at least I'm... well, not not funny...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Combine tilting web navigation, with smart phones that know your buying habits (and credit card info).
Drop it on the carpet. Pick it up and find out that you just ordered and paid for, a battleship anchor, express delivery to your house.
I discovered that by dropping my Z from a height of about 6 feet onto concrete, I was able to turn off the power. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to turn it back on again. :-(
"Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it?"
I have this feature now, it's called "poor coverage" and the way I hold the phone affects whether I can make calls or not.
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.
Will I retire or break 10K?
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"
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Motion sensitive computing input devices of any kind make for some awesome gaming potential.
In this case, you could have a wicked game of labyrinth running on your PDA!
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
someone beat you to it years ago..
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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...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'm looking at who I want to call, then suddenly I'm connected to some operator in Thailand. I try to hang up, but now I've ordered a pizza. I attempt to cancel the order, and great! I've just booked a flight to Squarenuts, Missouri.
Combine this with pre-emptive ordering, and I am a bankrupt movie star. I might even lose my house on Golden Pond.
I think not.
Then, holding your phone at arms length, wave your arm from left to right. When you hit the 640th virtual cell, quickly move the phone back to the left and down one cell. Repeat until you get to the end of the bottom row, when you return to the top row. Oh, and do all that in about 1/60 second for a flicker-free experience.
I won't even patent this, so it's in the public domain.
...as one of those games where you try and get the ball through the maze and in the hole.
"Honestly occifer, I'm not drunk, I was just dialing the FOP to make a donation"
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