Motion Controlled Smartphone Previewed

BoB writes "The folks at MobileBurn have had a chance to play in detail with a new motion controlled smartphone prototype by MyOrigo, called 'mydevice'. Surprisingly, it actually works quite well, and the writer claims it's fun to use, too. Is this the start of a whole range of motion controlled devices?" We covered a previous showing of MyOrigo's device a few months back.

Comments

great . . .

[loraksus]

So not only do people see me "talking to myself" (earpiece) but also me jerking my phone rapidly and waving my arms.
I just need a 3 way call with 2 shrinks to be given one of those nifty white jackets with the long sleeves.
"I'm not crazy. . . Yes I am. . . Shut up, all of you."

Another reason for people to think you're crazy..

[bakreule]

First it was mobile phones in general. Remember way back when you could hear someone talking in public, but there were no answering voices? ("Who the HELL is he talking to???")

Next came handsfree with autoanswering. It scared the crap out of me when the guy in front of me in line, sorta-kinda looking in my direction, would all of a sudden say, "Hello? Hi! How's it going?"

Now people will think you're epiletic or something when they see you waving a phone about crazily. Reading email isn't that bad, but what happens when you install Pacman?

Although maybe it would be good exercise against carpals....

Stupid name ...

[straybullets]

"Can I use your my device, please ?"

Re:Stupid name ...

[Ripplet]

I absolutely agree. I hate any name that begins with "My". It's just pants!!

It's as if some years ago, some marketroid deep in the basements of Redmond once wanted to leave a bit earlier than normal on a friday afternoon:
Engineer: "Hey marketing dude, what shall we call this new thing we've got here?"
Marketing Dude: "Aw hell I dunno, let's just call it 'MyThing'".

Then, incredibly, other marketroids the world over simply gave in and got assimilated:
Marketroid1: "Well that's it then, Microsoft have come up with the ultimate naming scheme, might as well take our stock options and retire now."
Marketroid2: "Hey wait a moment, they can't trademark just the 'My' part of it right? So we can call our other thing that we make 'MyOtherThing', yay!"

Marketroids the world over rejoiced, and never did any work again, even though they were getting paid even more than before because they were coming up with names as good as Microsoft's.

Unfortunately, the rest of us got stuck with the stupid friggin' Mythis, Mythat, Mykitchensink, ad infinitum.
And as for having 'my' in *both* the product and company name, all I can say is: "My, oh my, oh my!!!"

Playing in public

[alephnull42]

First impressions:
- There's a technical term for people shaking their things in public. I believe the term is "w*nker" or "exhibitionist"
- Cellphone etiquette has improved a bit at last, and we have grown used to people talking to themselves in public. With this innovation, we can expect guys in suits doing a weird St-Vitus-SHake-that-funky-booty-type dance in restaurants, airports, streets.
- Looking at the problems my father used to have with his self-winding mechanical watch - i.e. Look, shake, hold to ear to see if its ticking, shake swear, hold to ear again, twiddle knob, shake, swear, swear - and this was in a time when people were still able to build GOOD mechanical devices, I cant see this thing lasting very long before it goes on the blink.

"If you wish to speak to an operator, put your hands on your hips, and stick your knees insiiiiiiide"

Contra Ref

[241comp]

Of course, to access your speed dial you just use the "special code" - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right.

mystery calls

[Anonymous Coward]

Greate so now instead of your voicemail filling up with inaudible bus/train converations, from someone sitting on their phone, you'll get it filling up with some funky inuadible dance tracks from the nightclub.

Can't resist saying it...

[Vandil X]

This will add a whole new dimension to "phone sex".

Old joke revisited?

[Overzeetop]

So...if you shake it more than three times, does that mean you're playing with it?