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.

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Slashdotted?

[metlin]

Am getting some weirdo JSP errors.

But here's the Google cache to the rescue.

Re:On the move?

[Siener]

can imagine how annoying it would be to have web pages scroll when you don't want them to scroll just because you were walking too quickly or the car or train you were travelling in provided a less than perfect ride.

RTFA. There is a button you have to "lightly touch" before the scrolling works, so no accidental scrolling because of random movements.

I do however wonder how controlable the scrolling would be in the situations you mention.

Mirror

[soliaus]

Server is a little sluggish, here are a few mirrors. If link one doesnt work, use link 2, its for my faster pipe.

Mirror One - http://spark.ath.cx/mirror/
Mirror Two - http://decompile.us/mirror/

Re:iPAQ

[worthb]

Yes, it was called "Rock 'n' Scroll" and you can read about it here.

Re:On the move?

[ElGanzoLoco]

Did you read the article? Motion control / mirroring only are activated when you have your finger on that particular touch-sensitive button. Release button, motion control deactivates...

It seems to be a quite interesting device... But they say it's "slightly bigger than the P800", so that's a no-no for me :)

Re:iPAQ

[CWCarlson]

...and if you have a Palm device, you can build your own tilt sensor (either as a dongle or installed internally, depending on your model) with the information here.

There's a library for the dongle, a hack to 'map' tilt motions to the hard scroll keys, and a pretty cool game called Mulg (which works even without the sensor).

Re:About the name

[Anonymous Coward]

The old story about self-centered Swedes proves itself again... Origo is a latin word, dumbass.

Tilting pie menus rock!

[SimHacker]

There's an earlier slashdot article about "Gyroscope Gives CellPhones" 'Tilt Control'". Probably not gyroscopes, but actually MEMS accelerometers.

Pie menus are a naturally efficient way to operate a tilt-sensitive user interface. Scrolling up and down through one-dimensional linear menus with a device that can tilt in any directions is a waste of the device's potential.

Here's a cool research paper from Sony's Computer Science Labs, about "tilting pie menus". I love it! I can't wait till all cell phones can sense tilt. Tilt control rocks!

Tilting Operations for Small Screen Computers
By Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc.
More details: Tilting Operations for Small Screen Interfaces (Tech Note)
HTML version from Google

-Don