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Motion Controlled Smartphone Previewed

Posted by simoniker on from the wave-friends-off dept.

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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  1. Slashdotted? by metlin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Am getting some weirdo JSP errors.

    But here's the Google cache to the rescue.

  2. Re:On the move? by Siener · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.

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  3. Mirror by soliaus · · Score: 3, Informative
    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/

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  4. Re:iPAQ by worthb · · Score: 3, Informative

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

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  5. Re:iPAQ by CWCarlson · · Score: 3, Informative
    ...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).