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Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard
stab writes "Check this out! High Energy Magic have announced a public beta of software to let you use your camera-phone as a physical mouse by just pointing and clicking and rotating it in the air. Some very cool videos available: check out the volume control and flight booking ones in particular! The tags used are really robust - they did a wastebasket torture test for a bit of fun as well :-)"
Some very cool videos available
Heh. Not anymore, they aren't.
-Ryan, with the unoriginal sig
how the hell are we supposed to have a discussion about something we can't even read about?
Since when has reading the article been a requirement to post authoritatively on Slashdot about it?
...how the hell are we supposed to have a discussion about something we can't even read about?
:)
The same way we have discussions when no one's read TFA regardless of availability?
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...when we show you how to take pictures of your family using an optical mouse!
Actually, this is pretty cool - nice idea. No need to carry around a mouse for your laptop (if you hate the touchpad), just use your cellphone! Simple and smart.
It's just a ploy by someone who secretly hates the people who did it. They have the site /.'ed and then laugh when the persons computer melts!
How to Speak Leet
Eliminate beer Goggles! Picture the scene: you're at a bar, gettin' close to closing time. The chick you've been talking to is lookin' pretty good, but all your friend's have abandoned you.
Whip out the phone, take a pic of the broad. Phone flashes green if she's good, Red if she's not.
That would have saved me uh...i mean...yeah...
Most folk'll never lose a toe, and then again some folk'll...
a multimeter...
lots of times I needed a damn multimeter and I looket to the cell phone and imagined it could have a pair of probes...
at least a AC/DC voltmeter up to 300V...
Now I can finally live my dream of never having to touch anything in public ever again. I can use my cell phone to book my flights, control my computer, and open doors! I won't ever have to come into contact with Evil Germs ever again!
Raging in an online forum won't do anything for the world around you. To see change, you must take action.
Dont have a phone call while your using your new mouse. Sure let me see whats playing tonight. One second (scruffing sound) Sorry about the but my phone is also my mouse.
War isn't about who's right. It's about who's left.
Now how will you (pretend to) listen to your gf/boss when ur actually surfing ;)
Striving to be common....
Striving to be common...
Did u try rebooting it?
That's the same line the Mormons use to justify polygamy.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
what else can we turn cell phone in to ? I'd like to have web server and ssh installed on it too, wash the dishes, flashlight...
You can't install all this on a cell phone. Because, if you do, you can't call it a cell phone, you'd have to call it EMACS.
Try cat /dev/mouse and see what comes out.
They've already put their domain up for sale!
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.