Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard

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Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 27, 2004 @08:08AM from the well-isn't-that-clever dept.

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 :-)"

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Mirror for some of the videos by stab · 2004-05-27 08:17 · Score: 5, Informative

Since the main site is predictably a bit bogged down, there is also a page at the University of Cambridge Systems Research Group detailing the research side of things. It also has some cool videos :-)
Google Cache by jm92956n · 2004-05-27 08:20 · Score: 3, Informative

Yes, that's the way I like to be clicked.

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Re:ideas by gandalphthegreen · 2004-05-27 08:27 · Score: 3, Informative

flashlight
You apparently haven't seen this.
Re:Astroturf... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-27 08:30 · Score: 1, Informative

Because this was invented at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, in the Systems Research Group. Link
Slashvertisement? by Quixote · 2004-05-27 08:32 · Score: 3, Informative

Submitter: Stab, a.k.a. Anil Madhavapeddy
Story is about HighEnergyMagic, for which WHOIS tells me:
Administrative Contact: Madhavapeddy, Anil anil@recoil.org 100 Carnbrae Avenue Belfast, Northern Ireland BT8 6NH UK +44 7771640674
Story is mirrored at University of Cambridge Systems Research Group, where we find that the page is "© 2004 Anil Madhavapeddy".
Seriously, shouldn't the submitter put some sort of a disclaimer somewhere? Or failing which, at least pay Slashdot to run these "ads", dammit! :)
Re:How quickly is this all done? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-27 09:18 · Score: 1, Informative

> You're probably posting from the US. In Europe, it's almost impossible to buy a cellphone without a camera these days.

I live in the Netherlands and the majority of the cellphones in the shops here don't have a camera. Hell, it's even easy to buy phones without a color screen, let alone without a camera.
SSH on Symbian OS by MoreDruid · 2004-05-27 09:35 · Score: 2, Informative

Here you will find putty for the symbian OS, so your SSH fix is already available. I have it on my nokia 3650. It's a pain to use because you have to type in the commands and with a cellphone keyboard this is absolutely not intuitive but it works.
Why you would want to put a webserver on your phone is beyond me though, the bandwidth technology is still a long way from usable for this kind of thing. Maybe in the future though, but still... what do you want to serve? A live stream from your phone that sitting in your pocket? Wow... a dark screen... that would be cool to watch.
Sure there would be some use for this (live webcast from a convention for instance) but it's more a brag thing than something useful as opposed to an SSH client.

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I've been doing this for a year now by jgarland79 · 2004-05-27 09:39 · Score: 3, Informative

Sailing Clicker does just this. I'm using a 12" Powerbook with built in bluetooth and a Sony Ericson T68i. I can controll the mouse movements with the joystick on the phone.

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