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Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Before it's slashdotted. by fuqqer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Let's hope the webserver isn't on the cell phone they used for the torture test.

    -nonsig- My slashdot UID is high but I have a slashnot.com UID in the 100's.

  2. Site is smoked... by Mz6 · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Note to self: While cell-phones are now about able to do anything these days, don't host a webserver with them as it seems this site did.

    The site was gone even before some of the first posts... sheesh.

    --
    Hmmm.
  3. Videos + /. = ... by Nightreaver · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Some very cool videos available:

    Haha! So they think...

  4. Cellphone as virtual mouse and keyboard by jrumney · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So every time I want to move my pointer on the screen, I wait for my cellphone camera to take a photo and pay my network provider 30p for the MMS message? Nice gimmick, but no thanks. 10p for 160 characters is not quite so bad, but I do find my PC's keyboard much easier to use that the 12 key phonepad, even with predictive text input and both thumbs going flat out.