Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone?

Barence writes "Researchers at MIT have developed a gadget that knows whether you want to use it as a camera or smartphone, just by the way you're holding it. So, if you hold the device, dubbed the Bar of Soap, out in front of you like a camera it will automatically bring up an LCD viewfinder. However, if you then switch to holding it as you would a mobile phone, it will bring up a touchscreen keypad instead. The Bar of Soap utilises a three-axis accelerometer and 72 surface sensors to track the position of the user's fingers and its position."

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[Locke2005]

Yes, we know this is going to seriously impede the expansion of your collection of up-skirt pics, but it is all in the name of progress, ok? This is but a single step in the long development of a true "Do-what-I-want-not-what-I-say" user interface. Perhaps you can re-program it to switch to camera mode when the camera lens is pointing straight up...