Using the iPhone As a Pointing Device For the Real World

Zrop writes "With a combination of GPS, Wi-FI-positioning, compass, and accelerometers, the iPhone is turbocharged for location-based services. Combine this with the new 3.0 iPhone OS and interesting things are certainly going to happen. Steve Jobs said that the iPhone will change the world when he presented it back in 2007, and that is exactly what it will do." The bulk of the article is about using the phone as a super real world pointer, which could be really cool if it could be accurate enough to be useful, although not particularly ergonomic. (Are you pointing the screen at something? The camera? The headphone jack?)

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Unless you bitch in all the other threads...

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...about device news, you're trolling. You don't like it because it's Apple, and it's expensive. You're not entirely familiar with the OS it runs, and some douchebag in Starbucks brags about how productive and virus-free he is because he bought "the BMW of computers".

Not all of us Mac users are like that, and the iPhone isn't a Mac at all. It is very well designed; so well so in fact that it inspires people to make these kinds of "discoveries"; we realize these things are not new because we read Slashdot, which is good enough to give us LOTS to read, including news about cutting edge research to make phones into real-life pointing devices. Now that the iPhone is gaining popularity not just with the super-business-savvy Blackberry crowd, or the yet-to-exist-in-significant-numbers-Android crowd, but with everyone, these ideas can be realized en-masse, which is much more exciting, even if the first attempt at it fails.

In the meantime, I'll see you in 2024, when the next moon landing occurs and Skynet takes over, because apparently events of that type of significance are the only thing your narrow mind cares to read about. PS: You can turn off updates regarding Apple, you know. Mod as Flamebait if you will, but the parent in NO WAY deserves +5 Interesting.