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Using the iPhone As a Pointing Device For the Real World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

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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  1. The new iPhone can also be used as a paperweight by derGoldstein · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many of these articles are going to keep making it on /.?
    Last time the iPhone was used to make the cover art of some magazine, which was of course comparable to the moon landing.

    I know that this sounds like trolling, and by some definitions it may be, but I think that even an objective reader (someone who *isn't* sick of hearing how the iPhone cured cancer) would find this particular "article" incredibly pandering.

    If I were *looking* for hype and gimmicks, there's always digg.

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  2. Way to be fashionably late... by pwfffff · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've got to be kidding me.

    They have a video of Wikitude on the G1 already doing all of this crap in an article HYPING THE IPHONE.

    Steve Jobs must have sold his soul to the devil to get his freakishly skilled marketing department.