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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. Retail 2.0 is the next big thing(TM) by saddino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Traditional revenue models for pushing consumers to retail are beginning to show their age esp. in their transition to mobile, but app developers are already exploring location-based delivery of coupons and promotions that can be scanned at point of sale (e.g. on the iPhone: CardStar, Coupon Sherpa). Things are changing fast and the consumer, as usual, is poised to win.

  2. Re:that's why by geekboy642 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good, you probably got the last one. Stupid GM's stupid bankruptcy. MY FAVORITE (CHEAP) CAR!

    Yeah, I know, offtopic. I'll take my beating.

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  3. Re:that's why by YourExperiment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Off topic? That's a paddlin'.