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Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:14AM from the I-mostly-use-gravity-instead dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from MAKE's blog: "Tangible interface designer and inventor Andrea Bianchi, along with his colleague, Ian Oakley (University of Madeira / Carnegie Mellon Europe), have come with a novel approach to interacting with a mobile device. Using the magnetometer built into most modern smartphones, Bianchi and Oakley have created a series of tangible user interface demonstrations that go beyond what's achievable with capacitive touch displays."

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It's 2012 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 05:18 · Score: 3, Funny

And we still don't know how they work...
1. Re:It's 2012 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 06:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Some clowns will never understand :)
Re:Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 05:27 · Score: 1, Funny

Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.