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Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet

Posted by timothy on 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."

2 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. It's 2012 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And we still don't know how they work...

  2. Re:Suggest apps to try this with? by MozeeToby · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://play.google.com/store/search?q=compass :-)