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Smartphones That Know When & Where To Move :: Symblogogy
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by Edmund Jenks | May 1, 2007 at 07:00 am
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A new type of technology is making its way to the cellphone platform. The mobile phone has played host to GPS, Cameras, Symbology (barcode) Scanning, Walkie-Talkies, Bluetooth Broadcasting, MP3 Music, and more.
Well, there is a new application in town. It is a technology that comes from the world of video games and it is now being applied to the cellphone. The technology allows the phone to sense motion and gestures which are then interpreted to bring direction motion to the display images on the screen.
We already can imagine how this would be useful in games displayed on the phone, but this technology may be of greater benefit to the user when it allows one to scroll around screen images that are larger than the display screen itself.
With just a flick of the wrist, one can move around scroll menus, maps, photos, web pages designed for computer displays – all without touching the pad keys on the phone.
In the emerging Web 2.0 world of mobility, this technology is a pretty smart move!
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at 07:33 on May 1st, 2007
It's like the DNA of the Wii is getting injected into mobile phones... A few upcoming smartphones are using this to conserve power- switching off the screen when it senses proximity to the side of one's head. The true ease-of-use app for this, as you say, is allowing the user to scroll images and sites larger than two square inches.
I also like that Kim Possible/Aeon Flux cartoony pic. It also has elements of Men in Black: "Look into the red light, please..."