Re: Motion senstive laptop

Motion sensors have been in IBM and Apple notebooks for years now.
There's an open-source lib for the Mac that was later used to control  
the screen orientation and even games. Here's the lib, FYI:
http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams/ams.html

Also, the iPhone should be able to change screen orientation when you  
rotate the device.

Finally, Nokia has motion sensors in a mobile phone already on the  
market and even released an SDK:
http://trasatti.blogspot.com/2007/01/iphone-unique-motion-sensor.html

Looks like motion sensors are going to be an active part of the  
future handhelds.

- Andrea

Il giorno 01/mag/07, alle ore 16:54, Smith, Kevin, VF-Group ha scritto:

>
> Of interest: the BBC reports on a motion-sensitive laptop at
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6609245.stm , the idea being  
> that
> speed and direction of screen tilt can be detected and used to move
> cursors, change focus, scroll pages etc. . Unlike the Wii, it is the
> screen that tilts, and not a detached controller. Not clear whether it
> is in itself an input mechanism or simply a pointing/scrolling etc
> mechanism, I guess that depends on application context.
>
> Cheers
> Kevin
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:13:07 UTC