Microsoft Develops “Tech Twist” Portable Technology
April 24, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Microsoft
With such ingenuity as the rumble pad, the motion-sensitive Wiimote, the touch screen, and ultra light devices, Microsoft is naming a new project that brings the Force into gadgets. Imagine your laptop, phone or PDA to be a pice of thin cardboard which you can “sort of” bend around. The hand gestures shown above are some of the common calisthenics we like to perform on such devices — pulling and pushing and slightly bending a cut piece of cardboard results in effects that are determined by the laws of physics.
Now imagine the same thing on a device with a big screen where Microsoft calculates a “virtual force” that can expand browser windows, minimize browsers or even twist them. The possibilities are endless, as you read this short white paper on the new technology of “The Force.”
[sourced at OhGizmo | White Paper PDF Source for Image]
Windows Mobile 7 and motion sensitive wonderment!
January 7, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apps, Microsoft, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Monitor, Multimedia, Windows Mobile
So you’ve always wanted to be Darth Vader. You’ve probably done this several times - walk up to a motion sensitive door and flick your hand as the glass door slides open. Well, Windows Mobile 7 does exactly that. No, not open doors - but the built in camera does more than take your photos. The camera is motion sensitive, allowing you to make simple hand gestures to execute a few basic commands.
This is rather interesting as the iPhone as well as other phone manufacturers are slowly taking the accelerometer route ala Nintendo Wii. Windows Mobile is begging to do something different. It’s too early to say anything now - remember the critics that put down the Wii’s motion sensitive concept - they may be eating their words.
Read more about this development here.
