MIT Cleans Up Dirty Handhelds
Updated: I should have used the title “MIT Doesn’t Drop the Soap”. Oh well…*sigh*
First the electricity producing shock absorbers, next the smart blocks and now a bar of soap. Those fuckers over at MIT are damned clever huh?
Give a bunch of engineers some accelerometers (thank you Apple and Nintendo) and all of the sudden there is innovation everywhere.
Researchers at MIT have developed a gadget that knows whether you want to use it as a camera or smartphone, just by the way you’re holding it.
Engineers from MIT intend to solve this problem by allowing the device itself to work out what you intend. So, if you hold the device, dubbed the Bar of Soap, out in front of you like a camera it will automatically bring up an LCD viewfinder. However, if you then switch to holding it as you would a mobile phone, it will bring up a touchscreen keypad instead.
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February 19th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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