Clearly future OpenMoko phones should be able to perceive their environments.<br><br>Proximity sensor for the face side of an OpenMoko phone. When triggered the OpenMoko can activate a power-savings profile.<br>An accelerometer. The OpenMoko can operate differently depending on its physical orientation.
<br>GPS. The OpenMoko can report on its current location.<br>Microphone. Quieter or Louder audio playback.<br>Light sensor. Dim and Brighten the display depending on ambient light.<br>Bluetooh. The OpenMoko can guesstimate distance to its owner (or other bluetooth devices) as either, for example, near or far based on the signal strength of the BT headset.
<br><br>Each of those sensors could advertise their states over DBus or whatever and some fancy OpenMoko monitor applet could modify the phones behavior accordingly.<br><br>I am not sure how useful it would be to interpret gestures, but pointing could be useful. Someone mentioned geopointing to identify buildings and landmarks, or even bt-enabled people/devices.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"><br><br>On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Crane, Matthew</b> <<a href="mailto:mcrane03@harris.com">mcrane03@harris.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I think it's a fantastic idea too. The motion of putting a phone in your pocket could likely be specific enough to train the phone to turn off. Or it could identify when it is floating loose vs. being held to your ear, to automatically lock.
<br><br>Another application would be monitoring a kids use of their car, combined with the GPS you could guarantee they're driving well!<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org">
community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org">community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org</a>] On Behalf Of Dean Collins<br>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:05 PM<br>To: kkr;
<a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a><br>Subject: RE: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer<br><br>Do a google on Sensiva or check out my blog at <a href="http://www.collins.net.pr/blog">
www.collins.net.pr/blog</a><br>Specifically <a href="http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/sensiva.html">http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/sensiva.html</a><br>and <a href="http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/neat-ui.html">
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/neat-ui.html</a><br><br>You could build some very cool application control in with a good accelerometer, flick your mobile to the left to delete the window you are in or to the right to send a call to voicemail etc.
<br><br>I use the google question mark command on sensiva about 200 times a day and love it.<br><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dean Collins<br>Cognation Pty Ltd<br><a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net">dean@cognation.net</a><br>
+1-212-203-4357 Ph<br>+1-917-207-3420 Mb<br>+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org">community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org</a> [mailto:
<a href="mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org">community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org</a>] On Behalf Of kkr<br>Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 10:42 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org
</a><br>Subject: Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer<br><br>I think the idea is good!<br><br>But why only one?<br><br><br>With one 3-axis accelerometer, we detect a move in the space XYZ: We<br>move our arm.<br>
<br>If we use 3 3-axis accelerometer (one in each angle of a triangle), we<br>can detect more movements: We can detect if the neo turn over himself<br>(with no global XYZ move).<br><br>For exemple, we can detect too, movements as:
<br> 1. a rotation of the hand<br> 2. waves with the hand (not like "hello", but more as "approximately")<br> ...<br><br>Does anybody know more about price and precision of the accelerometers's
<br>chips on the market now?<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br><br><br>Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 à 12:50 +1100, Tehn Yit Chin a écrit :<br>> Not too sure how doable this is, but how about having a 3axis<br>> accelerometer in the 2nd generation of the Neo? This will give us the
<br>> ability to link hand movements as command sets, sort of like mouse<br>> gestures but in a 3d space.<br>><br>> The obvious usage is for 3d gestures command the phone, eg shake the<br>> phone three times to answer when a calls comes in, or move the phone
<br>> in a cross motion to put it into "do not disturb mode".<br>><br>> cheers,<br>> tyc<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenMoko community mailing list<br>>
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