need someone to develop this....

[heikkis at student.matnat.uio.no]

The reason I said it on a public mailinglist was to ensure that it isnt
patentable. Now, someone give me a free gtav2. ;)

Heikki Soerum.

> This is too perfect. What a cool idea - seriously unfortunately now that
> you've published here is no longer able to be but was worthy of a
> patenting.
>
> Not only could the method of shaking but the timing of shaking could have
> been the key.
>
> Eg hold two devices next to each other and shake them up and down -
> because of the semi-physical connection they would have the same
> accelerometer readings this couldn't be replicated unless you had someone
> 'watching' you move them up and down and was copying the movements within
> the tolerance errors.
>
>
> Regards,
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean at cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: List for OpenMoko community discussion
> Subject: Re: need someone to develop this....
>> If Bob (or Alice) hands his (or her) phone to the other, then if both
>> phones are shaken in the same hand, the acceleration pattern might
>> provide an extremely unique yet similar signature, not unlike exchanging
>> an encryption key.
>>
>> So if you want to establish a trusted relationship with another Neo
>> user, the two phones are shaken together until the software indicates
>> that you have generated a complex enough pattern that has been
>> recognized on the other.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Ian Darwin
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:35 PM
> To: List for OpenMoko community discussion
> Subject: Re: need someone to develop this....
> Michael, this is (I think) brilliant!
>
> We could call it... "the handshake" (OK, anyone who doesn't know why
> that's funny, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshaking).
>
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