application idea

Baxter Kylie baxter.kylie at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 22:53:48 CEST 2007


Actually, current temperature should be able to be picked up from the
touchscreen if, that is, the touchscreen is heat sensitive. I have
another touchscreen device with some customized firmware on it that
can tell me the temperature based on what the average temp of the
screen is. Doesn't even require bandwidth. :)

Regards,
~BK


On 9/12/07, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
> I think he means weather to be.
>
> Though seriously I think that people aren't really pushing the
> usefulness limits of what can be done with 'permanent tethered
> connections'. Most are just repurposing existing apps - think more
> pervasive guys.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-
> > bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy
> > Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2007 4:39 PM
> > To: List for OpenMoko community discussion
> > Subject: Re: application idea
> >
> > Eh...  why would you need to know the current weather if your already
> > there, looking at it?
> >
> > Jeff Andros wrote:
> > > Last night, while I was looking at the monsoon blowing just outside
> > > the heat-island... in my open-top jeep... I had an application idea:
> > > GPS based weather feeds.
> > >
> > > on a schedule/when you move into a new area, the phone will go out
> to
> > > a server and retrieve the weather information for the area you're
> in.
> > >
> > > being able to glance at the today screen and see up-to-date weather
> > > data would be nice
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jeff
> > > O|||||||O
> > >
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