Have you ever needed to write a message but just couldn’t, because your hands were too occupied, or you were driving? Two Duke University scientists (Ionut Constandache and Sandip Agrawal) have developed a piece of software that makes use of the phone’s accelerometers (it’s probably an iPhone) to let you just draw the letters in the air with the phone and write your text message.
Neat, isn’t it? Still, I don’t think this will work in an accelerating car, unless they filter out that information, too (it has to be on the 2-dimensional vertical scale).
Ever wondered why you have so many gadgets near you, each one of them serving to something unique and totally useful? When you have to use your phone, you have to keep it near, if you use the remote, you have to occupy the other hand, and so on. I know, it may sound natural doing all this, but haven’t you ever thought of a universal remote control with phone, video camera and who knows what other device in it? Sounds interesting, huh?