Gabriel White writes via Dean Bubley who comments on the iPhone motion sensors and thinks about how motion and context can be tied together.
“The coolest thing about the iPhone isn’t the multitouch screen or the industrial design, it’s the motion sensor. No, the iPhone isn’t alone – the Nokia 5500 has one too (“Nokia plans to introduce other phones that use 3D-motion-sensor technology in the near future”), and I’ve seen references on the web to some others – in particular, it wouldn’t surprise me if some local-only Japanese or Korean devices have them. Then of course there’s the Nintendo Wii as well.
I’ve seen quite a few references to motion sensors being used to recognise someone’s walking pattern. The suggestion is to use this as an anti-theft “locking” function – someone half-inches your dog & bone, and the tea leaf’s different gait alerts the phone to prompt you for a password. ”
Link: Motion sensors – the next big thing in mobile phones? (disruptivewireless.blogspot.com)
Source: SmallSurfaces
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