PhonePoint Pen could be the basis of future note-taking apps if this research project from Duke University students comes off.
PhonePoint Pen is an experimental new system for capturing gestures made with a mobile phone. While motion-sensing apps are nothing new, this is the first we have seen that actually lets you write letters in the air that your phone can read and understand.
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All the leading mobile phone firms are gearing up to load their next gen handsets with advanced motion sensor technology, according to sources in the Far East.
The DigiTimes says that Apple, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, LG, Samsung and Motorola are all expected to include MEMS gyroscopes in 2009. What’s that, we hear you cry. Well, it’s the same tech that will feature in Nintendo’s ultra-sensitive Wii MotionPlus device, enabling gamers’ real time actions to be rendered identically on-screen.
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