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An update from OpenMoko

An update from OpenMoko

Posted Jun 30, 2007 0:39 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: An update from OpenMoko by drag
Parent article: An update from OpenMoko

Yes. The accelerometers are absolutely capable of tracking position on the relevant time-scale, and then you can just wire up the phone as a bluetooth input device to your laptop...

You can actually buy such mice stand-alone now -- they're marketed for presenters, so you can control your powerpoint while standing up at a screen, and by themselves they're already quite expensive.


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An update from OpenMoko

Posted Jul 1, 2007 15:00 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

by themselves they're already quite expensive.

And that's the problem. There are no need for them to be expensive

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