39 month ago
plasticbag : Nintendo Revolution Controller Unveiled, And It's Revolutionary - Mr Webb will be please - haptic interfaces, accelerometers and the like make it unlike any other controller on the market. Game interfaces are up for experimentation for the first time in years and it's all nintendo's fault...
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46 month ago
jkottke : Using bumptunes and the Powerbook's new accelerometer to control iTunes playback - "You rock the machine backwards for the next track, and rock it forwards for the previous track." Could use the same technique for "rapid-fire email filing (tilt right to delete, left to keep, like you're driving through time through y
deusx : apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected) - "I feel kind of indignant, like my laptop is wilfully ignoring me. It seems inert, a lump of metal deliberately cutting itself off from the rest of the universe. A deaf, dead machine."
Andy Baio : Bumptunes - tilt your Powerbook to control music playback [via] [via]
plasticbag : Mr Webb's tapping into Powerbook accelerometers - And using the whole machine as an interface for controlling iTunes
Simon Willison : Controlling iTunes by rocking your PowerBook - Cunning Python/AppleScript hack that interfaces with the new motion detector. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected) - You rock the machine backwards for the next track, and rock it forwards for the previous track
Matthew M. Boedicker : innovative uses for the accelerometer in Powerbooks
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plasticbag : Foot-based mobile interaction with games - Intriguing one this, and really up there in the embodied interaction stakes I guess. Putting bits of yourself into the game. Blurring digital and real. Intriguing.
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