Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard

stab writes "Check this out! High Energy Magic have announced a public beta of software to let you use your camera-phone as a physical mouse by just pointing and clicking and rotating it in the air. Some very cool videos available: check out the volume control and flight booking ones in particular! The tags used are really robust - they did a wastebasket torture test for a bit of fun as well :-)"

Mirror for some of the videos

[stab]

Since the main site is predictably a bit bogged down, there is also a page at the University of Cambridge Systems Research Group [cam.ac.uk] detailing the research side of things. It also has some cool videos :-)

Google Cache

[jm92956n]

Yes, that's the way I like to be clicked. [216.239.41.104]

Re:ideas

[gandalphthegreen]

flashlight

You apparently haven't seen this [sonyericsson.com].

Re:Astroturf...

[Anonymous Coward]

Because this was invented at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, in the Systems Research Group. Link [cam.ac.uk]

Slashvertisement?

[Quixote]

Submitter: Stab [slashdot.org], a.k.a. Anil Madhavapeddy
Story is about HighEnergyMagic [highenergymagic.com], for which WHOIS tells me:

Administrative Contact:
Madhavapeddy, Anil [e-mail]
100 Carnbrae Avenue
Belfast, Northern Ireland BT8 6NH
UK
[phone]

Story is mirrored at University of Cambridge Systems Research Group [cam.ac.uk], where we find that the page is "© 2004 Anil Madhavapeddy".

Seriously, shouldn't the submitter put some sort of a disclaimer somewhere? Or failing which, at least pay Slashdot to run these "ads", dammit! :)

Re:How quickly is this all done?

[Anonymous Coward]

> You're probably posting from the US. In Europe, it's almost impossible to buy a cellphone without a camera these days.

I live in the Netherlands and the majority of the cellphones in the shops here don't have a camera. Hell, it's even easy to buy phones without a color screen, let alone without a camera.

SSH on Symbian OS

[MoreDruid]

Here [sourceforge.net] you will find putty for the symbian OS, so your SSH fix is already available. I have it on my nokia 3650. It's a pain to use because you have to type in the commands and with a cellphone keyboard this is absolutely not intuitive but it works.

Why you would want to put a webserver on your phone is beyond me though, the bandwidth technology is still a long way from usable for this kind of thing. Maybe in the future though, but still... what do you want to serve? A live stream from your phone that sitting in your pocket? Wow... a dark screen... that would be cool to watch.

Sure there would be some use for this (live webcast from a convention for instance) but it's more a brag thing than something useful as opposed to an SSH client.

I've been doing this for a year now

[jgarland79]

Sailing Clicker [mac.com] does just this. I'm using a 12" Powerbook with built in bluetooth and a Sony Ericson T68i. I can controll the mouse movements with the joystick on the phone.