Accelerom­e­ters are not new tech­nol­ogy since they have been around in sev­eral devices. Apple Mac­Book just to make one well known example.20080124N95.jpg

Since the launch of the iPhone it seems that every mobile phone man­u­fac­turer has gone wild with this technology.

You can also find one in the Nokia N95 and Nokia has recently released the Accelerom­e­ter SDK that allows devel­op­ers to use this lit­tle piece of hard­ware in their own application.

As it always hap­pens cre­ative peo­ple have started to lever­age this tech­nol­ogy to develop new applications.

It is the case of NiiMee Mouse and NiiMee Wheel that will trans­form your Nokia N95 in a mouse for your Per­sonal Com­puter and in a wheel for your hard core video games need.

As I can read from their web site NiiMee Wheel and NiiMee Mouse have been devel­oped by Asier Arranz.

You may have a look at two video of these appli­ca­tions by click­ing here.

Great idea and per­fect sam­ple of uncon­ven­tional innovation.

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Unconventional Use Of Your Mobile Phone Accelerometer

2 Comments

  • 1 Patrick wrote:

    And so I won­der, what is your opin­ion about this. Does this have a real future, or does it stay a hack?

    IMHO these projects could be embry­onic forms of phys­i­cal com­put­ing (http://​en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​P​h​y​s​i​c​a​l​_​c​o​m​p​u​t​ing) and may fun­da­men­tally change the dic­tio­nary of inter­ac­tion design as we cur­rently use.

    January 25, 2008 at 9:39 am Permalink
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    2 AG wrote:

    I def­i­nitely think this is the future. A lot of rev­o­lu­tion­ary things start as a hack and then go mainstream.

    As always the power of the mobile phone is that is almost always with you and if it will be able to inter­act with the phys­i­cal world more than today it will really open a new era in inter­ac­tion design.

    We prob­a­bly should start study­ing this right now if we want to be there.

    Btw, thanks for the com­ment :-)

    January 25, 2008 at 10:54 am Permalink

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