[Geowanking] the iPhone discussion

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

So I bet you guys have already seen this: 
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/08/jeff_han_on_ted.html

Does not look far away from being realistic

Gayathri
Kevin Elliott wrote:
> Anselm Hook wrote:
>> it would be fun to exploit the multi-touch for example or the 
>> accelerometer; or to rotate a map view, do spinny globes with local 
>> caching like worldwind, or to do time sequenced data (rolling a time 
>> dial back and forth) or to show thousands of points, polygons or 
>> other dynamic features at once, or to do offline or p2p composition 
>> and resynch to the net only periodically; do cellstumbling, port say 
>> legacy games like mame to use the accelerometer or gps if any etc...  
>> even if not ubiquitous its pretty clear the iphone will already 
>> dominate and so it seems worthwhile to write to it...
>
> Yeah, great ideas. I like the applications for the Mac Book Pro that 
> take advantage of the accelerometer and light sensors. For example, 
> being able to switch virtual desktops with VirtueDesktops by tapping 
> the laptop is actually somewhat useful. Kludgey, but useful. Or the 
> hack where you can hook a RooTooth up to a Roomba, and control/steer 
> your robot vacuum with a Mac Book Pro by tilting it. Pretty nifty. 
> Again, hacky and not entirely useful, but at some point with enough 
> experimentation we can identify new ways to interface to technology.
>
> Kevin
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