Phil Zakielarz, who was a student at France Telecom’s Boston Labs showed his gestural phone a few minutes ago. Basically, he’s mounted an accelerometer and microcontroller on a cellphone, and written some browser based Java code to respond to those gestures. It was cool. Jump to a movie website, and then tilt the phone from side to side to scroll through the available listings.
Phil got a lot of applause when he flipped the phone over, and showed the duct tape holding the added electronics on to the phone.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
