Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet

Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet 64

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @01:14PM from the I-mostly-use-gravity-instead dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from MAKE's blog: "Tangible interface designer and inventor Andrea Bianchi, along with his colleague, Ian Oakley (University of Madeira / Carnegie Mellon Europe), have come with a novel approach to interacting with a mobile device. Using the magnetometer built into most modern smartphones, Bianchi and Oakley have created a series of tangible user interface demonstrations that go beyond what's achievable with capacitive touch displays."

Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet

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It's 2012 (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @01:18PM (#41819787)

And we still don't know how they work...

Re:Prior Art (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @01:27PM (#41819939)

Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.

Re:It's 2012 (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @02:52PM (#41820993)

Some clowns will never understand :)

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