Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet 64
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."
Video Link (Score:2, Informative)
The video in case it gets /.'ed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BDqOXpkDoQ4 [youtube.com]
Re:Suggest apps to try this with? (Score:5, Informative)
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=compass [google.com] :-)