Wii All Use Phones

I got back last night and figured that you'd appreciate some sort of intelligible post, not just a random word mash-up created by a moderately tipsy and fully exhausted human being. Thusly, the delay.

What I found yesterday was a really neat article on ZDNet about motion-sensors coming to wireless phones. Within all the tech-talk about accelerometers, gyroscopes, and this high-tech "Starbucks" thing that I've been hearing so much lately lies a really cool, and potentially limitless, technology.

You've seen it already in the iPhone's specs: the phone's display will rotate pictures according to the orientation of the phone in space; the display will shut itself off when the phone is lifted to your ear. Meanwhile, people are talking about including this technology to allow people to use their phones as compasses when reading directions, to stabilize the camera lenses -- increasing the quality of your 3 megapixel camera-phone's shots -- and scroll through menus by moving or tilting the phone.

My favourite feature, as useless as it is, is pretty much the most awesome thing I've ever heard of in the mobile world (keep your eyes on this post, dad): the Samsung SCH-S310, available only in Asia since 2005, allows its users to dial by literally drawing out the numbers in the air!