There’s this guy that’s some kind of webcam review guru. He’s also apparently a cowboy. He devotes part of his website to trying to figure out the lens angles of popular webcams. It looks like a few creative and Logitech cams offer a fairly wide angle. Check out the site to figure out which one [...]
Archive for the ‘Mobile Devices’ Category
The Wide Angle Lens Cowboy
March 27, 2008
Fire Eagle Knows Where You Are!
March 6, 2008
I wrote a post on my blog about the newly announced and released (in beta) Fire Eagle from Yahoo. It’s provides APIs for storing and retrieving location based data for multiple applications. Check it out.
MyBlogLog Adds Bluetooth Tracking
March 4, 2008
Yahoo seems to be doing some interesting stuff with Bluetooth tracking and MyBlogLog. They’re using a java applet to poll which bluetooth devices are nearby, and figuring out who you encounter often. I think there was a study done using this kind of technique earlier, but I can’t remember who did it.
In this context, privacy [...]
Article Summary: (Ballagas et al, 2005)
February 11, 2008
Sweep and Point & Shoot: Phonecam-Based
Interactions for Large Public Displays – Ballagas, Rohs, Sheridan, 2005
http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/res/papers/Sweep-PointShoot-CHI2005.pdf
This article explores two different methods of interacting with large public displays. The first method involves tagging each area on the display with a visual code (something similar to QR codes), which they call “point and shoot”. The other [...]
People as Traffic Sensors
February 11, 2008
Via Digg, I read this article about Nokia harvesting data from Berkeley students and GPS-enabled phones:
Each student car was issued a Nokia N95 phone with GPS and special traffic-monitoring software developed by Nokia’s Palo Alto, Calif.-based research lab–plus a Bluetooth headset. As the students drove the freeway, the phone sent data about each car’s speed [...]
