Wiimote + Cell Phone = Profit
We’re at coffee tonight and we’re talking about the craziness that is patents. It occurs to us that many of the patents are just the same old technology, but on a cellphone or wireless network of some sort. This is obviously silly for many reasons, mostly that putting something on wireless these days is trivial… and that cellphones are essentially computers. So it stands to reason, if companies in the US can get away with filling this sort of patents… and defending them. Well, obviously there is money to be made by just… making patents up with various applicable technologies. So I present to you, our first prior art claim to… the motion gesture interface to cellphones.
Basically imagine a remote control for the Nintendo Wii strapped to a cell phone. We’re working on a very functional prototype where you can receive, end, transfer and dial. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say you could make some custom gestures for whatever your needs are. Maybe as an additional patent, make it so the motion sensing part is some sort of removable wand. We’ll see people driving around with “NO” hand once this catches on! SWEET!
Remember, you saw it here first (well actually you read it hear first, but perhaps I’ll post a photo for your amusement later on).
