Crowdflow traces wants 880 iPhones in Europe on the map

You have dreams of becoming a digital Firefly, flitting back and forth across Europe? Helps with the people of Crowdflow, dass-- everything, what you need to do is to use your iPhone, and accept a share-alike attitude. With location, the team has created data from 880 iPhones, a videovertretung iPhone movement across Europe for the month of April, 2011. This brilliant digital Ballet is only a start, jedoch-- Crowdflow is iPhone users to extract questions and send their own location logs are distributed to build a Visual map of how cellular networks around the world. If you are afraid not of your spatial data to an open database funding, you hit the source link for your own chance in the Crowdflow of eerie join cellular Bill.

Apple wants patent for 3D and ' physics metaphor ' gesture controls

Deep in the sluggish bowels of the USPTO is a folder full of Apple patent applications especially for gesture controls. A few were made more pages only public of this growing Tome, and the concepts are dug out certainly thought tuning. The first a proximity sensor in addition to the touch panel includes the use of gestures in 3D to register. For example, you could mark the corners of a triangle on the screen to three fingers and then "drag" and pinching to create a pyramid for use in a CAD application. The second idea includes gestures based on intuitive "Physics metaphors", are recognized with motion sensors. Instead of navigation, the user could so you organize the files you want on the phone screen menus to start a file transfer between an iPhone and iPad and then pretend "they casting on Tablet-an idea that reminds pretty funky project Blox". Make Oh, we just Cupertino Attorney twitch?