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When I saw this video on Engadget, I simply had to take a step back away from the keyboard, go to the bathroom, look at myself in the mirror and punch myself in the face. You’re looking at PhonePoint Pen, an application written by Sandip Agrawal, Ionut Constandache, Shravan Gaonkar and Romit Roy Choudhury at Duke University. These bright young lads are in Duke’s University Computer Science program, which according to their admissions page, runs around $53,390 without textbooks.
I can’t think of a better example of the disconnect between academia and the real world. We all know gesture based controls will be one of the many ways we’re going to interact with the world around us. With more and more smartphones shipping with accelerometers, and even compasses, we’re all going to be walking around with Wii controllers in our pockets that will allow us to manipulate stuff on digital displays and interact with real world objects.
Writing my name in the air however? You’re in university for fucks sake! You’re supposed to be drinking a 12 pack of the Bud Lite and writing your name in urine on the bed of the sorority girl you just contracted syphilis from.
Fail.
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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