NeuScreen - genius at work

[slitchfield]

Mobitubia developer Sittiphol is a ruddy genius. A genius. Not that his new project NeuScreen is terribly practical - you'll have to watch the video on his Forum Nokia submission to see what I mean. Essentially he turns a humble Nokia N95 into a full-size classroom-style Smart Board, armed with some sticky tape, a film negative, two light pens and a big TV. Jaw droppingly impressive, if incredibly niche!

Read on in the full article.

[krisse]

That is just INCREDIBLY clever. He's turned a non-touch phone into a phone with a wall-sized touchscreen.

You'd never think of doing this, yet there it is, it works, and it doesn't require any expensive equipment except the phone itself and a television set.

Not much of news here lately. Nothing really exiting is going on? Most of these stuff appeared a weeks ago on sites like into mobile or symbian freaks?

that looks incredible

[krisse]

Not much of news here lately. Most of these stuff appeared a weeks ago on sites like into mobile or symbian freaks?

The story linked to in this item was posted today, it's brand new.

I think you're confusing this with the older "multitouch" project done by the same person some time ago.

[viipottaja]

Ok, I have no clue how that works (cannot understand what the heck he is saying at least not trhough my laptop tinny speaker). Nokia needs to hire that NOW!! Or preferably yesterday.

Do you guys have the link to his older project? Have not seen it either.

[Rafe]

On the FN Blog - http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/si...n95-multitouch

[ajck]

>You'd never think of doing this,

Erm...not true. This project IS very clever, and congrats to the developer. However, lots of people have been aware of Johnny Lee's Wiimote project. If you like the stuff above, you should definitely check out the Wiimote stuff.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Works with whiteboard not just TV screen.

The key thing is Lee makes available the source code, and Wiimotes are bluetooth. You could (and I would have, if I'd had time away from other projects!) port Lee's code to Symbian (would Python on S60 be capable?), use BT to read the Wiimote (should be easy?), and hook up the N95's TV out to a standard digital projector onto a white surface. No one has done this yet (I think?) and I thought of it immediately upon seeing Lee's stuff a couple of months ago. No need for a PC as Lee's demo requires. Someone in the comments on the page you link to above alludes to this. Anyway, that's a project waiting to happen - Lee's system is more advanced than NeuTouch (good though it is).

Alex
phonething.com

ajck, did you already see NeuScreen already? NeuTouch was his older project but NeuScreen is the new one.

In my opinion, I think that Sittiphol's solution is better the your idea to interface WiiMote with N95. Now, everything operated on one N95 and no more special device need. So why we have to add WiiMote to this project?

Moreover, I believe that you can't port Lee's code to Symbian easily. May be I can say that it's VERY HARD since Win32 architecture and Symbian architecture are quite different.

In conclusion, great idea you have but I think that it's impossible to do.

[bills2north]

Ok, ok. It´s really great. Now a question..

Can I use E90 as a remote/pen with an N93?

Hats off for the great work. Better make a patent before Nokia gets it!

Everyone have a great mid-summmer

-Bill

[Sergey Zak]

This reminded me of the old gaming consoles with the pistol, where you could shoot the screen. The pistol contained a sensor, a circuitry connected with the TV string and frame transformers' H and V sync signals, so it could decipher the string number and the offset where you shoot to, and thus recalculate this into x and y for the console.
Now if only NOKIA would want to take this lil' project up and create a Wild West gaming experience...or the prairie dog shooting game...or a Robin Hood game...and let N-Gage catch up with Wii

Amazing work!