Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone (via New York Times) / Oct 2004
In what is definitely our most exciting media coverage yet,
When you think of a public information kiosk, your mental picture might include greasy touch screens, broken trackballs and frozen monitors. But researchers at an Intel-financed lab at Cambridge University have developed a way to replace displays like those with something portable, not to mention personal: a cellphone's built-in camera and screen. They and others plan to use commercially available hardware to turn the camera-equipped cellphone into a mouse, remote control, keyboard and more. -- New York Times
"Instead of having all the hassle of putting things out in the environment that you have to maintain and that people can vandalize, you get a cheap PC, shove it in the back room of your shop and just put posters out front," said Richard Sharp, an Intel researcher here.