| type="text/javascript"> | | | | morphs into a PDA, etc. It even morphs into a phone. |
| Nowadays just about all mobile phones combine a | | | | This strange looking phone has two display screens, |
| whole host of functions such as telephone, MP3 | | | | one on each side. It also has a number of |
| player, camera, games console, GPS receiver, internet | | | | accelerometers built into it and seventy two sensors |
| browser etc. Putting all these together can be a little | | | | around its periphery. These sensors follow the |
| confusing and lead to complicated operating systems | | | | movement of the user's fingers. As everybody is |
| and menu structures. | | | | different the device has to learn from its owner |
| Enter the new phone, if you want to call it a phone. | | | | exactly what is expected of it when it is held in a |
| In fact you could call it any of the things that it does, | | | | certain way. Although it has some basic patterns built |
| for it will essentially morph into any one of them | | | | in, until it is trained it only gets it right about three |
| depending on how you hold it. Point it at something | | | | quarters of the time, but when it has been trained it |
| and it will turn into a camera, pick it up another way | | | | knows what it is expected to do about 95% of the |
| and it is a games controller, handle it differently and it | | | | time. |