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“Now, maybe you’d like to quibble and claim the idea of putting an accelerometer in a hand-held device is non-obvious. I think it was pretty obvious, myself, and doing that goes to the group working on Project Mercury. I don’t remember any patent being filed there. And having done so, it seemed obvious to hook it up to the screen. I know we did not file any patents. Are either of these ideas worth a patent? Personally, I think both ideas are pretty obvious, the first idea more original than the second. But I’m sure the first handheld device with touch screen, with accelerometer, rotating the screen under control of that accelerometer was in my hand running my code below, sometime in the year 2000 or 2001 (I haven’t tried to excavate the exact date), and that it was widely published on the Internet and used by hundreds of people.” 
18:04 (Source: digitalvanity) TEDxBerlin - Fabian Hemmert - 11/30/09 (via TEDxTalks) “So what we have seen are three ways to make the digital graspable for us - and I think making it physical is a good way to do that. What’s behind that is a postulation, namely not that humans should get much more technical in the future rather that technology a bit more human.” |
