Shoogle

Here's something else that's cool. Shoogle is a system for generating tactile and auditory feedback regarding the state of a handheld device. The user shakes the device and it feels and sounds like there are objects rattling around inside. The objects can be a metaphor for waiting messages, or battery power remaining, etc.

Bar of Soap

This is cool.

Despite being similarly to soap device talked about in class, this is something else entirely.

The basic idea is to determine a user's intent by how they hold the device. So, if the user holds it like a phone, it would go into phone mode, etc.

I can't really think of anything to elaborate on that. It sounds like a cool opportunity for some machine learning.