With BlindType you can just pick up your iPhone and type, there’s no need to carefully watch the screen to make sure you press each key directly in the center. To enforce the fact that where you type on the screen is not that important you can actually turn off the keyboard and type directly onto the note. The technology can also track the angle that you type and automatically correct for that.
Dave Phipps has taken his iPod Touch and is now controlling his 1969 Pontiac GTO with it. He can open the doors, the windows and even open the roof! Watch the video below to get the full effect.
This is not exactly a Apple phone hack since there is no iPhone in the mix. But have a look at the wall in the picture. If you are thinking that it looks just like a huge iPhone you are right. This kitchen computer was inspired by the iPhone UI. Now all your electronic interactions can be Apple like all day long.
“We are still tweaking the IU and adding and removing applications as we find a need for them but as of writing this article we have the following applications displayed on the iphone themed main screen
- Kitchen Database (uses barcode scanner to manage our shopping)
- To Do List (simple RSS based to do list)
- Google (opens a browser to google search)
- Email (Microsoft outlook, but its not really that suitable for touch screen)
- Weather (opens weatherview32 for our local weather station)
- Slideshow (activates windows slideshow of our digital camera)
- Cooking Timer (runs kitchen timer)
- Calendar (inititaltes outlook calendar)
- Tweet Adder (dodgy twitter marketing software)
- Twitter (opens twitter)
- Scoreboard (HTML page showing followers on our twitter accounts)
- Watch TV (runs up the USB TV tuner taking a feed from the lounge)
- Calculator (windows calculator)
- Google Maps (opens a browser and displays Google maps)
- Skype (opens Skype for talking to my mum)
- iTunes (apple iTunes with airport express connected)
- Shutdown PC (runs a shutdown script)
- File Explorer (opens windows file explorer)
- Trade Me (opens trademe in a browser, similar to eBay)
- Settings (another HTML page with various links to settings)”