Mobile accessories

It seems like everytime you need a extra functionality in your phone is hasn’t been invented yet, but at the same time thinking of new accesories for a mobile device seems to be like a almos imposible task! Every idea I could think of is already in the market, either as an app, or as an accesory.

But them waht happens to all those great ideas we have for great accesories?

Android has come with a solution to bring the accessories development closer. Using Arduino an other low cost hardware pieces and the Android Open Accessory Kit (ADK), now developers and amateurs can develop their own custome made accessorires.

There are some really good projects out there, here is a cool example of many functionallieties using a Motorola Xoom tablet:

For more information an how to get started here are some usefull links:

• Android Open Accessory Development Kit: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html
• Android Source: http://source.android.com/
• Arduino: http://store.arduino.cc/ww/

Thanks fo reading,

Diana

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The Future

Projection

Use of projection to create multiplayer/social environment where all connected users will be able to see others projections through video conferencing is a possibility.

Augmented reality

Augmented reality is the future. We can look forward to true location awareness. We can also expect a range of devices offering AR replacements for traditional methods of human input, ranging from projected keyboards and touchpads to eye-controlling your phone and accessory via a heads-up display while playing. AR is also likely to fill the void between 2D projection and holographic, allowing users to conference and work in a CG environment, sharing information and tools and interacting via virtual controls and workspaces.

Laser based displays

MEMS (microelectromechanical systems)-based laser projectors can display images directly on our retinas while not blocking our sight, enabling mixed reality vision. The beauty is that it is so small that it can already be integrated into eyeglasses.

Brain waves sensing

We need to control the functions by the mind to become really hands free.  Aided by eye tracking, direct brain links will provide touch-less input.

 

Asif

Innovative Hardware Accessories

Mobile Accessories Club – Innovative new hardware accessories.

I have looked at market innovations and what endless combinations of products and technology that can make our lives easier and more fun in the mobile world. There are lots of cool mobile accessories that are changing the look at our mobile phones today. A cool retro handset that attached as an external handset to reduce brain exposure to the radiation emitted from the device.

http://www.mymac.com/2010/08/yubz-retro/

The iPhone Horn.
A small horn that amplifies the audio coming from your device without drawing extra power and also becomes a stand to hold your mobile.

http://ismashphone.com/2011/05/accessory-spotter-noteworthy-idevice-accessories-for-may-2nd-2011.html

A sensor for Chemical tests pluged directly into you mobile.

Nasa has developed a sensor for testing chemical compounds. Using 16 nanosensors to detect the concentration of gasses like ammonia, chlorine, and methane.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/nasa-turnes-iphone-into-chemical-sensor-can-an-app-store-reject/

What do I think is the future of Mobile accessories?

In researching the topic of mobile accessories I found amazing ways that individuals are creating their own accessories. Two years ago iOS 3, the External Accessory Framework, allowed developers in the MFI program to build external hardware that can connect directly into the iPhone and just this past May the Andriod Accessory (API) and Developement kit (ADI) has be released for applications to communicate with peripherals via USB.

I dug a little deeper and found a group from the University of Michigan developing and selling kits to let other developers to allow them to use the headphone jack on the iphone to create cubic-inch sensor peripherals that interact with their iPhones. They have created some simple protoypes but this opens up the possibilities of what we can do with our mobile phones.

Health care could benefit from these external sensors being used to monitor patient health 24 hours a day. Doctors could monitor Chronic diseases with a sensory mobile accessory with the added functionality of it connecting with an app that then monitors and collects the patients vitals. Not only could they monitor patients data and it could be sent directly to your doctor, or your data could be exported to cloud based health service that could be accessed by health care professionals anywhere.

Glucose monitoring meters attached to your iPhone are already being developed and protoyped right now.

But back in the realm of the developer we can start creating and using analog devices like temperature sensors, moisture sensors, humidity sensor without an external power source today.

I found this amazing tutorial on how to start making your own accessories….
http://rawrwarbear.com/2011/08/21/hijack-in-the-box-part-1/

Here is a link to buy the kit to get started…
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/hijack-development-pack-p-865.html

I’m on the waiting list… but I have an Arduino to work on while I wait!

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Lindsay

IMM-Mobile Accessory

Now a days, Mobile has become more than an object to communicate with others. It can be a Music Player, Game console etc. So we can say it is a object which makes our life easier in our day to day life.

So there’s a question for all of us: How can we make it more useful rather than what mobile companies are giving us? So answer for this comes into play by MOBILE ACCESSORIES or its better to say Interactive Mobile Accessories.

What can that be?

So here’s what this group is for. We are trying to invent something that makes our life more easier.

We are looking for people interested in technology and specially in mobile devices.

What accessories will make their life easier, more productive or funnier?

Meet us Tuesday November 22 @ noon in the Learning Commons of Sheridan College at Trafalgar Campus.

From my research and studies, I came to know that mobile phone cases and other accessories making our phone look crispy are still in use but by the time passes we are getting more inclined towards how to make our phone more useful. So now comes External Mobile Accessories. These are the things that run on different small platforms most likely ” Adruino”  . But the technology is going more further as Apple launches its iOS Development Kit. In return Google patched up with Adruino.

We can very well say its going to be a tug of war between mobile companies and their accessories in upcoming time.

By:

Yatharth