Hello
I know, I´m not the first, whos asking, but I believe, somebody here in this forum can DO it!
There is a BIG need for a possibility to reverse/flip/mirror the display of android-smartphones & tablets horizontally – no matter which app is running.
People like their own, individual HUD!
Especial tablets are perfect for this – no matter what kind of information people like to see or what kind of navigation software they use.
Good commercial HUD are very expensive, are fixed in 1 car and it is NOT possible to be free what you see.
All HUD-Apps, commercial as well, are the same. Okay, they are free or cheap, but they do NOT show what people like to see or integrate navigation someone like and so on.
Especial tablets are big enough to show navigation but other things as well like speed, or …
COME ON!
Someone here at this board can make it and would be (as far as I know) worldwide the first!
Many people would love and use and donate this innovation.
Please tell me you got it ...
Best regards from Germany …
Martin
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HTC have recently been give FCC approval for their latest innovation, the Falcon, but will it live up to expectations? So far very little information has reached the public domain regarding the features of this little gem, but there does seem to be a drizzle comming from somewhere. Whether it be just rumours, or journalists making assumptions remains to be seen, but the feeling I'm getting is that there will be a mixture of excitement and disappointment when this device finally reaches the market.
In my opinion the manufacturer of both devices, the XDA and the Falcon, made a bad judgement call when putting together the spec. Ok, I'm not going to bad mouth the phone that we all love, but I know that a lot of people believe it could have been so much more. You see, they made the assumption that because the XDA intgrates a phone with a PDA it should be a compromise of the two. The problem is, that someone who has bought an XDA would have probably (eventually) bought a PDA anyway, but they'd have got a really good one - or when they buy a phone, it's a really top notch one.
So what do we know about the Falcon? So far very little. We know it uses CDMA networks (3G) and has a built in GPS reciever - these should certainly be well recieved by the XDA community. We also know that it has a voice memo button - so no need to scramble though the menus when you remember the name of that CD you wanted to buy. That's about it.
Many sites are publishing a limited spec sheet for the falcon, and while incomplete, they seem to be suggesting a lack of further improvements. A disappointing 32Mb of RAM, lack of SDIO, a 4096 colour screen, and none of the really useful extras like consumer IR or a built in camera. The biggest kick in the balls, still, is the lack of any WLAN device - they really want you to use those expensive data networks even from your own armchair.
At last we are getting a PDA phone with 3G functionality, although without the video phone. This is something that has been long awaited and will be welcomed. Unfortunately, the customer waiting for the serious PDA combined with a serious phone may have a long time to wait. Perhaps they just can't fit it all in the box yet.
My two pence...
Isn't it so that the iPaq is also build by HTC? In that case I can imagine that Compaq never would allow HTC to create a superior device next to their iPaq. HTC would be crazy to put the deal with Compaq at risk so the XDA is just HTC's leftover technologie, the real goodies are developed for the iPaq.
What is called for then is an Ipaq, with in built GPS, GSM, GPRS, and CDMA!!
Hi people, what's up?
I want to do some research for a class in my school about the most common gestures made while we're using android phones and etc. Do any of you know any app that could do that for me? It basically needs to track finger movement continuously and store it somewhat, like a heatmap for example.
I've looking for it at the market and all over the internet, there are a bunch of information about how I can implement it at my app but what I need is tracking and recording these movements across all the apps, including the homescreen and etc.
As it's for a student research, the cheaper as possible, please!
Thanks for everything, and sorry for my bad english. You guys rocks!
I'd be interested in this as well. I'm an user experience designer. There are a couple of eye tracking solutions for mobile devices using Tobii Studio but they are upwards of 20k, plus it's for tracking eyes and not fingers.
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Nice to know there are other people on this boat. I'm a digital design high school student with a great focus on user experience as well!
Let me know if you have any news about this. Eye tracking are pretty common because it's used a lot in feedback studies but it amazes me the difficulty to find something touch-related, this kind of interaction is so hyped nowadays..
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Guys you can go through "common floor retina" over internet or on YouTube may be it can help you.
Hi guys! I just made a power point presentation for my research paper i had to do for my studies. Just wanted to share some of my experiences and stuff you have to look out for
So first of all, check out what connections are available to you, you can buy any hdmi cable if your projector supports that. The place where i study has been stupid and went for VGA instead (probably was cheaper?) so you need an adapter from micro HDMI to VGA if you want to use your prime.
I bought the official one from a local online shop. Works perfectly.
So next important thing i found out about: there is no Android App available atm that supports MS office PPT animations. So if you made a slide with 3 points and set them to appear on after another by click, on your tablet it will just show one slide with all points on it.
An easy way to work around that is to make copies of your slides each with an additional point. The result will look exactly the same. Oh and no one likes those fancy fly in animations anyway, they only distract people
Finally what app to use? The prime comes with a pretty capable office app called Polaris. It would be the best as you can simply tap on the left or right side of the screen to go to the next slide. Unfortunately i couldnt get a full screen view with that app. When i open the presentation mode it shrinks the screen and your actual presentation only fills about 3/4 of the screen and there is this ugly blue bar in the bottom (see screenshot, 2nd one is with QuickofficeHD). I hope that gets fixed in a future version! This also happens when you create the presenation directly with the app so i havnt found a workaround for that.
What I ended up using is Quickoffice Pro HD. It has a nice full screen view that fills the screen and you can switch slides by swiping the screen. It also has an autoplay feature for those who want to use that. Make sure to disable it when you launch the presentation because its enabled by default.
Be prepared to fix some text alignment issues once you copied your presentation to you tablet. I had some problems with lists and tabstops, but it was a quick fix.
Also Android doesnt like the Calibri font. Letters are far too close to each other, so make sure to use Arial (which is what i used) or test out your font beforehand.
Cheers and wish me luck its this Wednesday. I guess at this point its still simpler to use your laptop for more lavish stuff. But who wants to use laptops?
good informative post and good luck on Wednesday. you gave me the idea to look for an adapter for HDMI to AV to hook prime up to older t.v.'s also.
This demonstrates one of the reasons why an Android tablet doesn't replace a notebook for everyone. I use animations in my presentations as well, and the trick of making extra slides wouldn't work for me (our animations are quite complex, and really need the usual animation function to work). I'd love an Office-compatible suite that supported more advanced functions like this, or really ANY advanced functions.
wynand32 said:
This demonstrates one of the reasons why an Android tablet doesn't replace a notebook for everyone. I use animations in my presentations as well, and the trick of making extra slides wouldn't work for me (our animations are quite complex, and really need the usual animation function to work). I'd love an Office-compatible suite that supported more advanced functions like this, or really ANY advanced functions.
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I'm pretty sure it'll come eventually Its just a software thing, and remember Android Tablets have only come out one year ago (i think the xoom came in late February). These office apps get updated constantly, so its just a matter of time.
But as of now, an Android tablet is not good for very complex presentations. For my needs its perfectly fine though. Really looking forward to how people will react when i only have this thing lying on the table and swiping around on it
wynand32 said:
This demonstrates one of the reasons why an Android tablet doesn't replace a notebook for everyone. I use animations in my presentations as well, and the trick of making extra slides wouldn't work for me (our animations are quite complex, and really need the usual animation function to work). I'd love an Office-compatible suite that supported more advanced functions like this, or really ANY advanced functions.
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Everyone hates Powerpoint animations. Even if they lie and say that they were cute or funny, really everybody hates them.
To put it another way, it is very rare that an animation enhances the information being shown. In general (99% of the time) animations are just a distraction or added in as a "cool" effect to spice up a boring presentation.
This is part of the reason I use .PDF for all of my presentations instead of Powerpoint, even though most people in the company use Powerpoint.
Off-meeting reading (like for people who had to miss the meeting, and who REALLY hate animations) and over-all device compatibility (every phone, tablet, PC, Mac, etc can read .pdf) are the other reasons. Plus Adobe Acrobat is intended for designers (like me) so it is easier to make a NICE looking presentation.
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Everyone hates Powerpoint animations. Even if they lie and say that they were cute or funny, really everybody hates them.
To put it another way, it is very rare that an animation enhances the information being shown. In general (99% of the time) animations are just a distraction or added in as a "cool" effect to spice up a boring presentation.
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You're preaching to the choir... I just wish my bosses would understand that.
Thanks !
Just a quick shoutout to say thanks for doing the mini-review. I have my own presentation due in a few weeks and I found you insights helpful.
Cheers!
Did you try using a VNC to access powerpoint for the presentation? I am curious if you would be able to use the full screen presentation mode and how the quality would be.
If there was wi-fi available, you could try using Onlive Desktop next time...
www.desktop.onlive.com
I'm DEFINITELY using this when I get a tablet...
If there was wifi i would use Splashtop Remote desktop, but i wont be having wifi there
Onlive looks ok, but they havnt released it in europe and i'm pretty sure they dont have servers here either. Seems to be pretty laggy for me.
First of all, I know what a Q is as I was watching the presentation. My actual question is, what Google wants the NQ be? It seems like another expensive experiment initiated by them and to ask everyone the jump, contribute and to work out a solution. The only difference between this time and Google TV is that this thing is beautiful on its own and people will be relative less picky regarding its function.
The fiction that ElGoog is offering is extremely limited and its accompanying hardware is too much of an overkill to only serve this function. Could this be the first step of GoogleTV's sneaky penetration to stylish households or the first piece of puzzle of the grand [email protected] initiative?
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I think that the big idea behind the Q, is the ability to share the control with everyone around it, what i think is pretty cool
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First of all, I know what a Q is as I was watching the presentation. My actual question is, what Google wants the NQ be? It seems like another expensive experiment initiated by them and to ask everyone the jump, contribute and to work out a solution. The only difference between this time and Google TV is that this thing is beautiful on its own and people will be relative less picky regarding its function.
The fiction that ElGoog is offering is extremely limited and its accompanying hardware is too much of an overkill to only serve this function. Could this be the first step of GoogleTV's sneaky penetration to stylish households or the first piece of puzzle of the grand [email protected] initiative?
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I received a Nexus Q at Google IO, and personally, it's not a piece of equipment that I would purchase with my own money. It seems like it does too little for too much.
The concept, however, is very cool. The fact that you can just stream from all of your friends' libraries is exciting. When cloud based media storage becomes the absolute norm, Nexus Q will probably take a more indispensable niche in people's households. Until then, it seems slightly ahead of its time.
I think the answer to your last question is yes; I can definitely see Google making more advances to Androidify more electronics and traditional furniture.
Does it works via NFC?
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Does it works via NFC?
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Only to initialize the communications, ie, shake hands. Further communication is through wifi from your phone to the Q(either wifi or ethernet).
Ideally, I would like to be able to broadcast any display (if we're dreaming, any section of any display) to any other display.
I can do that fairly well from Apple's iOS or MacOSX to an AppleTV. But, I can't go iOS to MacOSx and vice versa. I can't go from any mac device to pc. Pc to PC might be possible, but it's clunky. Android to PC - I dont know of a way. Same vice versa. I know I can use iTunes on my pc and Remote on either Android or Apple to turn it on and off and that seems to be an excellent way to manage your music system especially with iTunes Match and AppleTV.
But, if you want to teach it's hard to do that if people have to look over your shoulder. I would like to buy a couple devices, like two Nexus 7's, and be able to grab any information / control my pcs with it, kind of as a repository or to do any difficult processes with either device as well as being able to get either device send stuff back and forth.
It doesn't need to be complicated, either. Apple pretty well has the right idea. Pull (or up) a control menu of some kind, press one button and then choose the destination to start broadcasting your display. When you do that, the other device automatically starts displaying it. Since it's only on your home network we can presume you will only be able to send your displays to devices you are also on the network for. Tunnelling into other networks might be a way to connect multiple homes together...but I digress...
A display is a display. A keyboard is a keyboard. There is no reason, other than $, to build a screen that only works on one computer. Even if one computer runs Android and one runs iOS and one MacOSX and one Windows 7, just like java can have an environment in any of them (iOS?), surely you could build a way for them to send and display whatever is on the screen.
Technically, it should be very possible. There just needs to be the will.
A long time ago they thought one computer in every home would be an achievement. I'm thinking the average person is going to have, or at least have access to, a LOT of screens. It would be nice if you could actually manipulate those things. Toss this movie on one screen, toss that document on that tablet, pass that animation to a desktop screen. Use the cloud computing to keep everything connected. The last thing is processing power...to be able to have a home desktop do all your heavy lifting (ie: rendering crysis 2) and then all your other devices need to be able to do is download fast enough to display at a reasonable fps and the other device capable of sending. That's already possible on Apple. Google is already starting down that road with the Nexus Q. Logmein has already started on the cloud aspect. There are probably lots of little projects that will work for a while then fizzle out in the light of something better.
And typing on a keyboard is still infinitely better than typing on any screen or tiny keypad or weird device. A keyboard that you can specifically point at any device to control it with would be awesome. You'd just need one nice keyboard in your entire house and if you wanted to type onto your Nexus 7 or your iPad or your Nexus Prime or iPhone or Windows 7 pc -- you would just 'point' (not literally) that keyboard at the device you intend. Maybe with those neural attenuators you might be able to use slight muscle movement and maybe with a magnetometer you could also tell which way you were facing and with the location of all objects in the room you would literally just need to look toward something and it would display on a device.
Oh, like if you had something called Google Glass -- you would look at a screen and with a few commands select the screen you want and then whatever it is you want to display. Cloud servers could do the heavy processing and then stream your word processor or whatever software you like onto whatever screen you have. That way you could use Sony Vegas on your big screen tv or your iPad because it would actually be running on a remote server somewhere else and all you would need is to broadcast at a reasonable framerate.
We are literally on the verge of that being widely possible with the average man's bandwidth. Then, it doesn't matter how intensive the application is. All you need is a device that can display that stream and all the ramping up and down of processing power would be done on the servers -- computers specifically designed to be extremely efficient and powerful at central processing or graphical processing, etc.
Ideally, everyone should have their home desktops being these power computer stations. That way you would be responsible for maintaining your own cloud and worst case scenario if anything ever happened youw ould still own your files, and applications, etc. Using public cloud services like Dropbox or iCloud are convenient, but do you really want to completely take all storage and computing power out of your hands and put them into some giant conglomerate that you have no control over?
Yes, it would be more efficient but I think that's kind of like saying the world would be safer if only one army could buy, build or use any weapons. Maybe...but it would also be ripe for oppression.
Balance is the key to life.
Yes, I realize this post kind of went all over the place. Sorry about that. I still think the idea is neat.
There is some progress towards what you are talking off. There is an app in the store that enables your Android device to act as a second monitor for your PC/mac
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idisplay.virtualscreen&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5pZGlzcGxheS52aXJ0dWFsc2NyZWVuIl0.
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There is some progress towards what you are talking off. There is an app in the store that enables your Android device to act as a second monitor for your PC/mac
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idisplay.virtualscreen&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5pZGlzcGxheS52aXJ0dWFsc2NyZWVuIl0.
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That's cool, but shows how far we've yet to go. We'll all be old before this really unfolds. But, there's something fun about looking at the future and seeing what is yet to come before it does. The computer revolution probably will not slow in our lifetime. Maybe not for a thousand years. I don't know of any theoretical way all the computers of star trek couldn't exist and do at least everything it did in the series. Or minority report. Or 1984.
Space travel, on the other hand, is almost always impossible no matter how simple they try to make the concept. Maybe one day, sure, but unlike computer and software advances, I don't think it's as sure of a thing. I think it takes a LOT of energy and there's more empty space and dead worlds than living ones. A living world takes perfect balance. A dead world takes anything else.
It's more likely and almost certain that one day humanity is going to have to face the threat of the androids(ie: the terminator), cyborgs(deus ex), genetically engineered super humans(and you thought doping at the olympics was bad), or some combination of those. It certainly could exist. It wo:laugh:uld require mapping out the human brain and learning so that we can rewire it. We've already unlocked the genetic code. We already use computers to model protein folding and unfolding. We can already induce or suppress regions of the brain with magnetic induction. There's probably a way to communicate directly with the brain directly as a computer like in the matrix. In a hundred years we could have the computing power to unfold an entire brain. An entire human.
Imagine that -- you put in your DNA and the program literally 'grows' you. You see yourself live and die in the program on accelerated speed. Atom for atom, true to life. Virtual you. Every neuron firing, every muscle growing..all those countless atoms making molecules making cells making organs making you, or him, or her, or them... All ran in a virtual environment at accelerated speeds. Hundreds of them born then die to see if they have any problems with their genes. If you have a super computer that can literally simulate a thousand people atom for atom...are you creating life and are you torturing them? Does a computer program feel pain?
And when they do this, they can cut out the code for one protein and replace it with another and see how that changes things. Simulation after simulation -- like with combinatorial chemistry, they could just throw down every permutation and see which one out competes (out lives in this case) the others. You would just throw all kinds of random variations of DNA in the program and grow one person, then ad ifferent one, then a different one...until you finally find the one that works really well. That one looks like the universal soldier -- so you grow it for real. Sequence the DNA, and fertilize an egg with it and then let nature do it's thing.
And if your computer can keep up with this it can also record this data....so it remembers what does what. If you need to improve your arm strength it can start using what it knows to search for genetic code that might improve things. So, instead of guessing random with brute force hoping for the best, you can guess random but select certain choices first because you have a feeling they might offer better results.
It's not like you're going to throw this information away, either. So each successive generation will have a larger library to work through, a greater understanding, and better tools. They can genetically engineer humans to be even stronger, healthier, happier, faster, smarter, and even more obedient and accepting of social groups. It's only limited by what the universe allows...which is pretty unlimited for our scope.
And if one day we write a programming language and build a computer that can interface with people. Real people. So that we can hack a person and program their brain to do anything, be anything...be anyone. What will become of us then? It's not like the lack of will exists -- what do you think billions of dollars are invested into advertising and marketing every year for? And do you think there are control freaks in the world?
It sounds like a silly question today but one day it will be the only question.
If a Djinni appeared and said, "I will grant you unlimited wishes with which to change yourself", who would you become? Who would we all become?