Mobile controller concept fits like a ... sleeve?
by Kyle Orland 
{ Mar 30th 2007 at 2:15PM }
Tired of tapping at tiny, ergonomically suspect buttons to play your favorite mobile phone games? How about putting on a sleeve and flexing your muscles instead?
Last September, mobile developer Arto Holopainen posted about a proof-of-conept case study for using two sets of EKG sensors to control a Snake game via muscle flexing. Now, Holopainen has expanded the concept with a wearable sleeve that translates flexes into standard mobile phone commands.
Holopainen sees the device being used for muscle rehabilitation or as an aid to disabled phone users, but we can't stop picturing a subway car full of hapless passengers flailing about to control their games of Bejeweled. Better yet, maybe someone will adapt the device for a line of specially-designed bodybuilding games. Who has the rights to the Lou Ferrigno license?
[Update: Fixed typo in Holopainen's name. Thanks Hakobus.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hakobus @ Mar 30th 2007 2:35PM
Btw, it's Holopainen, not Holopanien.
estee @ Mar 30th 2007 3:15PM
wait what
Blizz4l9 @ Mar 30th 2007 3:16PM
this looks incredibly retarded for cell phone gaming.
rowd149 @ Mar 30th 2007 6:54PM
Looks like a cool idea, but I don't think that me and my hyug3 b1c3ptz will be able to fit in that.
Mr.Wednesday @ Mar 31st 2007 7:02AM
I like the concept... except its for MOBILE GAMING?? WTF? It would be cooler if it were something to use with the Wii or something... I dont want to flex my biceps just to play on my mobile phone...
GManiac @ Apr 2nd 2007 3:45AM
If you read the blog entry to the end (https://blogs.forum.nokia.com/view_entry.html?id=440), you'll see that the "sleeve" works as normal PC-joystick as well not only mobile gaming. Neat, isn't it?