Motion-Activated Headphones

Wow! it feels very nice to blog after a long time. I had been busy the last 1.5 months both at work and off work. At work, its the usual boring stuff. Off work, I had a wonderful vacation for 2 weeks roaming all over(not really) the country. I had visited some places which I always yearned to go. And...Even more wonderful thing is hapenning in my life. I am getting married!. So, busy for obvious reasons. Just wanted to share this with the world :). Lets come to the topic...

Sony Ericsson launched earphones with an interesting feature. To stop/pause the music you do not need to press any buttons. The control is done based on some gestures. To start playing the music, just put both the earphone in the ear. To stop playing the music, just remove them from the ear. To pause the music, just remove one of the earphones. This earphones are meant for mobile phones. So, one can attend a phone call by removing one of the earphone. This particular gesture might not be good because you will not get to put both the earphones while talking on phone. Hopefully, this is configurable. See this link and/or the following video.

HTC Diamond: Rotate the phone to lock and unlock

HTC Diamond is one the new mobile handsets from HTC. Few people are aware the HTC is the actual manufracturer behind popular brands like O2, Imate, Dopod etc. Now HTC has entered the market directly. It is brining out interesting models with innovative new features. The cube technology in the HTC touch is a challenger for iphone. Though I personally am not impressed with the cube feature, its pretty good. It does not have multi touch capability. May be I am biased because I am an iphone user. 

Anyway, coming to the main point, the new model of HTC touch which is named "Diamond", has a host of interesting features. Its fast. Its supports touch gestures (but still single touch). One of the features that I feel stands out of the lot is the way the screen can be locked and unlocked. You just rotate the phone to lock the screen. You rotate the phone on the other direction to unlock the screen. May be time taking but vey different. See this video for a demonstration