Part 0
Foreword of “Random Thoughts” series:
This series will mainly contain thoughts that suddenly come into my mind. like draft or raw material, they are not overly thought-out yet, just recorded for later use.
Part 1
ipad’s soft-keyboard is terrible, after you type on its glass surface for a while, your wrist got ache (’cause you have to hang your wrist to make a right hit).
to solve this problem, maybe we can choose iphone or even some andoid phone as an alternative. just imagine, you put an ipad in front of you, sitting comfortably in your coach, and type on your 3.x inch “keyboard” whenever you need. what an enjoyment!
Part 2
we all know that phones have headphone, so they can be used as ipad’s microphone.
and also, we can easily make it a gaming pad.
so the last input device we need is a mouse, and this is easy for ipt4 and ip4. as they contain a three-axis gyroscope naming “gyro”, the movement of a physical mouse(i don’t mean the cute animal 🙂 ) can be imitated by the movement of an ipt4 or ip4. you can put your an ip4 on a desk or a book ,move and click it like clicking a mouse.
Part 3
so the problem.
1\ how to interconnect ipad and our smart-device? use tcp/ip(the transportation may not be fast enough)? or virtualization?
2\ how to change between these role(keyboard, mouse, gaming pad)? shake it may be a better choice, because change the role when it should be can be too smart, and sometimes make users annoyed.
Part 4
were these be true,
do we still need a potable device with screen of that big? or just leave ipad as a silly display-pad without computing ability(like a PC monitor or a TV, or even replaced by them?)?
Part 5
to solve to first problem in part3, i would try to code a game. were it can be realized, i will try to work out the whole thing.
this simple game should be like this…
there is one(or many) ball rolling on ipad. when you point a place on the ipad, a dashed pane(the same size as ip4) is drawn at your finger point. when the ball running pass this pane, it should be trapped and running inside the pane.
next time, the ball is still running on ipad, you put an ip4 on the ipad. and the running ball should be trapped by ip4 when it pass by the ip4, and running both on the ipad and the ip4.
my thought yard 