View Single Post
Old 12-16-2008, 02:55 PM   #1172
kacir
Wizard
kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kacir ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kacir's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,463
Karma: 10684861
Join Date: May 2006
Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
Quote:
Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
This is a good suggestion too. I like the idea if an "automatic mechanical" way for the Reader to know how it is being held.
Please make this user configurable (disableable ;-) ). It is a nice effect to show of on your new iPhone, because iPhones are supposed to be used when you are mostly in upright position. I like to read lying in the bed, but not on my back. This tilt switch could quickly become very annoying when trying to read in many comfortable positions.

I have a multi purpose clock / thermometer / kitchen stopwatch from Ikea and it displays different function when you put it into one of 4 positions. The switching is implemented by a simple cheap plastic housing with 8 contact and metal plated little plastic ball. A fancier of such switch model is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_switch . I can imagine use of the actual mercury could nowadays be considered environmentally ... aehm ... questionable.
kacir is offline