Coming Soon: the Feng Shui Phone, courtesy of Motorola
Motorola have finally come up with something more original than simply giving their existing phones a new paint job. They've patented a way of "evaluating locations according to Feng Shui prinicples" using a mobile phone! Using a combination of GPS receiver, digital camera, 3D hall-effect sensor and other features, the phone will apparently be able to work out how harmonious your home is according to the utter guff guiding principles of Feng Shui.
Anyone waiting for such a phone may be disapointed, though. Motorola aren't necessarily working on this phone right now - they've just patented the idea. With Motorola's current handsets about 3 years behind everyone else in terms of features, there's no way the technology required for such a device will appear on a Mototola phone any time soon. And with Motorola being granted the patent, no-one else can build the phone either. But really, would anyone want to? Is a patent on a crap idea really necessary?!
For those interested, the technology Motorola think they need for Feng Shui evaluation is:
- Three-dimensional Hall-effect sensor for measuring the strength of electromagnetic fields and to form a compass to determine the geographic direction in which the main wall of the house faces.
- Digital camera to determine color saturation, order and balance of the surroundings.
- GPS receiver to determine geographic location of the phone.
- The coordinates are then sent to the GIS databse through wireless network to to get the information about the surroundings of the location, e.g. the distance from the undesirable sites such as major airports, landfills, and factories.
- Cellphone microphone is used to measure noise level of the location.
- AM/FM radio to measure the AM and FM transmission strength and the distance form nearest AM/FM towers.
- The table with the chi values of each parameter is stored in phones memory and is used for calculation of chi values of different parameters.
Rumours of the Sony Ericsson dowsing phone, the Nokia crystal-healing phone and the Samsung one-born-every-minute phone are unconfirmed.
[Source: UnwiredView]
