There’s An App For That? I can’t believe it’s only been seven years since the iPhone was first introduced by Steve Jobs in 2007 and only four years since Jobs introduced the iPad. Since then, hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads have been sold, and dozens of other types…
And The Winner Is………. At the beginning of this series, I wondered if the impressive array of sensors in the new iPhone rendered it “smarter” than the average plant, at least when it came to sensing and responding to its surroundings. A summary of my comparison is shown in the…
Why They Call It A “Smartphone” Arguably, the new iPhone 4 is the most advanced smartphone currently available. But is the iPhone 4 so smart that it’s actually smarter than the average flowering plant? (At least when it comes to sensing and responding to its environment.) This is the question…
3D Motion Sensing – iPhone Versus Plant If an iPhone can sense its surroundings better than a plant can, does that make the iPhone more “intelligent”? To try to answer this question, in previous posts, I compared the iPhone’s light and proximity sensors and the geomagnetic sensor to the equivalent…
Is the iPhone 4 More Aware of Its Surroundings Than a Typical Plant? That’s the question that I posed in my previous post. Because of the array of sophisticated sensors included in the new iPhone, could this inanimate object actually be better at sensing its environment than a living plant?…
Is the New iPhone More Aware of Its Environment Than a Typical Flowering Plant? Today I was watching a bit of Steve Jobs’ recent WWDC keynote address introducing the newest iPhone. (Click on image below to view part of his presentation.) About half way through his talk, Steve enumerates the…