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I'm thinking they're using both your phone and computer's location + timing of accelerometer activation and spacebar hit to identify the phone and computer being bumped together.
Very neat.
Anyway, very cool and I could actually see a use for this, sending photos of whiteboards to colleagues that don't run Mac/have an iPhone. Would have to compete with email/dropbox for ease of use, but it does seem very simple on the receiving end, just surfing to a web page.
Might be less than optimal compared to something like iCloud, but it's a pretty awesome example of technology that looks like magic. I'm thinking they're using both your phone and computer's location + timing of accelerometer activation and spacebar hit to identify the phone and computer being bumped together. Very neat.
This is a gimmick. On the other hand the whole app is a workaround for the neutered iPhone communication stack. Uploading something to a server just to share it with someone standing near you is ridiculous.
You mean like chat or email?
Terribly inefficient.
Might be less than optimal compared to something like iCloud, but it's a pretty awesome example of technology that looks like magic. I'm thinking they're using both your phone and computer's location + timing of accelerometer activation and spacebar hit to identify the phone and computer being bumped together. Very neat.
Space bar triggers POST (content:{"category":"Bump","action":"NoMatch","time":1334124838.48,"client_id":"a7g47710-e991-721f-8bb6-ea4013a22fb6","session_id":"1509c654180344aea5660a0349b0caaf"}).
This just very cool in a very nerdy sort of way. I kinda wish it was less gimmicky, on the other hand I assume bump uses the time stamps of the shake and the key down to figure out which two devices are trying to talk. I wonder what the threshold for collision is? Anyway, very cool and I could actually see a use for this, sending photos of whiteboards to colleagues that don't run Mac/have an iPhone. Would have to com…