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Posted by hipstomp | 9 Apr 2007
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Recently, some of the more clever observers fitting human needs to existing technologies have not been industrial designers, but hackers. Last year we started seeing the first hacks that turned your computer's webcam into a motion detector; some hacks even enabled it to automatically snap a picture of someone using your computer while you were away.
Now IT consultant Jesse David Hollington has gone a step further, by getting his computer to recognize when he, specifically, is around and acting accordingly:
As an IT Consultant, I am frequently working in various locations at different clients' sites, and it's nice to have my Powerbook secure itself when I'm away from the machine. In addition, my other objectives are to keep the OS X Address Book application connected and to iSync my phone whenever it moves back within proximity of my machine.
How does he do it? Through Bluetooth proximity detection; he's rigged his computer to recognize when his phone (and therefore him) are nearby, and perform the appropriate actions. Get the applescripts to do this yourself here.
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This actually goes back (at least) to the work done at Olivetti's Research Lab in Cambridge, UK. The lab is now owned by ATT. ORL was responsible for a couple of very significant pieces of code; the ubiquitous VNC, for Virtual Network Computing (a sort of free, open-source PC Anywhere; if you've ever seen Goto My PC you have seen a knockoff of the ORL original) - and the Active Badge project. Active Badge was a concept very much like the Bluetooth proximity ideas here - your radio badge would identify you as 'you' and any local computing resource would have your 'home' desktop available, like a puppy that follows you around the office. Besides this coolness, of course, Olivetti was design-cool back in the early James Bond era. Miss Moneypenny used Olivetti typewriters exclusively.
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Salling Clicker has a nice proximity sensor feature, along with bluetooth remote control and many third party extensions (search macupdate or versiontracker). Mac + PC. http://www.salling.com/Clicker/