Mobile Phone as Input Device

Now, this is a great idea. High Energy Magic released a public beta version of its software called SpotCode platform that will enable your bluetooth mobile phone with a video camera to act as an input device for a PC. Being a laptop user myself, I can definitely use something like this to rid the external mouse which I carry with my laptop at all times. There's one problem though. What would happen if you were using your cell phone as a mouse and someone calls you at the same time? My cell phone has the loudspeaker function so I guess I could use the phone to click and talk at the same time. The company's SpotCode page has some videos demonstrating how the phone works. Be sure to check them out.

Personally, I think it would be a lot easier for Nokia to have a talk with Logitech to create a bluetooth enabled (or via plain RF) phone with optical mouse capability.

High Energy Magic
Spotcode Software
(picture from High Energy Magic, story via Slashdot)