Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Ed C. wrote:
> 
>> Otherwise it means there's app for turning your smart phone into a
>> burning lens.
> 
> I like that idea.  This makes me wonder -- do any smart phones have
> built-in laser pointers?  I could use that now and then.  Of course
> you'd want it to be definitively inactivated most of the time or
> "eye-phone" could earn a very negative connotation.
> 
> Mike
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Apparently they have had, at least experimentally. Whether it was
visible light for pointing at paper or an activating beam for pointing
at photodiodes or photoresistors isn't clear:

http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/materials/publications/ballagas2005d.pdf

Ed