{"id":94,"date":"2008-01-02T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/02\/mobile-phone-joysticks-get-money-yes-really\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T19:28:00","slug":"mobile-phone-joysticks-get-money-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/mobile-phone-joysticks-get-money-yes-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phone Joysticks get money, yes really!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R3vodmT2_hI\/AAAAAAAABes\/jiiQFfy7E08\/s1600-h\/zeemote+joystick.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:55px;height:124px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R3vodmT2_hI\/AAAAAAAABes\/jiiQFfy7E08\/s320\/zeemote+joystick.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The good folks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/entry\/419-mobile-gaming-joystick-firm-zeetoo-gets-69-million-funding\/\">MoCoNews report<\/a> that Boston-based firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeetoo.net\/\">ZeeToo<\/a> whose business is the production of mobile joysticks (yes, you read that correctly) raised a first round worth a respectable $6.9m. We read that &#8220;the company\u2019s Zeemote controllers communicate with mobiles via Bluetooth, and enable exchange of data and applications with the handsets. The company has also developed other controllers, including a trackball controller for use as a mouse on a mobile phone, an accelerometer based controller for games that are controlled with motion and gestures, and a special car keyfob designed for use in location-based services (LBS) applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that I am rather hesitant to believe in this venture&#8217;s success although I naturally wish them all the very best. At least, respectable mobile game developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finblade.com\/\">Finblade<\/a> (the guys who founded and run IOMO, which was then sold to Infospace) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeetoo.net\/Finblade-video.html\">developed a game<\/a> that is &#8220;powered&#8221; by the controller. However, I am not sure if people will get used to this (&#8220;do I have everything I need? Wallet, keys, phone, errm, joystick?&#8221;), and I must also say that I don&#8217;t think the video in the previous link would appear to entice people into embarking onto that adventure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks from MoCoNews report that Boston-based firm ZeeToo whose business is the production of mobile joysticks (yes, you read that correctly) raised a first round worth a respectable $6.9m. We read that &#8220;the company\u2019s Zeemote controllers communicate with mobiles via Bluetooth, and enable exchange of data and applications with the handsets. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[85,210,327,340,404,746],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bluetooth","tag-finblade","tag-joystick","tag-lbs","tag-mobile-games","tag-zeetoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1w","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}