Siri: techno iPhone inspires hackers - IV

Here's a more fun, but also more technical Siri. A developer has come, first tinkering with an electronic piano, capable of playing at a distance, but also to program Siri to be able to play the piano with an iPhone 4S. The piano? 

A Yamaha Disklavier is capable of recognizing a piece sent by the iPhone 4S as a MIDI file, via an Airport Express. 

The developer who designed this "hack" of Siri even added the "Play it again," to replay the song on request. The great art!

Siri: techno iPhone inspires hackers - III

To read the RSS feed

A developer, especially lazy, Siri has changed for it to read the latest information. Responding under the moniker @ JailbreakMatrix, however, he had to go through a jailbroken iPhone 4S to achieve this. But the result is impressive. In his demonstration, the developer asks Siri to read her latest headlines from Engadget, which appears in their RSS feeds. Siri obeyed the voice of robot we know it.

It's not all @ JailbreakMatrix also diverted the Apple Remote to control iTunes. He asked the software to start some music, it runs.

Siri: a technology that inspires iPhone hackers - II

Order a room thermostat

Siri can be seen as a gimmick, but here's a use that could be handy, especially for perennial chilly. A few days after the crack of the application by the French team of Applidium, an American developer calling themselves Plamon unveiled SiriProxy, a proxy server at any point similar to the voice server used by Apple to Siri. Once activated, it automatically connects Siri to offer new orders. Plamon first example, the ability to adjust the thermostat from room to room using the voice command software from Apple.

Siri: a technology that inspires iPhone hackers

Introduction

Siri is the only feature exclusive to the iPhone 4S. Still in development at Apple, the application remains the very best in the field of speech recognition on mobile. If the Cupertino company has amused some answers to slip crispy, the U.S. company did not, as usual, opened its software developers. Result: they have seized to push the possibilities of Siri.

Bodyguard 9xi-HD01, the arm adopts an iPod / iPhone dock

In July, we talked about the famous gauntlet, or rather, the armed wing called the Bodyguard 9xi. This is an enhancement of self-defense has some features worthy of a superhero. The firm has ArmStar to update its armed with the prototype Bodyguard 9xi-HD01. The accessory from almost on the same basis as the Bodyguard 9xi, but differs from it in that it integrates a dock for iPod and iPhone. Both devices can be stored and loaded, while being protected on the arm. A new snowshoers who displease the gauntlet as the other loads between an electric deterrent system, a laser pointer and a device that generates an arc of electricity around the arm.