HiJacking the iPhone's Headset Port 96
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Soulskill
from the universal-mod-slot dept.
from the universal-mod-slot dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Michigan describe how to hijack the iPhone's headset port to power peripherals, establish bi-directional communications with them, and interface various sensors, all without jailbreaking your iPhone or having to pay thousands to access to the Apple Dock Connector. This makes it possible for students, hackers, and DIYers to extend the phone's functionality to the physical world. The team is giving away 20 HiJack modules/programmers to enable new apps."
Re:This is a modem (Score:4, Insightful)
I think their idea of driving one of the audio channels at 22Khz, and converting that to DC for (a tiny amount of) power, is darned clever! This is "Hacking" in it's purest form! You are working completely within the parameters of the existing hardware, and yet doing stuff the original designers never intended. Bravo for creativity and inventiveness!
To borrow from Mr Spock; "Fascinating."
Re:Question: (Score:3, Insightful)
"Back button"
In all my use on the iPhone, I'm not sure this has ever been needed? I'm not even sure where you would use a back button besides in Safari and it already has one.
USB (Score:5, Insightful)