I often wonder if anyone actually reads my stuff so its nice to hear people are.

Funny my daughter has Nintendogs but never spotted that. Probably cos she got bored and plays Mario Karts most of the time.

Don’t worry I following your blog closely (as you can guess from my slides)

As for the blowing interface, Nintendogs on the NintendoDS also uses the microphone: you can blow and create bubbles for your dog.

The talk looked good I would have liked to have attended it. The work on blowing is very interesting I hadn’t seen this project but had seen that Nintendo have something similar as part of the Warioware Games for the DS (which I think is one of the most innovative commercial games packages). In terms of the pedometer the accelerometers I used on the Nokia 5500 have been used for this by Nokia for their sports application which you could use for your offline gaming project. I very much agree about differing interfaces I have been going back to the camera recently and looking into tracking algorithms. The link below gives a flavour

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/view_entry.html?id=450