[JustUhThought]

I want... 1) a thicker phone, so I can grab it without the grip feeling precarious, and because it has a super-sized battery that easily lasts ll day and all night. 2) 2 cameras, yes, but specifically for depth perception, because omg all the amazing programs I could write! 3) waterproof, cause I like pulling my phone out in the rain and I'm a klutz.

[dman]

Yep on phones and laptops both the thinness trend has gone too far. Battery life and thermals both suffer because of this. Would prefer a slight correction towards thicker phones / laptops that run longer and cooler.

[gkya]

That's become a race, so we're mostly hopeless.

[ashark]

> 1) a thicker phone, so I can grab it without the grip feeling precarious, and because it has a super-sized battery that easily lasts ll day and all night.

I'm dreading the day my lame-o iPhone 5c with a slowly-dying screen becomes unusable, because it can go over 3 days without a charge provided I don't use the GPS. If I charge it at work Friday it'll usually still have ~40% charge Monday morning, having been unplugged all weekend. I barely even think about the battery level.

Sign me up for thicker phones with a bigger battery. And no stupid, ugly, scratch-attracting camera bump on the back.

[jaxn]

Mophie case

[ivm]

iPhone SE

[sigmar]

2 cameras aren't enough for an accurate depth map though, right? I thought you need infrared.

[daveloyall]

I've never heard of a single infrared camera being used for depth-finding...

Are you thinking of some active scanning technology such as LIDAR? Or the infrared grid-of-dots projection that the kinect uses?

[JustUhThought]

Infra-red cameras are used in the LeapMotion controllers. I don't think it is anything special about the spectrum however, coupled with Infra-red lights it's an easy way to cut down on the noise in the comtrollers field of view.

[falkenb0t]

Depends but there are computer vision techniques for deriving depth from two or more calibrated cameras. It may not be super accurate but it is likely do-able.