Evaluating Locations According to Feng Shui Principles

Posted: May 9th, 2006 | No Comments »

Motorola wants to patent “Method and apparatus for evaluating locations according to Feng Shui principles. Feng Shui is the Chinese practice of positioning objects, especially graves, buildings, and furniture, based on a belief in patterns of yin and yang and the flow of chi that have positive and negative effects.

The table with the chi values of each parameter is stored in phones memory and is used for calculation of chi values of different parameters.
Feng Shui Table

via Unwired View

Relation to my thesis: Fusion of sensors (3D hall-effect sensor, digital camera, GPS (-> GIS database), microphone, AM/FM transmission strength and distance to towers) on a mobile device to change the perception of space.