WiSee: Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
Posts tagged "interface"
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Paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets
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Laser vision: Using Tobii’s gaze-tracker to control games with my eyes →
In Back to the Future’s version of 2015, a couple of punk-nosed kids compare Wild Gunman to a “baby’s toy” because “you have to use your hands.” In recent years, new controllers like the Kinect have brought us closer to that imagined hands-free future. But even though you aren’t holding anything, you still tend to end up waving your upper appendages in front of a camera. For true hands-free gaming, you’re better off looking to the eye-tracking system Tobii is demonstrating at CES this week.
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Vuzix Smart Glasses →
Just as smartphones forever changed the telephone, the Vuzix smart glasses M100 redefines our interface to the ever-expanding digital world. Vuzix smart glasses M100 is the world’s first enhanced “Hands Free” smartphone display and communications system for on-the-go data access from your Smartphone and the Internet. Running applications under the Android operating system; text, video, email, mapping, audio and all we have come to expect from smartphones is available through this wireless personal information display system. Vuzix smart glasses offer a wearable visual connection to the Cloud, through your smartphone or other compatible smart device, wherever you go.
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Microsoft patents Holodeck-like 'immersive display experience' for your living room →
Anyone who has watched Star Trek has imagined what it would be like to hang out in the Holodeck, and a new patent suggests that Microsoft may one day try to bring that experience to your living room. Described as an “immersive display experience,” the concept is to expand the game past the edges of your television — so you’ll still have a primary display, but the system will project images all around you to create a more realistic experience.
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Samsung’s transparent store displays will change the way you go shopping →
Window shopping is about to get a lot more interesting.
Samsung says it’s bringing its transparent commercial displays to market this fall, signaling a new and futuristic development in how shoppers will engage with in-store products.
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Is Apple working on a rival to Google Glasses? Leaked patent hints that a wearable iPhone may be on the way →
Apple could be working on a wearable, head-mounted version of its his iPhone.
Patents uncovered this week show that the technology giant has been investigating a head-mounted display with transparent glass.
Google showed off early versions of its own ‘computer glasses’ - Project Glass - earlier this week. Companies such as Epson have already rushed to make their own versions.
Apple’s patents, filed in 2006, suggest that the company has been interested in the technology for a considerable time.
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3D Display Made of Bubbles →
It is a common knowledge that the surface of soap bubble is a micro membrane. It allows light to pass through and displays the color on its structure. We developed an ultra thin and flexible BRDF screen using the mixture of two colloidal liquids. There have been several researches on dynamic BRDF display in the past. However, our work is different in several points. Our membrane screen can be controlled using ultrasonic vibrations. Membrane can change its transparency and surface states depending on the scales of ultrasonic waves. Based on these facts, we developed several ap- plications of the membranes such as 3D volume screen.
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Future Displays Made of Water and Air →
As tech designers of our beloved must-haves continue to whittle down their designs into meditative models of minimalism (here’s looking at you Apple), eventually all our digital displays will attain the ultimate act of enlightenment and be made of nothing but air and water.
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Founders of Leap Motion: Our Amazing 3D Tracking Will Be Everywhere →
In the past few weeks the Leap Motion device has sent shudders of delight through gadget lovers and computer designers alike by promising a new kind of ultra-accurate, and very cheap, optical 3D tracking for your desktop or laptop computer. Forget the Kinect, Leap Motion is cheaper ($70), more precise (down to 0.01 mm), and much smaller (think “pack of gum” proportions). The incredible demo for the Leap Motion (see below) shows how the desktop device can quickly detect hand motion so that a user needs merely wiggle their fingers in front of their computer to intuitively control what happens on the screen. Currently taking pre-orders, the Leap Motion is scheduled to ship between December and February, and with it will come a new market of third party apps designed to take full advantage of the device. I had a chance to sit down with CEO Michael Buckwald and CTO David Holtz and test out the Leap Motion first hand. If things go their way, the Leap Motion will become the “third input device” for computers, joining the keyboard and mouse in a new triumvirate of digital control.
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Touch tech makes almost any object ‘smart’ →
Scientists have developed new technology that could eventually make a doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock, admit a guest, or leave a message.
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Swiss scientists create mind-controlled robot for disabled patients →
A team of scientists at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a robot that can be controlled using only your mind. The new technology was demonstrated earlier this week, and involved a quadriplegic man wearing a cap to record his brain signals, which were then transferred to a small wheeled robot that he could move left and right simply by thinking it.
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Excuse Me, But Is Your Leg Ringing? →
Technology innovation—sometimes it’s great, sometimes it seems like someone is pulling your leg. In this case, almost literally.
UnwiredView.com ran a story last week about a Nokia patent filing that it calls “borderline creepy,” involving haptic technology and tattoos. Haptic technology, as described in the patent, “is a tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user.”
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Command robot planes with a wave of your arms →
Controlling drone aircraft could one day be as simple as waving your arms.
Yale Song and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way of controlling drones taxiing on a runway using gestures.
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Two Extremes of Touch Interaction →
Microsoft Research Redmond researchers Hrvoje Benko and Scott Saponas have been investigating the use of touch interaction in computing devices since the mid-’00s. Now, two sharply different yet related projects demonstrate novel approaches to the world of touch and gestures. Wearable Multitouch Interaction gives users the ability to make an entire wall a touch surface, while PocketTouch enables users to interact with smartphones inside a pocket or purse, a small surface area for touch. Both projects will be unveiled during UIST 2012, the Association for Computing Machinery’s 24th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, being held Oct. 16-19 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
