Video: Make Your Houseplant a Touchscreen? Or Theremin? What Is Going On Here
Botanicus Interactus Disney Research For people who like the Microsoft Kinect but also the simple joys of nature, the dream makers at Disney Research have just smashed together that particular peanut...
View ArticleYou Can Give the Kinect the Power of Image Recognition
Kinect is Watching You Microsoft The Kinect can see, but the ability to see objects is different from the ability to recognize objects. You and I, with our eyes and brains that work so effectively,...
View ArticleHow The Nexus Q Could Change the Way People Play
Life of the Party Alison Seiffer In late june when Google introduced the Nexus Q, an Android-powered device that ports music and video from the cloud to home theaters, critics immediately set to...
View ArticleYour Kinect Will Count The Number Of People In The Room So It Can Charge You...
Kinect Is Watching You Evan-Amos via Wikimedia You already knew your Kinect was watching you, but perhaps not like this. A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing by Microsoft reveals that the company...
View ArticleKinect Will Save The Indigenous Rock Art Of A Paraguayan Tribe
Panambi’y Rock Art Frank Weaver Frank Weaver is a documentary filmmaker and native Paraguayan (now working from Florida) who has lived among and documented the culture of Paraguay's Panambi'y Indians...
View ArticleCubepix: Or, What To Do With Extra Cardboard Boxes
Cubepix Glassworks Barcelona Every cardboard box dreams of one day becoming a glorious digital pixel. And this is just about as close as they'll get — in a fun 8-by-8 grid of interactive goodness.The...
View ArticleCould Your Next Doctor's Visit Be On The Kinect?
Kinect Sensor Bar John Mahoney Telemedicine--remote consultation with a doctor through technology--is the way of the future. Live in a rural area? Need to see a specialist? Just beam yourself to a...
View ArticleWristband Tracks Your Muscle Movements For Super-Precise Gesture Controls
Most gesture-control systems require some kind of external sensors that "see" you, with optical sensors or depth sensors or cameras. They're on the outside, measuring your movements the same way human...
View ArticleThe Kinect Can Recognize Hand and Multitouch Gestures
Cem Keskin, a researcher over at Microsoft Labs, demonstrated a great new evolution of the Kinect hardware, Microsoft's awesome depth-sensing, body-mapping, voice-recognizing accessory to the Xbox...
View ArticleHow To Hack A Cockroach So You Can Control It With Kinect
We've already covered their DIY project to build your very own mind-controlled cyborg cockroach, but now the North Carolina State University researchers have taken roach control to a whole new level....
View ArticleThe 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft's Imagine Cup
The Imagine Cup winners gather onstage at the awards ceremony Julie Beck View Photo GalleryClick here to enter the gallery.At the afterparty for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology...
View ArticleA 3-D-Scanning Depth Sensor You Can Clip To An iPad
Structure Sensor Structure Sensor Microsoft's Kinect, a depth-sensor that has the ability to map the world around it in three directions, was a huge step forward for 3-D imaging. The Structure Sensor,...
View ArticleThe First Computer With Leap Motion Gesture Control Built Right In
HP Envy 17 With Leap Motion Leap Motion Leap Motion, the Kinect-like gesture control system we profiled here, is super exciting; it measures gestures to the hundredth of a millimeter, and works on any...
View ArticleElderly Spaniards Can Get Medical Checkups Via Kinect
Woman Uses TEKI System Screenshot from "Teki Kinect Accenture Osakidetza English.mp4" by palomito97 on YouTube In Spain's Basque Country, some of the oldest residents are getting the newest...
View ArticleMicrosoft Turns Elevator Into Artificially Intelligent Panopticon
Service Elevator Flickr/Sam HowzitThe worst part of riding an elevator is awkwardly trying to find a direction to stare in that doesn't line up with anyone else's line of vision. The second worst part...
View ArticleThe Microsoft Kinect Is Watching The Korean Border
DMZ Wikimedia Commons At this point, we've probably seen more non-gaming uses for the Kinect, Microsoft's Xbox camera, than actual game-related ones. But national security? That's a new one.Kotaku...
View ArticleWristband Tracks Your Muscle Movements For Super-Precise Gesture Controls
Video of oWu9TFJjHaMMost gesture-control systems require some kind of external sensors that "see" you, with optical sensors or depth sensors or cameras. They're on the outside, measuring your movements...
View ArticleThe Kinect Can Recognize Hand and Multitouch Gestures
Video of -jWMaY0WO7cCem Keskin, a researcher over at Microsoft Labs, demonstrated a great new evolution of the Kinect hardware, Microsoft's awesome depth-sensing, body-mapping, voice-recognizing...
View ArticleHow To Hack A Cockroach So You Can Control It With Kinect
Video of R-IzkGA9hTcWe've already covered their DIY project to build your very own mind-controlled cyborg cockroach, but now the North Carolina State University researchers have taken roach control to...
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