New technology could turn your arm into a touchscreen
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I am expecting something in the lines of this
[img]http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/images.gamezone.com/screens/23/4/38/s23438_ps2_12.jpg[/img]
I want a damn omni-tool not a spot of light in the palm of my hand.
Could I change some girl's ass into a touchscreen? If I can I'm buying this shit immediatly.
Too fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;20537483]A HUD would be awesome.[/QUOTE]
First thing i thought of when i read this was the in-eye interface from the Uglies series of books. Using finger movements to navigate and so forth.
Actually this idea was stolen. It is really called by the sixth sense, it's on Ted.com. [url]http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/sixth_sense_demo.php[/url]. Watch this, this kid is a genius. This is just another person ripping him off(proably Microsoft soon too)
To be honest, I'm kind of scared of this kind of technology. I don't know why, but it really freaks me out. Maybe I'm too used to hardware and the way I live now.
[QUOTE=Bigboy855;20584861]Actually this idea was stolen. It is really called by the sixth sense, it's on Ted.com. [url]http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/sixth_sense_demo.php[/url]. Watch this, this kid is a genius. This is just another person ripping him off(proably Microsoft soon too)[/QUOTE]
Wow, that was pretty cool.
I wouldn't call Skinput to be a "stolen idea" or a "rip off" of that, though. It's more of another way to get to the same destination.
Skinput uses specific sound recognition, whereas that Sixth Sense uses light/color tracking - two completely methods of operation. And, like she said herself in that video, it's similar to Microsoft's Surface Keyboard thingy, and, if I recall (I may be wrong on this), but Microsoft presented that before either of these.
It's just some friendly (or unfriendly, maybe) competition: someone showed it can be done, the idea caught on; now it's just a race to see who can make it the fastest, the most efficient, and the cheapest.
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