Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Computer reads hand signals

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

This is kind of like using gestures without contact. Wave Power: The G55 picks out key hand signals from webcam video feeds. Photo by Toshiba  Funny how, apart from the attempts with voice commands, input always seems to come back to hands. At least this one isn't touch related. [via Popsci]

Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Over a month back I mentioned in a blog post titled "Mind control interface a near reality" the Epoc Headset, being developed by Emotiv. The other day on the New Inventors on the ABC here in Australia my friend Mark Pesce gives a shoutoput to me. Ref 1min in. ...

Pointui - touch for when you don’t have fingers - acting agnostic

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Recently I was made aware of a program called Pointui while scanning Frank Arrigo's blog (hi Frank). I thought it sounded interesting if for no other reason than the screenshot looked to provide bigger buttons. So I visited the Pointui site. Pointui is a interface layer for Windows Mobile based devices. ...

XBox 360 Controller for Mac OSX

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Came across this neat little project that could be an alternate input device. Not sure if it could double as mouse and gaes controller, or just games.  "...a USB driver which allows you to use wired XBox 360 Controllers via USB, and wireless XBox 360 Controllers via the Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver ...

Unforseen custom uses for Wii as input device

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

There exists assistive technology devices that use tracking of a reflective dot by infrared to control a computer. They cost in vacinity on USD $4-500. Now take a look at this video and think about the unforseen possibilities of general purpose 'stuff'. And what happens with mass market uptake and ...