... the innovations come from Microsoft?
This sounds an awful lot like "SixthSense" I heard about a couple of years ago...
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
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My gut reacts to it exactly the same as I did to Google's full body gesture system. Seriously? Alphanumeric control of a device in my pocket? We already have a pocket-dialing problem. Do we need to create pocket-emailing problems? I can't imagine a need for eyes-free control of such a device besides a quick gesture for "shut up whatever alarm you're currently embarassing me with."
Maybe the video would make it all clear, but it's blocked at my company.
Maybe the video would make it all clear, but it's blocked at my company.
First of all, if I remember right, the full body gesture system was an april fools joke, funny you bought it :-p (no offence)
But I think that PocketTouche can have a real potential. The video demonstrated stuff like writing but I guess that that would be ridiculous to do in public on top of that it would be real cumbersome. But it might be of good use when you want to skip a song or mute an alarm (or call), so for small gestures.
Question remains than, can it be produced cheap enough. Only then will a 'gimmick' be added to real devices
But I think that PocketTouche can have a real potential. The video demonstrated stuff like writing but I guess that that would be ridiculous to do in public on top of that it would be real cumbersome. But it might be of good use when you want to skip a song or mute an alarm (or call), so for small gestures.
Question remains than, can it be produced cheap enough. Only then will a 'gimmick' be added to real devices
In the case of MS (Microsh..'s Stupidity) it could very well be not-a-joke) Sorry you can't get something like that, smarty 
I don't have a list of April's fool jokes that ever existed (nobody does). So I couldn't be offended by your remark (even if you wanted to) Plus, I didn't even refer to the body-gesture thing. It is the writer of the article who did I only referred to that stupid brick one is supposed to put in his (his) pocket (and be misunderstood by horny women) And it was actually my point, not only that it's rediculous to write on your pocket in public, but to put this piece of MS (Microsoft Stupidity) in your pocket, in public, in the first place :))
I only referred to that stupid brick one is supposed to put in his (his) pocket (and be misunderstood by horny women) And it was actually my point, not only that it's rediculous to write on your pocket in public, but to put this piece of MS (Microsoft Stupidity) in your pocket, in public, in the first place :)) 
Are you joking about being unable to imagine a need or use for this technology?
I can see strong needs for this in military, medical, education, construction, delivery, warehouse, public kiosks and information systems, public transportation, automotive, sports, anything benefiting from heads up, natural and/or multimodal interaction, etc. etc. etc... Just think of the multitude of gaming possibilities... to say nothing of the porn industry...
I can see strong needs for this in military, medical, education, construction, delivery, warehouse, public kiosks and information systems, public transportation, automotive, sports, anything benefiting from heads up, natural and/or multimodal interaction, etc. etc. etc... Just think of the multitude of gaming possibilities... to say nothing of the porn industry...
The technology in question here can be used in all the fields you mentioned. Only if it wasn't dum MicroSh.. Only if that block you are supposed to put in your pocket wasn't that big. You know, women do exist in all those fields (the misunderstanding. It's inevitable. It's horriible ..)
Actually These thin plastic sheets are identical to one used in the Sci Fi film "Ultraviolet" phone she got from an ATM like machine and it was a sheet like disposable phone . I thought at the time that it would happen in future it is a great idea.
I want one of those when they are properly realized .
Just think of the video game potential.
.Just think of the video game potential.
Much of the technology necessary for the OmniTouch prototype is already in the Kinect sensor
Looks like the brilliant and processor-nonintensive depth sensing method they came up with has some other legitimate uses besides Dance Dance Revolution
I wonder if the Kinect was a development fork from THIS research project, or was it the other way around?
Looks like the brilliant and processor-nonintensive depth sensing method they came up with has some other legitimate uses besides Dance Dance Revolution
I wonder if the Kinect was a development fork from THIS research project, or was it the other way around?
Microsoft, who sends many people to TED conferences, saw this technology at TED in 2006 or 2007. I suspect that this is where this technology came from. I believe it is from someone at MIT media Lab and that a prototype, with a bill of materials and software was listed at their site (component costs about $350).
:)) Do we need women to misunderstand us (men) even more?
Poor dum Microsoft. They will go to any length (even half a meter brick in your pocket) to immitate Apple :)) Even trying to innovate
Poor dum Microsoft. They will go to any length (even half a meter brick in your pocket) to immitate Apple :)) Even trying to innovate
What has Apple actually done by way of innovation? Most of what Apple has produced in the last 10 years is a re-working of others ideas or of products that had already existed in the marketplace. So, how is that innovation?
When it comes to innovations, Microsoft has produced a lot more of them than Apple and Google combined. However, Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of their innovations to "product-ize" them, or hasn't been as successful at making their products as "fashionable" as Apple has with their marketing prowess.
But, many of the ideas which don't come to market as products, are still money-making ventures in the form of IP. So, if Apple or Google or IBM or any other company were to develop or "innovate" with Microsoft's ideas, those companies would have to pay Microsoft for the use of those ideas. Google knows quite well what that means in the form of Android, where each device sold with Android has a Microsoft "fee" levied against it.
When it comes to innovations, Microsoft has produced a lot more of them than Apple and Google combined. However, Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of their innovations to "product-ize" them, or hasn't been as successful at making their products as "fashionable" as Apple has with their marketing prowess.
But, many of the ideas which don't come to market as products, are still money-making ventures in the form of IP. So, if Apple or Google or IBM or any other company were to develop or "innovate" with Microsoft's ideas, those companies would have to pay Microsoft for the use of those ideas. Google knows quite well what that means in the form of Android, where each device sold with Android has a Microsoft "fee" levied against it.
Touch screen genitalia! You know that's something that WILL be exploited, and when it is, it will take off. Remember movies over the 'Net? Wasn't Pr0n the first thing to come out with movies that people actually WANTED to watch over the 'Net? Same thing with photos.
Mock me if you will, but when the sex industry realizes what can be done with this sort of thing, there will be no gains. Not for a long time.
Mock me if you will, but when the sex industry realizes what can be done with this sort of thing, there will be no gains. Not for a long time.
Virtual sex...the "real" thing having been outlawed and exchange of
"bodily fluids" a crime as well!
"bodily fluids" a crime as well!
About 5 to 10 years ago the big news was a keyboard that was a display which folks could use with their various devices. Sounds as if Microsoft has done something along that line. Current term for it is projection keyboard. The Microsoft applications seem like the same principle using other instantiations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
Sigh...productizing... do we really need to keep univerbilizing all things as summarisations of technologized conceptualizations?
Seems arbitrarily obfuscatorilized....
Seems arbitrarily obfuscatorilized....
I saw that many years ago.
There are already quite a few interesting technologies for gestures, etc., out there. They just aren't consumer commercialized yet. But for all the apparent effort MS has been putting into these things (like Surface), they have very little to show for it. Except Kinect, which was originally based on third party technologies. (What else is new?)
There are already quite a few interesting technologies for gestures, etc., out there. They just aren't consumer commercialized yet. But for all the apparent effort MS has been putting into these things (like Surface), they have very little to show for it. Except Kinect, which was originally based on third party technologies. (What else is new?)
Leave it for Apple to always create the Class, and the rest (all, and speciallt dum micros...) to make the object instantiations :))
I think these guys have a better idea. They seem much smaller and more user friendly
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
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