Wow! it feels very nice to blog after a long time. I had been busy the last 1.5 months both at work and off work. At work, its the usual boring stuff. Off work, I had a wonderful vacation for 2 weeks roaming all over(not really) the country. I had visited some places which I always yearned to go. And...Even more wonderful thing is hapenning in my life. I am getting married!. So, busy for obvious reasons. Just wanted to share this with the world :). Lets come to the topic...
Sony Ericsson launched earphones with an interesting feature. To stop/pause the music you do not need to press any buttons. The control is done based on some gestures. To start playing the music, just put both the earphone in the ear. To stop playing the music, just remove them from the ear. To pause the music, just remove one of the earphones. This earphones are meant for mobile phones. So, one can attend a phone call by removing one of the earphone. This particular gesture might not be good because you will not get to put both the earphones while talking on phone. Hopefully, this is configurable. See this link and/or the following video.
Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Twitting just by thinking
For the un-initiated folks in twitter(I am one of you until few weeks back), you should first ask "what is twitter ?". Twitter is a kind of social networking tool where you post small messages(max 140 chars). Its like micro blogging and is a new fad of the world. People follow you to know your latest updates. It is a nice way to keep your friends and family updated. The small messages that you post are called twits. My loginid on twitter is 'sunilvirus'. So, you know where to follow me.
Engadget is running this article about a new human computer interface(HCI) where the user can type anything just by thinking about the alpahbet. The computer system will analyze your brain patterns and does the job of typing for you. Ofcourse, this technology can be used in many applications, but it seems the inventors of this gadget are obsessed with twitter. They developed an application to send twitter messages. See the below video for this technology in action. Do not have high expections thinking that you can type at the speed of thought. This is still in very nacent stages and is slow. Damn slow actually!
update: A related article from washingtonpost about a mindcontrol gadget.
Engadget is running this article about a new human computer interface(HCI) where the user can type anything just by thinking about the alpahbet. The computer system will analyze your brain patterns and does the job of typing for you. Ofcourse, this technology can be used in many applications, but it seems the inventors of this gadget are obsessed with twitter. They developed an application to send twitter messages. See the below video for this technology in action. Do not have high expections thinking that you can type at the speed of thought. This is still in very nacent stages and is slow. Damn slow actually!
update: A related article from washingtonpost about a mindcontrol gadget.
Monday, March 16, 2009
SixthSense: Wearable Gadget
Its truly amazing what this gadget can do. This what the author wants to define it as... "SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information". I am not sure if you guessed it right what this gadget can do. Here is the deal.
The gadget is worn on the body. It has a built-in camera and projector. With the camera it can detect the motions or gestures done by the person wearing it. Depending on the gesture it performs appropriate action. The gesture interface is more or less like the one in the minority report movie, where the users makes gestures with fingers. But what puts this device much ahead of minority report is its ability to project on any surface using the built-in projector. And what puts this far ahead, is its ability to get information from the web about the object being seen and project that information back on the object in appropriate manner.
If you are in a bookstore and if you have the cover page of the book in front of you, this gadgets detects the book title, get the rating and reviews of this book from amazon, and project this information back on the book. It provides menus to get more information. Isnt that amazing ? Not impressed ? I am sure you will be thrown off your seat if you see this video. I just talked about one of the innumerable possibilities. The following video lists a bunch of them.
The genius behind this masterpiece is "Pranav Mistry". Here is his personal website and his description about the project. Here is an interview with him about the project. He is currently doing PhD from MIT. He had done his masters from IIT Bombay, intrestingly not in computer science but in design. The prototype costed them only $350. Once this goes to commercial production, I am sure this can cost much lesser. I guess that this will be a revolutionary product given it potential. Great job dude !
The gadget is worn on the body. It has a built-in camera and projector. With the camera it can detect the motions or gestures done by the person wearing it. Depending on the gesture it performs appropriate action. The gesture interface is more or less like the one in the minority report movie, where the users makes gestures with fingers. But what puts this device much ahead of minority report is its ability to project on any surface using the built-in projector. And what puts this far ahead, is its ability to get information from the web about the object being seen and project that information back on the object in appropriate manner.
If you are in a bookstore and if you have the cover page of the book in front of you, this gadgets detects the book title, get the rating and reviews of this book from amazon, and project this information back on the book. It provides menus to get more information. Isnt that amazing ? Not impressed ? I am sure you will be thrown off your seat if you see this video. I just talked about one of the innumerable possibilities. The following video lists a bunch of them.
The genius behind this masterpiece is "Pranav Mistry". Here is his personal website and his description about the project. Here is an interview with him about the project. He is currently doing PhD from MIT. He had done his masters from IIT Bombay, intrestingly not in computer science but in design. The prototype costed them only $350. Once this goes to commercial production, I am sure this can cost much lesser. I guess that this will be a revolutionary product given it potential. Great job dude !
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Operate your computer with wii controller
Lifehacker is running an article on how one can operate the computer with a wii controller. This technique exploits the bluetooth capabilties of the wii controller (including the balance board of wii fit). Once you have a wii console, all you need is a PC/laptop with a bluetooth capability. If you do not have on in-built you can purchase an external bluetooh adapter/dongle for almost nothing.
Pairing up of the wii controller with the computer is more or less like pairing any other bluetooth device(Read the lifehacker article for detailed info). Once the device is paired up, you need to use a software named "GlovePIE". This software is used to map the signals given by the wii controller into computer movements like mouse buttons and arrow keys.
What else ? Sit back and control you pc with your wii controller.
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