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10 May

This is bonkers – SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures

by Spooner

SoundWave

Gestures are becoming an increasingly popular means of interacting with computers. However, it is still relatively costly to deploy robust gesture-recognition sensors in existing mobile platforms. SoundWave is a real-time sensing technique that leverages a speaker and a microphone to robustly sense in-air gestures and motion around a device. It is capable of detecting a [...]

Filed Under: music, technology

08 May

British Rail Design Book

by Spooner

British Rail Design Book

Some photos of selected pages of a British Rail Design Book from 1986 by the Danish Design Council by James Cousins. Links to large versions of each image in the thumbnails at the bottom of this post. Includes Way finding for food. Or, check the whole British Rail Design Book set on Flickr. British Rail [...]

Filed Under: Featured, photography

07 Mar

Kinect and shopping carts. wi-GO and Whole Foods

by Spooner

Wi-Go

Two similar projects here but with slightly different objectives. I saw the Whole Foods demo recently and it reminded me of the wi-GO project that surfaced about a year earlier… wi-GO is a project that seeks to unite the technological knowledge and liability in the construction of a common path toward integration and improved quality [...]

Filed Under: Featured, technology

28 Feb

Help me Obiwan, you’re my only hope – The Holoflector

by Spooner

Holoflector

Those clever chaps over at Microsoft Research have too much time on their hands. This augmented reality mirror and LCD screen work together to give us that Star Wars holographic projection experience we’ve been wishing to experience since we first saw it in 1977. The integration of another device, in this case a Windows Phone, [...]