Bonkers – SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures

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…

Man as Canvas – Projection Mapping onto a Human Face [Video]

We’ve seen this on buildings, but on a human face? Good work Samsung for producing this.  Now make it dynamic and allow the person to move. Please.   Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

Kinect and shopping carts. wi-GO and Whole Foods

Kinect and shopping carts. wi-GO and Whole Foods

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…

An invisible Mercedes. Almost. Carry on!

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Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme

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Help me Obiwan, you're my only hope - The Holoflector

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

Intel Ultrabook - pop-up theatre / human digital billboard

Intel Ultrabook – pop-up theatre / human digital billboard

The Pop-Up teams make surprise appearances on the streets of Los Angeles, transforming an everyday location into a mini theater. Check out the Ultrabook pop-up theatre site for more. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

The Badgermin- half badger, half theremin

The Badgermin- half badger, half theremin

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Lovely Loops. When you're in space, with a camera, you can catch some pretty spectacular imagery.

Lovely Loops. When you’re in space, with a camera, you can catch some pretty spectacular imagery.

“NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. We are also…