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This story is from the category Augmenting Organics
Date posted: 17/02/2009 MIT researchers have produced an interesting device, that looks a lot like a bar of soap. However, this deformable, squishy material hides a dense network of pressure sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers. The whole point, is to detect where in space the bar is, how fast it is moving, and upon what kind of trajectory. The pressure sensors detect slight changes in the grip, as organic muscles shift. This information is assembled together by an expert system tied into the bar, to anticipate where the user is going to move to next. Said anticipations are continually compared to actual movements, as the system continually refines itself, and learns to predict with ever-increasing accuracy, where a user?s movement is about to nexxt be. Such a system has obvious implications for a wide range of of interface tasks; if you can predict even a handful of microseconds in advance, and be accurate, data can be prepared for an interactive system in advance of its need. See the full Story via external site: www.newscientist.com Most recent stories in this category (Augmenting Organics): 04/05/2013: Printable 'bionic' ear melds electronics and biology |
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