On the way to transhumanism which can make life easier, funnier, but also more dangerous for sure.
via GIZMODO.de
March 17, 2013
March 1, 2013
Free hand gestures everywhere
Looks like a comfortabel armband which measures your hand gestures by muscle contraction and with which you can control nearly every other technology.
via Heise.de, see also GetMYO.com
February 23, 2013
Billboards & water out of air
Peru, where there is almost no rain but nearly 100% atmospheric humidity the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) and the agency Mayo Publicidad build a billboard which captures the water from air and stores it. So people can go and catch some (drinking!) water.
via GIZMODO.de, see also: UTEC.edu.pe
February 18, 2013
Are we talking about the same color?
It turns out, many people questioned if their color perception is the same as the perception of others. Let’s say as a child you saw something and e.g. your mom told you this is a red strawberry or some other thing is a yellow banana. So you got the idea of red and yellow.
But that does not mean the interpretation of your visual informations in your brain and the interpretation of your mom is the same. And no one knows…
via GIZMODO.de
February 17, 2013
You just think you feel what you’re seeing
It is possible to get tactile feedback via visual stimulus.
January 31, 2013
‘Roll-flying’ robot
A quadrocopter which also can roll on different undergrounds. So it can be more efficient and robust. But the setup doesn’t allow to roll in x and y easily.
via Forschungs-Blog
November 4, 2012
HMIs for the highly automated (e.g. cars)?
Looking into future, which HMIs do we need for such a highly automated thing as the car in the video? Do we have to let ‘them’ do in order to concentrate on other informations or do we have to keep situation awareness and control all the time. If so, how?
October 9, 2012
Freehand 3D interaction
Exciting!
And for information visualization one can combine this for example with Google Glasses:
September 22, 2012
Nice manual combined with the technology
Really nice idea to teach using a smartphone especially for non-tech-savvy people:
from vitaminsdesign.com via fastcodesign.com
August 7, 2012
Botanicus interacticus
Funny idea to interact via plants.
But I’m not a fan of the playful interaction character. What can be more useful / meaningful use cases that don’t discrimate against plants? Maybe we can register the last period of cleaning plants and therefore remind the user of that?!
via GIZMODO.de