August 7, 2010

Absolutely distracted from the road

Here is a guy who invented some nice thing:

He wants to tell us that “you are absolutely not distracted in any way from the road”. Sorry but: Are you kidding us? In that case what’s the purpose of the “new steering wheel”- to remind the driver to his duty of attention to the traffic?

July 24, 2010

Smart displays

I think, these transparent displays are very cool

and when they are flexible and indestructible

they offer a great potential for interesting applications in the future.

July 17, 2010

Touchless multi-touch in 3D

As I wrote some time ago, human-machine interaction is going towards the interesting trends we saw in futuristic films years ago. Here is another example of a human-machine interface which reminds us particularly of “Minority Report”. A man is gesticulating with both his hands free in space and on a screen you can see a 3D scene performing appropriate actions.

That’s impressive!

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But because I’m seeing some disadvantages with this technology for me it isn’t such impressive anymore. The disadvantages or let’s say challenges are:

  • One has to hold his arms continuously in free space, for sure that’s exhausting.
  • What if there are more than two hands / one user? Are the algorithms able to match the hands to the right persons or will there be false recognized (inter)actions?
  • In my opinion the user gestures were adapted to the technology not to real user needs / perceptions.
  • The actions are not accurate enough yet.
  • In the case of the deletion of files some other way would be much better than to move the files to the edges I think. Because this action suggests me that there will be a backup of the files and I#m able to load them again.

And beside the other details a main goal for future investigations has to be to remove the need that a user has to recheck visually what he is doing with his hands (red cross and borders in the video and so on). The user wants to e.g. translate a picture, commands that with his hands and that’s it. The extra necessity to visualize that destroys the / my sensations.

But the technology (free hand gestures and 3d scenes) is a really great step into future!

June 12, 2010

State of affairs about “Minority Report” UI

We are almost there…

Needs some further effort (e.g. removing gloves) but it’s already amazing.

May 24, 2010

Increasing motorcyclists safety

If this is in reality like in the following video this is in my opinion a great practical invention for motorcyclists (the interesting part starts at about 2:45):

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