The future sucked, so I went back.
Einstein’s Integral Perception of Reality – Everything’s Connected
Samsung developing mind-controlled tablets.
Samsung’s Emerging Technology Lab has been busy developing the technology as a way for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world.
Samsung researchers are testing how people can use their thoughts to launch an application, select a contact, select a song from a playlist, or power up or down a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. While Samsung has no immediate plans to offer a brain-controlled phone, the early-stage research, which involves a cap studded with EEG-monitoring electrodes, shows how a brain-computer interface could help people with mobility issues complete tasks that would otherwise be impossible.
Currently the technology only allows the user to make one selection every five seconds, with 80 to 95 percent accuracy.
TUMBLR SHARE PROTOCOL INITIATED, COMMENCE TEXT PO … whoa, sorry about that, my brain programming had a little bug in it.
I sat down (over the interwebz) with Veronica Belmont to talk about just how close we are to being or creating cyborgs. Is Google Glass a brain extension? Can we integrate mechanical parts onto human bodies? Is Skynet real?
I even wore my favorite robot t-shirt! Enjoy :)
(via Tech Feed)
Look Ma - No Hardware! Software Turns Dumb Paper into a Smart Touchscreen
Fujitsu has created a spatially aware Fingerlink Interaction System creates an interactive touchscreen like system using objects in the real world - both flat surfaces like paper and tables but also curved surfaces like books.
In this way - the system takes “dumb” items and makes them “smart”
The system doesn’t use any special hardware, it re-uses an ordinary webcam and a commercial projector. It relies on image processing technology to work its magic.
The video demo shows how you can import information on the paper by selecting areas on the page to import as data.
The system is designed to operate on specific gestures and will not react when you make ordinary motions on the table. The system uses finger height accurately in order to translate touch. The system can also be operated by gesture controls.
Gesture and spatial input for PC and other connected devices have received a lot of press lately with the likes of Thalmic Labs, Leap Motion and the updates from Microsoft for Kinect - but this is the first that I have seen of a company that is attempting to use this type of technology to merge the real world with the digital world outside of a typical screen.
More from Fujitsu’s press release here: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2013/20130403-01.html
besprizorniki (“the neglected ones”): yana’s story, by david gillanders
i want to thank fotojournalismus, who was kind and smart enough to track this down for me.
Interconnected Mind and the Global Conciousness Project feat. Roger Nelson (by rdnelson)
