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Tanya Peters

Gesture-Based Computing - 5 views

  • Devices that can accept multiple simultaneous inputs (like using two fingers on the Apple iPhone or the Microsoft Surface to zoom in or out) and gesture-based inputs like those used on the Nintendo Wii have begun to change the way we interact with computers.
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      The sentence expresses numerous examples of today's technology that incorporate gesture based computing.
  • Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in virtual activities with motion and movement similar to what they would use in the real world.
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      The sentence briefly describes the definition of gesture based computing.
  • A number of mobile applications use gestures. Mover lets users flick files from one phone to another; Shut Up, an app from Nokia, silences the phone when the user turns it upside down; nAlertme, an antitheft app, sounds an alarm if the phone isn't shaken in a specific, preset way:
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      The sentence describes various computer applications that are involved with gesture based computing.
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    This article describes a basic definition of gesture based computing and provides its readers with technology and applications that are equipped with this feature.
Ben C

Parkinson's Patients Go to Wii-hab | LiveScience - 3 views

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    Using the Wii's technology can help improve the condition of patients with Parkinson's.
Daniel M

TED Blog: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense on TED.com - 2 views

  • This demo, from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT (and spearheaded by her student Pranav Mistry), was the buzz of TED2009. Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. (Recorded in February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 08:42.)
Ben Walsh

MIT Glove Mouse - 1 views

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    Another example of Gesture Based Computing from the minds at MIT
Vicki Davis

JooJoo - 1 views

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    Will the Joo Joo tablet pre-empt the itouch - not sure, but it sure looks cool and that it can surf the internet 9 seconds from being turned on is cool. Also looks to be an "e-book" type device as well. (Wonder if Amazon will make the kindle app on this device?)
Vicki Davis

joojoo Tablet Now Shipping | CMS Developer's Journal - 0 views

  • Fusion Garage announced that its category-creating joojoo Internet tablet has begun shipping from the factory today.
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    More tablets heading to a place near you -- they call it a "category creating" Internet tablet - I'm not sure, but am still watching all these tools.
Vicki Davis

Quickies. intelligent sticky notes - 1 views

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    The future of computing - from the amazing inventor of sixth sense technology at MIT. Intelligent sticky notes are an example of how we will interact with devices and augment reality with RFI tags.
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    These are the sticky notes that you should review and how they will work.
Hope B.

Gesture Based Computing Moving Along with Oblong | GottaBeMobile.com - 1 views

  • On that spin-off, they’ve picked up with gesture based Minority Report-like computing in ways that I’m sure make police departments everywhere shake their heads at budget time.
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      This sentence describes how gesture based computing is helping the police force on a tv show.
  • We continue to see this kind of thing getting closer and closer to consumers, and Microsoft’s Project Natal looks like it will be a big step forward this year.
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      This sentence recommends a new technology that will prosper greatly and become beneficial.
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    This video is so awesome! How crazy is this technology, who even knows this is possible? Our future is in the fate of things like moving objects on a screen with your hands!
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    This has a great video and great information about the Microsoft's Project Natal.
Vicki Davis

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense | Video on TED.com - 5 views

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    Important video for gesture based students to view. This is about the evolution of input into the computer.
Ben C

Microsoft's Project Natal Could Out-Wii the Wii - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com - 2 views

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    This site talks about the console wars between Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Microsoft and Sony are planning on making devices for Playstation 3 and X-Box 360 respectively that are similar to the ones Nintendo has for their Wii.
Daniel M

The future, it is all a Gesture - Bruce On Games - 3 views

  • technology continues to roll on and mankind has used it’s ingenuity to come up with a whole new sort of man/machine interface. It is called Gesture. And it is not an acronym, it really does mean interfacing by human gesture. And it is one of the hottest areas of technology just now.
Katherine C

TED Blog: Jeff Han on TEDTalks - 1 views

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    "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen
Katherine C

David Merrill demos Siftables - 0 views

  • MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
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    David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands.
Andrew M

Green Sense on Vimeo - 1 views

shared by Andrew M on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
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    Citizen's Bank was going green and they wanted to let people know. Instead of using signs in their storefronts we suggested something different, creative and inspiring: motion sensing and gesture-based device that showed bypassers effecting the environment on the screen.
Roxanne G

SchoolTube - Generation Computer - 1 views

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    this video is a general overview of pretty much everything that pertains to Gesture-based computing and how our generation is growing with it
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