Pico Projectors
Pico projectors are small devices that can project images on nearby surface, replacing the conventional idea of a monitor. They are likely to start being built into many small mobil electronic objects and will make information more available regardless of the environment. Analyst predicts rapid growth for pico projectors – [eetimes.com] The capability of picoprojectors [...]
Augmented Cognition
Using technology and computational power to extend and enhance our cognitive resources and abilities is called “augmented cognition”. This can involve filtering information flow, modulating information volume to stay under overwhelm limits, enhancing data with analysis and visualization, enhancing bandwidth by using multiple channels and information formats, sequencing information properly to allow increased assimilation rates, [...]
F-35 Helmet
The F-35 helmet display system offers fighter pilots an augmented reality 360 degree panoramic viewpoint for controlling their aircraft. How the F-35 Demon Helmet Looks Inside – [gizmodo.com] The helmet projects an augmented reality world inside its visor. This image is created by a visualization, targeting, and situational awareness marvel called Electro Optical Distributed Aperture [...]
Sixth Sense
The Media Lab at MIT is working on a project to create a cheap, wearable interface that can augment our physical environment with information and allow us to interact with it easily and by using gestures. The current prototype can be built for a cost of around $350. Sixth Sense – [mit.edu] SixthSense is a [...]
Wikitude
Wikitude is a travel guide smartphone application for the android platform that keeps track of your current location by GPS and links it to search results about the location. The results can be presented in a variety of forms including dots on a map with information bubbles or a camera view that superimposes information over [...]
Neurosky
The Neurosky Mindset is a headset that can pick up a variety of brainwave activity and interact with nearby software via bluetooth. This allows the user to interact with games, virtual reality environments and much more based on changes in their thought patterns. Neurosky – [neurosky.com] Begin harnessing the power of your mind with the [...]
Navisense iPoint
A motion sensing interface allows users to interact with software using a finger which is “sensed” using ultrasonic ranging. The finger becomes a combination mouse/cursor/drawing device or whatever the software supports. http://www.navisense.com/ iPoint Technology The iPoint™ is a small motion sensing mouse device which mounts to the keyboard or computer. Alternatively, the device can be [...]
Oblong G-Speak
The link below includes a video demonstration of gesture based computer interface technology that is similar to the fictional interface shown in “Minority Report”. Oblong G-Speak The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way [...]
Tinmith
tinmith AR system Tinmith is a project of the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia. The project does research into “mobile outdoor augmented reality”. This means wearing a backpack computer and HUD style headset that can overlay data and graphical information into the headset display while you are walking around outdoors, as [...]
Virtual Crime Scene
The links and quotes below describe a technology to scan a scene and digitize it, then transmit the information to another location where it can be re-created with great photo realistic 3D qualities. This has been framed as applying to crime scene analysis, but it can be applied to many other uses also. Scanner paints [...]
