Topic: Wearable PC - on March 15, 2009 at 10:16:00 AM CET
SixthSense wearable data interface
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
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Topic: Wearable PC - on July 8, 2007 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
Defense Department offers $1 million for wearable power supply
The Department of Defense wants to pay you $1 million to come up with a lightweight "wearable power" battery pack for soldiers. The DoD says typical soldier going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack and it wants to fix that. The goal is to reduce the weight for the power system that drives radios, night-vision devices, global positioning systems and other combat gear, including a recharging system, to about 2 pounds per day The DoD is looking to mimic the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which has experienced successes using contests to attract competitors to develop innovative unmanned vehicles and other objects.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 2:00:34 PM CEST
e-Holster pouches
Clothing manufacturers have started to recognize the importance of portable devices by enlarging pants pockets to accommodate cell phones and the like; Levi Strauss goes further in recognizing what's really important by padding its new line of slacks with anti-cell-phone-radiation lining.
¬> <a href="www.japantoday.com"target="_blank">Japantoday ¬> eholster HP
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Topic: - on October 9, 2002 at 10:59:05 PM CEST
Wearable Computers Wave of Future
"Most people who stand in line at the airport are just waiting there, bored. I'm writing the next chapter of my book or reading e-mail," Starner said Tuesday at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers at the University of Washington.
Starner's gear, which costs about $4,500, includes a micro-optical monitor hooked to his glasses, a cell phone-shaped keyboard he straps to the back of one hand and a small black bag that holds a 1 1/2-pound computer.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 1:18:51 PM CEST
Wearable PC
The holy grail of the personal computing hypesters has always been the full-fledged wearable PC. Hitachi has realized this promise with its three-piece WIA. Sold by Xybernaut Corp and known as Poma in the U.S., it gives users the chance to be gawked at as they do their personal computing while wandering the streets.
¬><a href="www.japantoday.com"target="_blank"> Japan Today ¬> Hitachi ¬> OLD SHIT
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