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Tag Archives: haptics
Robot Hand Copies Your Movements, Mimics Your Gestures (video)
2010 may go down in history as the year of gesture recognition. We’ve seen it in TVs, we have it [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged gesture robot, haptics, Kinect, Kiyoshi Hosino, robot controls, tsukuba university
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Mobile 3D Display With Pen That Feels What You See (video)
Japanese electronics firm NTT DoCoMo unveiled a cool new way to interact with the objects on your portable screen at [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged 3D display, 3D TV, CEATEC, haptics, NTT DoCoMo, parallax, virtual pets
3 Comments
Willow Garage Teaches Robot Not To Crush Puny Humans (Video)
If Sam Waterson taught me anything it’s that I need to fear the powerful grip of robots. Because robots are [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged haptics, Joe Romano, PR2, ROS, tactile feedback, UPENN, Willow Garage
3 Comments
Haptic Vest Lets You Feel Bullets and Knives In Video Games
If enormous flat screen TVs and surround sound aren’t enough to satisfy your hunger for immersive gaming then maybe you [...]
CES 2010 in Pictures
Integration. Dimensionality. Connectivity. Those were the three key concepts that exhibitors wanted to impress upon me as I walked the [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged 3D TV, AR-Drone, ces, chevy volt, haptics, ifairy, Microvision, network monitor, Panasonic, peregrine, Samsung
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Remote Controlled Robot Pet Sitter
Okay, I rarely spend time looking at “concept machines” but this one just made me chuckle enough that I had [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged concept, haptics, MintPad, MintPass, MintSelect, Robot Pet Sitter, Rovio, telepresence
2 Comments
AcceleGlove Remotely Controls Objects With Hand Gestures
Anthrotronix is letting your hands do the talking. Their new acceleglove is an input device that reads the smallest movements [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Gadgets
Tagged acceleglove, anthrotronix, ASL, hand signals, haptics, Jack Vice, sign language
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Microsoft’s Cool New Pressure Sensitive Keyboard
Some people approach a keyboard like a Ming vase and some approach it like a punching bag. Now, Microsoft is [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets
Tagged feedback, haptics, interface, keyboard, microsoft, pressure sensitive
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Is Surrogates Movie Getting Closer to Reality?
You know you live in a crazy age when blockbuster movies look like they might come true. Next month marks [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots, Singularity
Tagged anybots, AVATAR, braingate, bruce willis, cyberdyne, Hanson Robotics, haptics, robert vendetti, robot, robotics, surrogates, technophile, technophobe, telepresence, transcendent man
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