User: Popscivideo |
The Wearable Motorcycle An electric exoskeleton motorcycle invented by a college student. Video created by inventor, Jake Loniak. Tags: motorcycles popsci popular science |
User: googletechtalks |
Reading Your Mind: Interfaces for Wearable Computing Google Tech Talks March, 6 2008 ABSTRACT Today's mobile devices have inherited many of the characteristics of desktop computing - including the assumptions that the user's full attention can be focused on the interface and that the user has the manual dexterity to spare for it. These assumptions result in users who run into doorways while typing an e-mail on their mobile phone. When faced with these interface difficulties in our experiments, users sometimes exclaim "I want my device to read my mind!" In this talk, we will demonstrate several prototypes that exploit pattern recognition and good interface design to simulate reading the user's mind by guessing their intent. In addition, we describe preliminary work on an actual brain computer interface. Informed by our own wearable computer use since 1993, my group investigates what mobile users claim to do with their devices, what they actually do with their devices, what they want to do, and the mobile interface challenges that interfere with the fulfillment of users' desires. We are currently exploring a successful modern incarnation of a wearable computer, the RIM Blackberry equipped with a Bluetooth earpiece, focusing on its mini-QWERTY keyboard. We have developed a technique called Automatic Whiteout++ that can eliminate 25% of mini-QWERTY users' "fat finger" typing errors, without using a dictionary. We will also discuss Dual Purpose Speech agents, which "listen in" on the user's conversation to help schedule appointments, remember small "notable" pieces of information, and communicate with remote assistants. Finally, we will describe our preliminary research on BrainSign, a direct brain interface where the user communicates through natural language. Speaker: Thad Starner Bio: Thad Starner is an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing. Thad was perhaps the first to integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life as an intelligent personal assistant. Starner's work as a PhD student would help found the field of Wearable Computing. His group's prototypes and patents on mobile MP3 players, mobile instant messaging and e-mail, gesture-based interfaces, and mobile context-based search foreshadowed now commonplace devices and services. Thad has authored over 100 scientific publications with over 100 co-authors on mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI), pattern discovery, human power generation for mobile devices, and gesture recognition, and he is a founder and current co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems. His work is discussed in public forums both in the United States and internationally, such as CNN, NPR, the BBC, CBS's 60 Minutes, The New York Times, Nikkei Science, The London Independent, The Bangkok Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
User: ITWorldVideos |
Wearable technology fashion show Fashion and technology came together at the Boston Museum of Science, where Seamless: Computational Couture was hosted. Models and designers from around the world participated in the event showing off designs that incorporated technology. Tags: electronics gadget fashion |
User: TheOnion |
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less Fast food giant Yum! Brands believes its new feedbags will make it even easier for Americans to constantly be eating. More coverage at: http://onion.com Tags: comedy funny satire fakes news fast food mcdonalds kfc chicken nuggest |
User: senorcharlie |
Casren Mehring Wearable Computer Boffing Carsten Mehring demontrates his wearable computer Tags: keyboard wearable computer cyborg |
User: newscientistvideo |
Wearable computers Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/will-your-next-computer-be-wearable.html Find out more about some of the wearable computers showcased at the 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers on October 11-13. Tags: wearable computer technology accelerometer ipod glove |
User: doomcontrol |
Wearable Computing Systems A video sponsored by "The Government of Japan" outlining recent advances in Wearable Computing and Computer Vision. Tags: Japan Science Wearable Computing Device Nerd Tech Vision Goggles Interface Asia Economy Creepy Surveilance Control |
User: MolaYam |
Wearable Instrument: Guitar This 75-second video interviews Dr Richard Helmer about CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar and then shows him demonstrating it. Tags: music technology |
User: lakeeriebeachglass |
Lake Erie Beach Glass~Recycled Wearable Art! A brief story of what sea beach glass is and the wearable art it can become! Tags: OOAK Art Recycled Findz Lake Erie Sea Beach Glass seaglass beachglass jewelry wearable art bracelets earrings |
User: luigipagliarini |
FatherBoard, The SuperAvatar @ Share2008, Wearable Robot Art Fatherboard, the SuperAvatar is an avatar that - escaping from the virtual worlds (or the computer, generally speaking) - forms into a physical shape. It is similar to cyborgs (but is not a cyborg!!) and it is made out of the (90% recycled) hardware components of the computer where it came from. Fatherboard steps in to the "real world" and starts interrelating with the human beings (the audience). The essence of its dialog with humans is to be found in the idea of a confrontation between the "artificial" intelligences and the ones of their creators. The whole show is theoretically based on the concepts expressed in the Polymorphyc Intelligence and the Big Sieve theories, by Luigi Pagliarini. The ß Version of the mask (i.e.: orange color) is composed by a steel helmet, a cotton suite, gloves, shoes and a cloak on which hardware components of recycled computers have been installed. Technically speaking, the whole set up can be called a "Wearable Modular Robot" (Luigi Pagliarini, 2008) or SuperAvatar. Indeed, for the ß version mask some of the above mentioned components were integrated with an electronic circuit (in alternative, a pre-existing one was used) such as to locally react to the dynamics impressed to the actor's body through the use of one or more sensors. The following video was realized in occasion of the "con-performance" (workshop + performance) that Luigi Pagliarini will take to the Turin Share Festival 2008 Edition (Torino, Accademia Albertina, Salone d'Onore, the 13th of March 2008, h. 5.00 pm.). _____________________________________ "The SuperAvatar Project" is a network of artists cooperating to the development of the FatherBoard mask (still under construction) and following SuperAvatars. _____________________________________ In this video the FatherBoard ß Version realized in between December 2007 and February 2008. ________________________________________ More information: Fatherboard:: http://www.artificialia.com/Fatherboard Share Festival:: http://www.toshare.it Tags: Pagliarini Fatherboard SuperAvatar Cyborg Wearable Modular Robotics Polymorphic Intelligence Art Performance Ecology |