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    The gloves from Johnny Mnemonic

    Wiimote Hack Converts TV into Touchless Microsoft Surface

    This user interface project allows you to control objects on a display using gestures, working like Microsoft's Surface but without touching the screen at all. Inspired by Johnny Chung Lee's work, the system requires you to wear Minority Report-style gloves equipped with infrared emitters on your fingertips. A Wiimote on top of the display keeps track of these IR LEDs, while the software can read the motion down to two-finger pinching gestures for image zooming. Hopefuly, using it won't convert you into a sofa-jumping, grinning-crazy, Scientology-member maniac. [Oh Gizmo]


    We're getting closer

    This is definitely on my Christmas list
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
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    cooool
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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    • #3
      I'd love to know what that test-bed has under the hood.

      4 GB video ram, 32 GB system ram, and 4 quad-core xeon processors?

      (Actually that sounds like a pretty sweet setup!)

      Kevin

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      • #4
        People are doing a lot of neat stuff with wiimotes. It's a 1024x768 limited spectrum (infrared?) camera/motion sensor. There are lot of hacks where you use it for depth of field gaming or even using a screen as a dry erase board with an infrared pen. I've actually picked up a bluetooth adapter for my desktop to play with it with my projector.
        Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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        That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

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        • #5
          yeah infra red. and neat video. Geez though. Synergy Labs? Why not just call it Thinking outside the box labs? Ugh, I am SO not a fan of biz fluff words.
          Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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          That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

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          • #6
            Dude, get over yourself. You have to leverage your core synergies, benchmark the actualized quality matrix, and embrace the key initiative of your life!

            ...

            ...

            Am I the only one who objects to pluralization of words that cannot be plural?

            "Infinities"

            "Syngergies"

            "Singularities"

            *sigh*
            The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

            I'm the least you could do
            If only life were as easy as you
            I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
            If only life were as easy as you
            I would still get screwed

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            • #7
              Yeah but to get over it I have to think outside the box... or is that think inside their box?
              Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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              That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

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