Touché by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things
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#2This gonna fuel so many designers brainstorm. It seems to sit at the right level of abstraction.
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#3This needs to leap into the marketplace as soon as possible. The music player concept is brilliant, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
I wonder about the potential of a screen-less touch vocabulary, such that you could type a text message without taking the phone out of your pocket. (Siri is nice and all, but it requires the user to yield control to the Cloud and pray that it responds accurately.)
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#4What the hell is that part about kids and breakfast?! "Could be used to monitor and train kinds to use the right implements to eat breakfast". That is just messed up.
In all seriousness this is freaking awesome tech. Will definitely be huge, unless they fuck up the licensing or patent it to death.
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#5There's also more important applications for this, for example detecting common postures and grips on fallen asleep drivers or knives that know when their not being handled properly. Additionally a world of possibilities opens up for the blind and disabled if you can inform them of objects they are touching in a room. I find these applications (and surely many more I am not enumerating) much more appealing then controlling a phone, but alas, that's what sells.
Lets hope the eye-candy stuff propels the technology so that the really useful stuff can be built at a lower price.
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#6Worst pun ever.
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#7There's also more important applications for this, for example detecting common postures and grips on fallen asleep drivers or knives that know when their not being handled properly. Additionally a world of possibilities opens up for the blind and disabled if you can inform them of objects they are touching in a room. I find these applications (and surely many more I am not enumerating) much more appealing then contr…
I think it will be a wonderful boon for people with artificial limbs. A sense of touch may be all that is needed to reduce phantom limb pain, among other things.
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#8Disney just won a lot of respect by me (and probably by millions of others); the awesomeness of this is staggering.
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#9Disney just won a lot of respect by me (and probably by millions of others); the awesomeness of this is staggering.
By funding a university research department?
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#10What the hell is that part about kids and breakfast?! "Could be used to monitor and train kinds to use the right implements to eat breakfast". That is just messed up. In all seriousness this is freaking awesome tech. Will definitely be huge, unless they fuck up the licensing or patent it to death.
elbows on the table.