I suppose this puts the tech in Minority Report to shame. Now I'm thinking Google Goggles/Glasses + Touché.
Touché by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things
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#22I'd love to see this applied to guns where you have to make a much more intentioned grip for the safety to be disabled. a gun that senses it is being held in a weird way will not fire. I think the first application will be on a mouse. A mouse that has multi-dimensional touch features would be great. This will also make creating an interface to control things like the whole house very easy. Basically enabling complex…
Is that a big problem? Why don't the gun owners who perceive that as a problem use the safety or buy a gun with greater trigger pressure? If they don't do those things, why would they want to pay to add this feature?
Drunks cleaning their gun, kids, poor training. All factors in fatal shootings.
I am not saying it will solve all this - but if this can be applied, it may easily reduce it.
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#23I'd love to see this applied to guns where you have to make a much more intentioned grip for the safety to be disabled. a gun that senses it is being held in a weird way will not fire. I think the first application will be on a mouse. A mouse that has multi-dimensional touch features would be great. This will also make creating an interface to control things like the whole house very easy. Basically enabling complex…
Is that a big problem? Why don't the gun owners who perceive that as a problem use the safety or buy a gun with greater trigger pressure? If they don't do those things, why would they want to pay to add this feature?
It's not really a big problem in the grand scheme of things. If you follow the 4 safe behaviors(google it if necessary) it's pretty much impossible to have an accidental discharge.
But mistakes happen (and idiots happen), and occasionally someone has an accidental discharge while handling or cleaning.
I think where this would really shine is for user recognition/unlock as mentioned by a previous poster. There have already been attempts at user recognition, but those relied on magnetic rings or RFID chips.
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#24I'd love to see this applied to guns where you have to make a much more intentioned grip for the safety to be disabled. a gun that senses it is being held in a weird way will not fire. I think the first application will be on a mouse. A mouse that has multi-dimensional touch features would be great. This will also make creating an interface to control things like the whole house very easy. Basically enabling complex…
or how about guns that won't fire because you aren't the registered owner (or approved on 'firing list' of some sort, in the case of, let's say, a wife that's home alone when a burglar comes). Brings a whole new meaning to hacking, also.
Bu this doesn't provide the ability to ID, just the ability to sense particular holds.
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#25Mysterious how HN submissions get picked up... I submitted this yesterday via VentureBeat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931173
The title makes the difference. :)
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#26What 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.
It's a new cereal called Clockwork Orange Berries.
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#27This reminds me of this awesome rant on the future of interaction design where the author compares the "picture under glass" model of traditional touch interfaces with the amount of interactivity we have with a sandwich: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
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#28Good! Finally we'll have the technology to train children to properly eat cereal!
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#29I'd love to see this applied to guns where you have to make a much more intentioned grip for the safety to be disabled. a gun that senses it is being held in a weird way will not fire. I think the first application will be on a mouse. A mouse that has multi-dimensional touch features would be great. This will also make creating an interface to control things like the whole house very easy. Basically enabling complex…
Is that a big problem? Why don't the gun owners who perceive that as a problem use the safety or buy a gun with greater trigger pressure? If they don't do those things, why would they want to pay to add this feature?
Gun owner loses concentration for a second. Safe is left unlocked. Child gains access to firearm. Child mimics television and pulls the trigger. Childs hands are too small/weak, firearm is heavy, grip on firearm is frail, gun does not fire.
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#30There'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…
Totally! I actually found it really surprising how boring the potential usage examples in the video were compared to what's possible with some of these ideas.