Tag: MOTIONSENSING

Recent developments in medical science have enabled patients with heart conditions to experience unprecedented methods of surgery and rehabilitation. Tireless and precise remote-controlled robots provide doctors with "complete control" over surgical procedures, and an advanced and minimized artificial heart recently allowed a father to leave the hospital for the first time in two years. Aside ...

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design students Jennifer Kay, Jacek Barcikowski and Martina Pagura are concerned that people who work from home (such as yours truly) aren't getting enough stimulation throughout the day. In response, the students came up with a prototype for the Sidetrack table, a piece of dynamic furniture that's supposed to encourage breaks between spreadsheets -- or blog ...

It has only taken 80 years or so, but Sony has apparently discovered an effective method of preventing kids from sitting too close to the television. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony has developed a sensor mechanism that can actually determine if a child is within a specified range. When a child enters a one-meter zone in front of the TV, a camera detects the kid's presence and ...

It's bad enough that we've got a generation of cell phone users parading around, shouting into nearly invisible Bluetooth headsets and looking like they're having conversations with themselves. Soon, if Japanese researchers have their way, mobile phone users will add frantically waving hands to the list of traits they share with schizophrenics. Professors Masatoshi Ishikawa and Takashi ...

Since the introduction of the Nintendo Wii and its continuously phenomenal financial success, rumors of similarly motion-controlled add-ons for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have repeatedly found their ways online. The latest news, coming from a tipster supposedly in the know, says that Microsoft will enter the motion arena not with a remote-like device such as that found on the Wii, but ...