Sony EVOFLOW on Behance. 4th Augmented Human Conference for augmented reality, smart environments, cognition enhancement and wearable devices. The Fourth Augmented Human conference will be held in Germany. The conference looks at new work in augmented reality and having a more seamless and productive interaction with devices. There are finger worn input devices. Finger-worn interfaces remain a vastly unexplored space for user interfaces, despite the fact that our fingers and hands are naturally used for referencing and interacting with the environment. In this paper we present design guidelines and implementation of a finger-worn I/O device, the EyeRing, which leverages the universal and natural gesture of pointing.
Extending the screen to cover the entire forearm is promising. Exploration of user preferences of device-free interaction with smart appliances and services in the domestic environment. To help cope with information overload, recommendation engines direct users’ attention to content that is most relevant to them. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Microchips for People RFIDs. Wearable Devices. UP by Jawbone | Activity Tracker | Band + App for a Healthier You. How Wearable Tech Will Take The Enterprise By Storm : Google Glass, iWatch and Beyond. Wearable tech is all the rage these days, with much of the talk about these devices centring on their use as entertainment and lifestyle aids. But there are many exciting potential use cases for wearable technologies in the enterprise as well – so exciting in fact, that some observers are saying that enterprise adoption is all but inevitable, and will usher in a new era of “Bring your own wearable device,” or “BYOWD”, that’ll only accelerate as these devices become more widespread.
Devices such as Google Glass, Pebble, Fitbit Flex and the rumored Apple iWatch are gadgets that clip around your wrist or your clothes or else mimic a pair of glasses. Smaller than smartphones, they offer even more in terms of portability, mobility and ease-of-use, but because this tech is so new, its usefulness in the enterprise is a matter of some debate. “Early adopters will buy “wearables” on their own, then expect to be able to bring them/use them for work,” said Fleck. Forrester: Google Glass will be the next iPhone (but now it’s just a Newton) Roughly 21.6 million Americans would buy Google Glass if it were available, a new Forrester report says.
But the current Explorer version is more of a Newton — Apple’s flawed and failed PDA — than an iPhone. That’s 12 percent of the adult population. In fact, despite the current prototype model’s limited battery life and restrictive API, Glass is more of a “when” than an “if” product, according to the survey of more than 4,600 U.S. adults. “Glass is continuously improving via over-the-air updates and new applications, and we have no doubt that in time, Glass will be the next iPhone,” the Forrester study says.
The key target audience? A group of “Glass Gravitors,” Forrester says, who are tech optimists mostly under the age of 50, mostly high-income, and only slightly more male than female. But head-mounted glasses-based wearable computing is not the only game in town. Above: Wearable computing has big potential, and not just on the face Image Credit: Forrester Image credits: Forrester, SMH. Everyone Wants To Be The First To Ban Google Glass ⚙ Co. Organizations are warning Glass users to “keep out” before the device even hits the street. Fast Company is tracking a number of places Glass is likely to be banned, including movie theaters, public schools, and dressing rooms.
The New York Times also wrote about a number of different organizations considering action against the device, including most Las Vegas casinos. A Caesars Entertainment spokesman noted: "We will not allow people to wear Glass while gambling or attending our shows" in the same way the company's casinos bar computers or other recording devices. The move is inevitable--if preemptive--because of the need to avoid tech-based cheating in gambling parlors.
(If Rain Man can get thrown out of a casino for having an extraordinary brain, then surely tech like augmented-reality card-counting apps for Glass would be barred too.) Outside of casinos, most groups seem to be concerned with the privacy and safety of using Glass. Why We're Tracking This Story What This Story Covers. Wearable Computing. A Mind-Blowing UI That Could Finally Make Group Work Intuitive. We’ve seen "magic-window" augmented reality interfaces, Minority Report-style gestural interfaces, and computer-vision-powered collaborative display interfaces. But what about an iPad app that combines all three? That would be T(ether), an experimental design from the MIT Media Lab. Creators Matthew Blackshaw, Dávid Lakatos, Hiroshi Ishii, and Ken Perlin call T(ether) "a tool for spatial expression" that "acts as a window affording users a perspective view of three-dimensional data through tracking of head position and orientation. " In English, that means you can hold the iPad up with one hand to reveal a shared virtual space that you can manipulate with the other hand using a special glove.
T(ether) opens up mind-boggling possibilities for creating interactive digital art or exploring novel scientific visualizations. Okay, sounds good. Fo̱s - A truly wearable, Bluetooth LED display system by Anders Nelson. Staying active in a big city means rubbing shoulders with cars, buses, trains and wayward tourists. Bike lights are often ignored or stolen, and reflective tape and shoes only make you visible when light reflects off them. Accidents can happen in a crowded bike lane at dawn or when the sidewalk ends at dusk. Fo̱s is a new paradigm in visibility. It's a Velcro®-lined fabric patch that contains a super-bright LED grid you can program through your phone, wirelessly.
The LEDs' brightness will keep you visible and its video-stream capability will keep you noticed. You may not realize you're wearing it since it weighs less than a golf ball and feels like normal fabric. At the same time Fo̱s is keeping you safe, it also engages those around you. The technology inside Fo̱s is remarkable, and using it is beautiful. Our Android®-based demo application and library package lets you get started quickly. Fo̱s was designed from scratch. Single-height Fo̱s patch. Double-height Fo̱s patch. October 2013. Wearable technology - Future Morph. MzTEK is an arts and technology education organisation which addresses the gender gap between men and women working in computing and technology.
Our aim is to encourage women and girls to learn and experiment with technology creatively whilst highlighting the amazing, creative and innovative work that women are contributing to the field. We do this partly through our projects such as Chi-TEK , which showcased 15 technologically modified teapots designed by leading women artists, in the setting of a giant tea party as part of the London Design Festival at the V&A Museum in 2011. Our latest projects have explored wearable and fashion technology in workshops using the Lilypad Arduino, a microcontroller designed by Leah Buechley that can be sewn into clothes to make them interactive. We are currently working on a project with Guerilla Science called Hacked Human Orchestra . Artists are also very important in the e-textiles movement. E-Textile Workspace. The E-Textile Workspace aims to offer an informal setting for both critical discussion around&about wearables, and for hands-on work on individual projects.
It aims to open a space where practice is intertwined with knowledge sharing, feedback exchange among the invited participants – members of the wearable community in The Netherlands – and with critical reflection on the state-of-the-art in wearable technology. This page displays a collection of all the documented material that was generated during the various sessions. Explaining See-Thru-Me Meg Grant explains her See-Thru-Me project Wearables and data visualisation A report by Danielle Roberts of the meeting “Wearables and data visualisation” which took place at V2_ on 13 June 2013. [Outside V2_] The eTextiles Summer Camp 2013, Call for eTextiles Practitioners E-Textile Waste This months's eTextile workspace started out with three presentations around the topic of recycling textiles and e-waste. Beta Textiles Performative Wearables. Technology Repository: wearitatwork.
Technology Repository Big Map: wearitatwork. Degreas Watch concept on Behance. Black Diamond Advanced Technology. Black Diamond Advanced Technology recently introduced its Modular Tactical System (MTS), a lightweight, wearable and rugged computer system that is integrated into the user’s uniform and equipment, and optimized for dismounted C4ISR. What’s more, it’s available now as a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product. On of the major issues with “tactical computers” is that they become attention hogs. It’s kind of like texting while driving. You end up taking your head out of the fight in order to deal with the computer. Additionally, this modular approach of deconstructing the computer and communications system to fully integrate it into the uniform and common equipment means it is lighter than other models. The heart of the MTS is the Tactical Mission Controller (TMC), a low-profile processing platform, peripheral controller and power manager which is carried on the rear of the plate carrier.
For those of you concerned about security, Black Diamond has thought about that as well.