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Related Links: Over two days, engineers and scientists gathered in the French Alps ski resort of Megeve unveiled cutting-edge research on boosting human perception with information from the Internet, customized databases, or even biofeedback from our own brains. Prototypes of both of these applications -- based on the novel use of eye-tracking tools -- were presented last weekend at the inaugural Augmented Human International Conference. A team of researchers from the Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna decided to take a state-of-the-art eye tracker designed for web-use analysis out of the laboratory and onto the street.
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On Twitter and in the Workplace, It's Power to the Connectors -
The technology is so democratic that the information is considered less reliable. The human networks are what count. In SuperCorp companies with far-flung global operations, personal networks of people that managers have met or worked with are often better sources for key assignments than data bases of resumes. One manager in a high-tech company called this "the old-fashioned way, the knowing people type thing: I know a person who might know a person..."
Augmented Reality
The only usability quibble I have with the design is that your toes don't actually move independently--try to move your big toe without moving your second toe right now. But beyond that, this could be pretty great: Regular mice have their range of motion scaled to your computer screen in about a 1:3 ratio, so that you can cover the whole screen without moving your hand around too much. To extend that idea a bit for the Toe Mouse, you could design the range of motion to be larger, to make up for the fact that you can't move your foot with quite the precision that most can move their hands. That would allow you to make more precise clicks--and your feet always have much more room to roam on the floor before you than a mouse would on your desk.
Almost Genius: A Mouse Made for Your Feet | Design & Innovation
