Filed under: Etc.
Pervasive Gaming video links from Karl-Petter Åkesson’s lesson.
Johan
Filed under: Etc.
Follow this map to find Valand Art School tonight, Vasagatan 50.
The tram stop Valand is just outside there close to Kungsportsavenue, and it’s walking distance from Vasaplatsen if you come from Lindholmen with bus 16.
And, do not mix it up with Valand the Nightclub just across the street.
Johan
Filed under: Tech | Tags: chalmers project future, humanoid robot, reem b
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REEM-B is the evolution of the first humanoid created by Pal Technology Robotics, the REEM-A. The first prototype was designed to play chess with the Hydra chess engine and to be used as development platform. With REEM-B, Pal Technology comes astonishingly close to its final goal; to create a humanoid service robot that will be able to help humans in the future with sophisticated tasks. Our robot can walk dynamically, recognize and grasp objects, lift heavy weights and go around by itself inside any building complex, avoiding obstacles.
It can speak with people and accept voice commands, recognize faces and remind appointments as a secretary. All these features, including the large battery autonomy, makes REEM-B unique in its type. Discover REEM-B, one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots in the world. Discover REEM-B, one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots in the world. |
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Reem B
Filed under: Inspiration, Tech | Tags: 360, Natal, project natal, xbox, xbox 360, xbox natal
Are you tired of using expensive controls for your gaming console? Do you want your console to be able to recognize what you say? Do you want to be able scroll through movies, pictures and music with simple hand gestures and voice commands? Do you want to take the next step in gaming and interaction? Then the project Natal for Xbox is something for you!
Project Natal is a add-on unit that is used with an Xbox 360. With the help of a camera, a microphone array and a depth sensor the Project Natal is able to do full-body 3D motion tracking, facial recognition and voice recognition. This allows you and your friends in front of the TV to control everything from games to media in your Xbox 360.
This video is made by the Microsoft Corporation.
Technical facts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal
Posted by Isac Sagerholm – Group 14
Filed under: Inspiration
“How it would be, if a house was dreaming”
When I spotted this post: Project Blinkenlights then I remembered a cool project I spotted during the summer. This is an incredible 3D projection onto a big house. I wish I could have seen it irl because it looks very impressive especially the 3D perspective looks really good.
I would watch it in full screen with HD turned on and don’t forget the sound!The audio effects also seem to improve the audience experience. This installation was made in Hamburg Germany. There is an extended version of the video here. I guess I spotted this on Engadget
Jacob – Group 5
Men say that women have a sixth-sense. True or not, today I present you with a sixth-sense developed by researchers from MIT Media Lab and presented recently at the TED. Curious? Now see the presentation:
Neat, huh? The idea is a prototype, but we hope that in the next (10?) years we will have a gadget in their marketing. I think that success was guaranteed!
João Rodrigues, group 8
(via omitek)
Filed under: Inspiration
Nearness is a project about interaction made by people at BERG and Touch .
The project shows how interaction between objects can be done without touching each other. RFID and Arduino is used in the project.
The different techniques used in the movie caught my interest:
/Daniel Jansson, Group 3
Filed under: Inspiration
There are hundreds of physical computing projects on the Internet. The first reason that I picked this one is that the project is made at home and most of the components are the ones that we use in lab. If you want to build such a thing and if you have any questions, I think you can ask them to the guy who built it from here. You can also find the schematics of the circuit and code at the same place. The components that he used can be seen at the begining of the video.
Ahmet Keskin, Group 10
The robot technologies that have been developing are amazing. We have always imagined about the scenes which humans and robots interact with each other and wondered about that hopefully there will be no limits for this interaction one day. Lots of different projects have been done and different technologies have been developed for this sake. A long path has been taken but it seems there is a lot more to take.
The “peer to peer human robot interaction project” of NASA is a great one that is based on human-robot cooperation and interaction. There are 2 robots interacting with 2 astronauts and they are cooperating with each other to complete a specific task. The project shows the point where we are in robot technology and what is more to do.
Anyway I think the point where we came is impressing and gives you the excitement to create new technologies and imagine about the future.
Selçuk Çavdar – Group 10
Filed under: Labs
Robochess is the name that Ebrahim Jahandar, an 18 year-old student in Iran, gives to his robot that plays against you on a chessboard. The robot senses the positions of the pieces using magnetic sensors on the bottom of the board; it has a movable hook to pick up the pieces and move them around on the board. The robot can verify your moves as well as its own; once the opponent has made a legal move, it uses its algorithm to determine an appropriate move. The selected piece is then moved to the new cell on the board.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2279
By Maziar Shalbaf (Group: 11)
Filed under: Inspiration
The Attigo TT is a touchscreen turn table that gives you the possibility to scratch, loop and other kinds of effects just like a normal DJ mixing board.
The Attigot TT is created in the size of a normal mixing board, making the physical interaction being very close to the normal physical boards DJs are used to.
Martin Rodriguez, group 5
The hug shirt is made for sending hugs over distance. By using your bluetooth on your mobile phone you are able to send a hug to your friend. Embedded in the shirt there are sensors for feeling the warmth och your body and the strength of the touch when you hug it and then the actuators in the recievers shirt will recreate the hug of your friend.
You can read about it
Filed under: Inspiration
Is that old computer definitely useless? It is popular with recycling use, or even create something! Here`s an example, they just made something like “music box” using old main case, circuit board, many wires, and hardware. Although it sounds not perfect as real music, it provides us an example of recreating new stuffs using knowledge of physical computing, especially when we have not too much meterials.
“The main-board of this old computer was replaced by an hand made “motherboard” to misuse the hardware, hard-discs, floppy-disc-drive, etc . . . to make some classic music. “By Alexander Gurko the inventor of “JukeboxNr1”
Lian Duan Group 15
Filed under: Labs
This is a really cool product presented at TED by MIT grad student David Merrill in february this year. The product is a kind of high tech, interactive computers, stuffed into small blocks with a screen on top. These little blocks, called Siftables, can be used in alot of really cool ways, by moving them around and put them together. You can use the to do math, play songs, blend paint – just anything it seems. They might really be a toy or learning aid of the future, check them out!
/ Henrik Andersson
Filed under: Inspiration
This video came across when I did my Bachelor project. The video shows the use of slap widgets that has been researched in a German university, trying to bridge the connection from physical interface i.e. a keyboard, to a virtual interface.
By just applying different physical objects and map them to the surface and the application, a lot of hardware interfaces can be recreated. For example, an expensive DJ mixertable, can be simulated by using a computer and slap widgets.
I believe this technology will play a key role in the near future, to solve the feedback you really need from a physical object when it comes to virtual interfaces. By making really cheap key components, almost just a small piece of plastic, the “Lego”-era of interfaces will begin.
Johan Ludvigsson Group 1
Filed under: Labs
Tick talk clock tell us the time however it is not extremely useful clock as it should be in general. It is not accurate because it sometime become lazy and prefers to change the subject rather than talk about the time. It consisted of Arduino, stepper motor, LEDs and cylinders. The clock software is responsible to keep the time running on the Arduino. It made by Nicholas Wallen. Further information could be found in:”http://www.nicholaswallen.com/tick-talk”
“via Hobby / Hacking”
Ghazal FakhtehYavari, Group 3
Filed under: Inspiration
Big mouth Billy Bass is a singing toy, which actually is a fish made of rubber on a mechanical frame. Normally it looks like a fish just mounted on a wooden board, but the twist is that it turns its head out and also wiggles. At the same time it can sing songs, or speak out.
Originally this singing mechanism was controlled by a motion sensor which would be activated by a passer-by thus startling him/her.
Big Mouth Billy Bass ( on Wikipedia )
However, a crazy folk (named Steve) at mbed added a further twist to this project. He has reinvented the Billy Bass, and now it can tweet. If somebody tweets a message to @mbedmicro Bill Bass just tweets it by speaking it aloud live, and the video is streamed live on the mbed web page, which is really cool.
As mentioned in the website
The Twittering Billy hack replaces his existing brain with an mbed Microcontroller, wiring it up to his motors so we have control of his movements, an SD card so he can store lots of audio files, and the mbed’s Ethernet interface to the internet. What might be surprising is that Billy is not connected to a PC; everything is being done by the mbed Microcontroller and a connection to the internet!
Using a bunch of technologies primarily concentrating on the web and micro controllers, this is a great example of what can be done !
What more ! go tweet something to @mbedmicro and watch it live here !
~Suvash Thapaliya ( Group 7 )
Filed under: Inspiration
what is the Nav(igation) Jacket?
“O’Neill, leading brand and innovator of wearable electronic outdoor apparel is sponsoring the student award with one of the most advanced, technology enabled jackets ever made, the Nav(igation)Jacket.
The NavJacket is designed not only to look good but also to guide you through the mountains using guiding arrows on the sleeves display.
It will obtain its routes and point-of-interest (a ski bar for example or a gorgeous view point) via a Bluetooth enabled cellphone.
You can create the routes yourself or download routes from other NavJAcket Community members and follow their great skiing or snowboarding experiences. Once the jacket has loaded routes and point of interests in it’s memory no cellphone link is needed anymore.
Before racing down the mountains, select your route and the NavJacket will guide you down and show POIs (point-of-interest) other community members recommended.
O’Neills’ NavJacket will be for quite some time be the yardstick to follow and surpass. I like the complete solution, the integration of not only technology into clothing but also weaving the lifestyle experience into the social network via the NavJacket Community for sharing experiences with like minded.”
In my opinion this is interesting as this the matter of using technology in very simple things which is used in people everyday life. It is amazing how they thought of an idea to combine fashion and technology and with this influnce two different type of people.
Naghmeh Taghavi, Group 7
Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: arm, brain, control, controled, groupe 13, microship, monkey, neronal, Robot, robotic, signal, surgery, waves
This monkey with a microship inplanted in his brain is able to control a robotic arm as if to was his own arm just with brain signals.
This experiment is the proof that we have the technology to get signals directly from the brain with a microsphip. The first target are handicapted people which whould be able to remplace a lost arm or leg with a robotic one and control it as if it was their own. But for those who are ready to risk neronal surgery it opens the possibity to control computers, cars or houses just by though! Amazing and quite scary in the same time…
Eric Hauchecorne Group 13
Filed under: Inspiration
This is called the “Sixth Sense” from the labs at MIT, and I first saw it at TED.com. It’s an apparatus that you carry with you, consisting of three other technologies, A mobile phone, a projector, and a camera. Basically it can give you new features in the real world such as looking up reviews on products in realtime by just being close enough to let your sixth sense look at it, take pictures by holding your fingers up forming a frame, displaying all your photos on a wall through the projector, and the list goes on and on! The product review part can work with many things because it can, among other things, read QR code and goes on the internet via the phone and look reviews up.
In the TED video we can see some of these usages of this technology and the sixth sense is pretty fresh so things will probably get better such as improvements on the projector, higher contrast, better resolution etcetera, etcetera.
But all an all, I would want to have something smarter than a phone interacting more and more with the world like this prototype does.
Picture source: http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/#PICTURES
Video:
Via TED.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Blogged by: Jörgen Engström from group 4
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