Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Cynergy Labs: Microsoft Surface Without The Surface

By Evan Ackerman

Gesture interaction is looking to be one of the next big technologies. All of a sudden it seems to be popping up everywhere, with both Synaptics and the Macbook Air sporting multitouch enabled touchpads. This project from Cynergy Labs is a sort of a mashup of Microsoft Surface with a touchless IR gesture recognition system, based on a Wii sensor and infrared-emitting gloves:

It’s pretty cool for being developed in eight days, but I’d almost prefer something like this, since it offers the same sort of functionality without having to wear gloves.

[ Cynergy Labs: Project Maestro ] VIA [ Hacked Gadgets ]




Comments

  1. ArAgorrn Says:

    It’s juste a simple application of this work : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

  2. Ben Says:

    this won’t take off - holding your hands in front of you constantly gets too tiring.


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