Games for Cats

Human design games for cats in electronic; to advertise and promote a brand of cat food softly.

MotionBeam

The MotionBeam project explores the use of handheld projectors to interact and control projected characters. Physical movement of the projection device, much like a motion controller, is used to guide and interact with the character. This creates a unified interaction style where sensor input and projector output are tied together within a single device.



News
Presentation at CHI '11 in Vancouver, Canada
We will present a full paper on the MotionBeam project at CHI 2011: 'Non-Flat Displays' session, Tuesday 10th, 11am. Download our paper: MotionBeam: A Metaphor for Character Interaction with Handheld Projectors.

Source:
http://www.motion-beam.com/

Internet Kissing Machine: There's an app for that

Japan tech lab builds simulated kissing machine for long-distance loves.

TOYKO—
Enjoy chatting online with your long-distance love but wish the experience was more tactile? You may be in luck.



Researchers in Japan have created a device that, potentially, could let you tongue-kiss someone over the Internet. Or at least manipulate a plastic straw with your tongue and have the movements replicated by a similar machine at the other end. We know: Hot.

A video of University of Electro-Communications grad student Nobuhiro Takahashi demonstrating the device -- which currently only runs through a single PC, but could be modified to work over distance -- has gone viral. In it, Takahashi explains that kiss data can be stored and replayed, so you can experience the same smooch over and over.

"For example, if you have a popular entertainer use this device and record it, that could be hugely popular if you offer it to fans," he says.

Of course, having a straw move around in circles isn't exactly the same as the touch of a loved one's lips -- a fact Takahashi understands and is working to replicate: "The elements of a kiss include the sense of taste, the manner of breathing and the moistness of the tongue," he says. "If we can re-create all of those, I think it will be a really powerful device."

True. And we expect the Internet porn industry to be making millions from it within minutes of its coming on the market.

Source:
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-internet-kissing-machine-theres-an-app-for-that-20110506,0,7001905.story?track=rss

New "human's organ"

Description on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw Uploaded by neurowear on Mar 15, 2011

We created new human's organs that use brain wave sensor.
"necomimi"is the new communication tool
that augments human's body and ability.

http://www.facebook.com/neurowear
http://neurowear.net

Well, this should be described as just another kawaii fashionable gadget from Japan.

Also in black...



For a full feature headset that reads your brainwaves,
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html

The Coca Cola Friendship Machine

Like the concept, dislike the product.

Paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets

Press Release: Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets
Queen’s University’s Roel Vertegaal says thinfilm phone will make current smartphone obsolete in 5 to 10 years.

KINGSTON, ONTARIO – The world’s first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.



“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab,. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.”

The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone – it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.

Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.

“The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk” says Dr. Vertegaal.

The invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin-film and flexible. They use no power when nobody is interacting with them. When users are reading, they don’t feel like they’re holding a sheet of glass or metal.

Dr. Vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on May 10 at 2 pm at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver — the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. An article on a study of interactive use of bending with flexible thinfilm computers is to be published at this conference, where the group is also demonstrating a thinfilm wristband computer called Snaplet.

The development team included researchers Byron Lahey and Win Burleson of the Motivational Environments Research Group at Arizona State University (ASU), Audrey Girouard and Aneesh Tarun from the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University, Jann Kaminski and Nick Colaneri, director of ASU’s Flexible Display Center, and Seth Bishop and Michael McCreary, the VP R&D of E Ink Corporation.

Video – PaperPhone demonstration

Video – Snaplet wristband computer

Articles and High Resolution Photos – See attachments.
PaperPhone ACM CHI 2011 Scientific Article 5.19 MB
Snaplet ACM CHI 2011 Scientific Article 1.85 MB
PaperPhone Hi-Res Image (JPG) 1.15 MB
Snaplet Hi-Res Image 1 (JPG) 1.51 MB
Snaplet Hi-Res Image 2 (JPG) 2.93 MB
PaperPhone Hi-Res Video (mp4) 27.68 MB
Snaplet Hi-Res Video (mp4) 6.24 MB

To arrange an interview or for a copy of the papers, please contact Michael Onesi at (613)533-6000 ext 77513 michael.onesi@queensu.ca, News and Media Services, Queen’s University.

Source:
http://www.hml.queensu.ca/paperphone

Wild claim... interface is way too cumbersome.