interfaces
Bluetooth Watches
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Interesting (but short) article about a new product from Fossil: a bluetooth watch that can display caller ID from your phone. From the article and website, you can receive caller ID info, the watch will vibrate when calls or messages are received, and you can mute the ringer or reject calls just by pushing a […]
Wearable Displays in Popular Science Magazine
Sunday, August 20th, 2006The September issue of Popular Science has a “What’s New | Gadgets” one-page article (unfortunately no link) about the current, soon-to-be, and future tech of personal wearable displays. Unfortunately, the author focused on the use of these devices for playing movies and videos, rather than what I think will be the real use of these […]
Another Wearable Display
Monday, May 29th, 2006Another company has announced that they’ll be selling head-worn displays (a.k.a video display in glasses). The company, Mirage Innovations, promises that its technology will “revolutionize the price and performance of personal display devices”. They also claim that their technology claims eliminates “cyber-stress” from the viewing experience (e.g. nausea, dizziness, etc.) that can be common from […]
Catching Up
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006I’ve had a number of emails in my inbox for while, which I sent to myself as a reminder of things to blog. Since I’m finally getting around to it now, I’ll just post the links with short summaries here.
Non-invasive neuroprostetics - […]
Super Vision
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006Nice article today on Wired about high-tech glasses that offer the possibilty of giving people better than 20/20 vision. From the article:
Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person’s eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the […]
Transparent OLED’s
Monday, February 6th, 2006Nice article this week about an important new technology: transparent OLED’s. In particular, this could pave the way for low-cost, low-power wearable displays, particularly for heads-up displays, media player applications, and augmented reality. Certainly a technology to watch.
Is NeuroSky for Real?
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006While reading some blogs last week, I came across some coverage of the Entrepreneur27 technology symposium. At this event, a company called NeuroSky was a presenter, and reading about them piqued my interest. From their website:
NeuroSky, a fabless semiconductor/module company, has developed a non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology that converts brainwaves and eye […]
Voice Recognition for the Car
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Nice article this week from news.com that discusses the current and future states of voice recognition interfaces in cars. The main point of the article is that all of the car companies are investigating voice recognition in order to reduce the amount of attention drivers need to divert to other tasks while driving, such as […]
Myu Personal Media Viewer
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006While reading press releases and product reviews from CES, I ran across this story about a new personal media viewer from MicroOptical. The details seem pretty sketchy so far, and I haven’t seen any mention of the pricetag yet, but I’m hoping this […]
Skin Displays
Monday, November 28th, 2005Found an interesting “Headline from the Future” in Popular Science this month titled 2029: Google Your Vitals with Skin Displays. The short article presents the concept of having a “dermal display” beneath the skin that can relay health statistics about the body to the user. Nanobots in the body monitor the body’s health and relay […]
Bluetooth Headset Sunglasses
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005Motorola announced that they will be releasing the “Razrwire” (picture), which is a pair of sunglasses that has a “built-in” bluetooth headset. This is a nice-step towards more wearable and integrated communications, although since it’s being offered with Oakley sunglasses I’m sure it will be way too expensive to buy. Hopefully more manufacturers will follow […]