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Posted by Kuk University on Sunday, February 24, 2013

Air-Write Your Future Texts and Emails

Thumb-typing texts or emails on a smartphone’s keypad can be excruciating. The touchscreen is uber sensitive, the keys are too small and you spend more time correcting your mistakes — or the auto-correct mistakes — than you do writing.

 Computer scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology understand this. That’s why Christoph Amma and colleagues have created an innovative “air-writing” glove system that allows users to draw letters in the air with their hand.

The glove is equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes that detect hand movements. The system then identifies which letters are being drawn and converts them into digital text, which can then be wirelessly entered into an email, text message or other mobile apps.

The system uses pattern recognition software to interpret gestures and is capable of recognizing approximately 8,000 words, along with complete sentences. The only caveat? You have to “write” in all-capital letters.

Currently, the model has an error rate of 11 percent, but that drops to three percent once it identifies the user’s air-writing style. Perhaps this might appeal to people with sloppy penmanship?

Amma hopes to shrink the sensors so they can fit into a smaller, more practical application, like a wrist band. He even imagines a gesture-tracking system small enough to fit into a smartphone — one that could detect movements and process data, all in one.

Reach Into Transparent Computer, Grab Content

 

Whether you’re surfing the Web, scrolling though your iTunes library or trying to find that spreadsheet for your boss, all of your day-to-day computer interactions exist in a two-dimensional realm. But it’s about to go 3-D. A transparent computer lets users “reach inside” and move files and data with their hands.

The SpaceTop 3D computer, developed by Jinha Lee, a grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was unveiled last week at the TED conference in California.

 Eye-Scroll Web Pages On Your Next Phone

The system uses a transparent display equipped with two cameras — one that tracks users’ gestures and one that tracks the eyes to evaluate one’s gaze. This second camera helps adjust the perspective of the projection one sees when looking through the screen. Imagine reaching under your monitor and seeing your hand going through a list Web pages like you’d they were physical documents in a file cabinet. You would simply place your hands behind the screen to type, manipulate icons and handle documents.

“If you somehow allow computers to accept different types of modalities in the same workflow, that will be much more effective,” Lee said in an interview.

BLOG: Video Reveals Invisible Motion All Around Us

While still in its early stages, Lee’s system could represent, as Wired’s Ryan Tate noted, a sort of quantum leap in computer interfaces should it go mainstream. Whether it does or not, Lee’s system is a bridge between the physical and digital realm. This union will permit more automated physical interactions — something Lee calls “programming the world.”

“Programming the world will alter even our daily physical activities,” he told the crowd at the TED conference. “With our two hands we’re reaching into the digital world.”

Forget Jedi Mind Melds, Blackberry Z10 Can Tell You What You’re Thinking

Not The Worst News just tested the new Blackberry Z10, which lacks the physical keyboard that has made Blackberry so popular among 70-year-old former typewriter-ribbon-manufacturing-executives.

Trying to type “this is a test” on the text messaging app lead to something like “thbsijk eitnz ein berliner.”

Fortunately, the helpful clerk at the Canadian telecommunications store pointed out that if you swipe upward, the device will actually predict words that you may want to type.

So swipey swipey, take 2! And the predictive keyboard predicted the following sentence:

                          “This is terrible.”

3 Worse Things A Smart Phone Could Display Than “This Is Terrible”

1. The entire movie “This is 40.” Forget how bad the movie is, and consider that $40,000 is what you may have just paid to your data provider to watch the movie if you were roaming in the Dominican Republic.

2. Angry birds literally pecking their way out of the glass from inside the phone like the movie the Birds. Why are the birds so angry? Because new technology prevents them from attacking people in phone booths.

3. Anything other than “This is a test,” because if people are going in a store to test a phone, we’ll put our money on that’s what they will write, without investing in any fancy predictive language algorithms or artificial intelligence technology.

Horses May Wish Taco Bell Didn’t Run For The British Border

Fox News reports that horse DNA has been found in ground beef at Taco Bell in Britain.

3 Worse Things You Could Find In A Fast Food Taco:

1. IKEA instructions of how to assemble a taco. In addition to involving numerous pages and needless Allen keys, IKEA hasn’t exactly been assembling its Swedish meatballs free of horse DNA, according to the article, which states that horse DNA was found in IKEA’s beef source in the Czech Republic.

2. Dinosaur DNA. If we learned one thing from Jurassic Park, it’s that messing with dinosaur DNA is never a good idea.

3. A signed confession from a bull about using horse DNA as a performance-enhancing drug to win a bull-riding event at last year’s Calgary Stampede.

Budweiser-Maker Sued For Allegedly Watering Down Beer, So You May Allegedly Have No Excuse For Getting So Drunk At The Academy Awards Alleged Party!

CNN reports that Anheuser-Busch is being sued by two California residents for allegedly watering down some of its brands, including Budweiser, Michelob, and Bud Lite Platinum.

From the article:

“‘Because water is cheaper than alcohol, AB adds extra water to its finished products to produce malt beverages that consistently have lower alcohol content than the percentage displayed on its labels,’ the suit said.”

And from a Budweiser label:

“THIS IS THE FAMOUS BUDWEISER BEER. WE KNOW OF NO BRAND PRODUCED BY ANY OTHER BREWER WHICH COSTS SO MUCH TO BREW AND AGE.”

3 Questions We Have Related To The Above Claim.

1. Does “WE” refer to talking water-droplets, trapped in the bottle, that some beer-drinkers can only see speak after drinking 15 Buds?

2. Does the fact that someone doesn’t know of any other brand that costs so much mean that Anheuser-Busch Inbev, the world’s largest brewer, doesn’t know what the competition is paying to brew beer? Is this because they don’t have access to the competition’s annual reports on their web sites, or because they keep inputting the wrong birthday to visit those sites?

3. You mean Bud allegedly tastes like water because there’s allegedly extra water in it? And all this time, we thought that it was just all of the delicious water-absorbing rice, combined with drinking it out of a plastic, sports-stadium-cup, filled with tears from cheering for the Chicago Cubs that gave it a watery flavor!

Congress: Gone Fishin’!

CNN reports that just a day before $85 billion in spending cuts take effect, many members of Congress have left Washington, D.C. Which means Congress has accomplished the goal we joked about on December 31 of becoming less popular, as they now have a 15.4% approval rating according to Fox News, down from 18%.

3 Ways To Become Even Less Popular Than Leaving Town During A Crisis

1. Leaving town, and then singing Rebecca Black’s “Friday” song during Friday’s crisis. A few years too late for both actions, and also annoying.

If you’re leaving town on an airplane, it’s always a bad idea to go fishin’ in the airplane’s toilet.

2. Leaving town to head to your local movie theater to see “The Last Exorcism: Part II” on opening night. The title gives away that any promises of “last” exorcisms from the first film have already been broken! So why trust them this time?

3. Leaving town to go fishin’. Especially when according to sportsmenslink.org, the budget cuts will reduce funds used to manage and restore fish habitats!