Friday, October 21, 2011

Next Generation Gaming controller

A new innovation of gaming is at your door step now. Nintendo Wii was the first to introduce motion controls in a video game few years ago. Then Microsoft introduced an advanced Kinect Controller to the video gaming arena. Today, Medibotics achieved the patent rights to unveil their latest developed Motion Recognition Clothing (MRC) to the market , which will lead the way in motion controls. MRC will translate body motion  into computer–readable signals.
MRC can be applied in sports training, medical therapy, virtual exercise, weight management, telerobotic and it can also see action in virtual reality settings. This can integrate air-filled or fluid-filled tubes into clothing that longitudinally spans multiple body joints, where changes in pressure within these tubes will be used to measure the motion of these body joints.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/next-generation-technology-for-full-body-game-controllers-128853663.html

Friday, October 7, 2011

Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection

Will the “Person of Interest” the TV series will be the future of crime prevention. DHS is in the process of developing the futuristic crime prevention program call Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST).  Currently DHS employees are been used as the test subjects. The way this system operates is buy measuring pulse rate, skin temperature, breathing, facial expression, body movement, pupil dilation, and other physiological/behavioral patterns. The intention of this technology was to prevent unknown terrorists and mostly be used at airports and other high security areas. What If this technology was implemented to monitor general public like what we saw on the TV series or the movie “Minority Report”.  If this technology is used to monitor public, this will bring a different prospective of big-data, analytics and Fuzzy logic to all of us.