Kenneth Leung

This Johnny Lee's Wii hacks just keeps getting cooler and cooler.

Software for this hack can be found here :
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

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This is THE coolest DIY wii remote hack/mod ever. Johnny Lee from Carnegie Mellon describes how to make a digital whiteboard with a wii remote and projector. (Added bonus; it's multi-touch)

Software for this hack can be found here :
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Guess what I want to make after winter break. Yeah, a Wii whiteboard. Awesome.

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Here's and interesting application created by Mario Klingemann inspired by Minority Report where you can control the rotation of a cube withh your web cam. I love how I can control this thing with not my mind but my head.

http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/minority_cube.php

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Pioneer has developed a screen that allows you to draw 3D objects in the air that translate to the screen.

via akihabaranews

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For those into immersive enviroments and controls, Virtusphere has created a spherical controller. If this catches on, then in the future we'll enjoy our immersive virtual reality with full freedom of movement, and look like human hamsters in the process.

Link

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Supposedly it works like a 3d mouse.
It looks like a deadly Mac branded Nunchaku. Prepare to feel the burning wrath of my iNunchaku, Mario. If you look really carefully it's the old 8bit Nintendo controller held sideways.

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The idea of DARPA seriously exploring augmented human cognition both intrigued me and disturbed me. Alex's 20 minute DARPA film reminded me too much of films like,"Minority Report," "The Matrix," and "Ghost in the Shell."

All these film are my favorite simply because they begged the philosophical question of "What is man's relationship to technology?" and "Where are the paths of man and machine destined?"

Will technology be a conspiracy of faceless overlords?

Will technology be simple extensions of our abilities and nature?

Will we merge with technology to form a new state of existence?

Before I saw Alex's film I was really anxious to see how the film would attack these questions. After watching the film I was somewhat disappointed to see that DARPA felt that the future of man-machine interface was new window resize functions that use mental stress as input. I guess a mind-controlled UI would be somewhat better than dragging your mouse to the corner and resizing the window by hand. But, then again, this crack squad of commando nerds don't have time for such trivialities. I probably should also be relieve that DARPA doesn't have any plans to stick us with USB ports in our necks (i.e. Matrix) or above our tail bones(i.e. eXisTenz). I mean who really wants another hole to worry about.

If anyone else is interested in the destiny of man and machine check this link out:
technological singularity

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