Comments on: SIGGRAPH 2008 Emerging Technology

By: Bmud

Bmud — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:35:41 +0000

I hate reactable… It's clunky, requires wicked time to calibrate, and it's a complete rip-off of sensetable. Drives me bananas that its gotten so much exposure, granted audiopad never made its development methods widely open to the public…

Regardless, if you're serious about developing a wacko board that has augmented multi-interacting tracked objects, then true RFID is the way to go. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm3HKf1FWx4 : That might just be me, but computer vision systems feel are really a waste of computing power.

The power-cloth is neat, but how can you wear it if there's a sign that says "Microwave! Do not touch!"

By: Foot

Foot — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:41:37 +0000

I want some of those glowing balls for juggling!

By: ysvry

ysvry — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:44:36 +0000

great show us more , maybe some in depth intervieuw with some 3d stand girls ;)

By: BlenderLovingSquirrel

BlenderLovingSquirrel — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:55:13 +0000

i just crapped my pants… and I think I liked it!

By: TimF

TimF — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:21:41 +0000

ByronK, you are welcome.

By: ByronK

ByronK — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:29 +0000

Tim, nice reporting! Thanks again for all your work.

By: IanC

IanC — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:08:58 +0000

Hamunaptra, if I recall correctly, they use resonance to couple the charger and item together. It's not throwing out lots of radiation in all directions.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:55:37 +0000

The "place object on table" device is pretty cool.
I've seen it some years back, you can check it out here:

http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/

Wireless battery recharging already has some designers going.
I saw some designs to put you mobile wireless on to recharge the battery. Very nice.
You can build a frequency harverster yourself if you want too lol.
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07212004-192328/unrestricted/Harrist_Thesis_072804.pdf

Nice update, thanks.

By: tyrant monkey

tyrant monkey — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:37:30 +0000

@Hamunaptra dude the biggest source of radiation out there is the sun cause more cancers than anything else. stuff like this has to pass radiation test any ways

but these control devices look pretty cool just hope the make it from the lab and into shops

By: Hamunaptra

Hamunaptra — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:22:30 +0000

Yeah… yet another source of random radiation^^

I wonder how far the microwaves go from the sheet… and what happens if you put your mobilephone down on it…