Vision-based Input Interface
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University pitted their brains together to develop a new input method known as “vision-based Input Interface”. Through the use of a forward facing camera, all five fingers can be recognized by the camera, and will be used for various tasks such as typing, clicking and [...]
Researchers created touchless pointing system for phones.
Tokyo University geniusus have come up with a touchless pointing system for mobile devices. Move your finger around in front of the device, and the pointer moves. "Air click" and the system responds as whether it were a double-click. Awkward, but cool tech. (Props to Geek.com) Orginal post by Mike
New Input Mechanism That Lets You Wave Your Fingers At Your Phone
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University have come up with a new input method that they shout “vision-based input interface”. Basically that system uses a forward facing camera to read the gestures of your fingers, allowing you to type, visit, browse pictures and some other stuff without having to physically [...]
Robotic Muscle Suit
The robotic Muscle Suit developed by boffins at the Kobayashi Lab of Tokyo University of Science is a wearable robot of sorts, where two options are available. One of them augments the muscles in your lower back, targeting blue-collared workers who need to lift heavy objects repeatedly all through the day, while the other will [...]
Tokyo Robosuit Helps You Lift Stuff
Those of you Iron Man fans out there will certainly welcome that robosuit, which was created by the students at Tokyo’s University of Science. While we’re assured certain you’ve seen at least one or two similar examples, that one is rather contemporary and despite being less bulky than previous models, allows you to lift an [...]