so many great inventions from just one guy

Was watching a video about Wiimote hacks made by this Johnny Lee, a graduate student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.



http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/johnny_lee.html

That's his profile page.
(on a side note, http://www.ted.com/ is a great website to visit for highly interesting talks about various topics... useful for GP. May I suggest that we pon GP to watch videos on TED??? =D )

Ah, if only.

If that demonstration cum manifestation of his intellect and creativity hasn't astounded you yet, take this!

ownage! =O

And some chim RFID locating technology which my feeble mind can not yet comprehend.


His blog, http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/ , (hahaha love the name) gave a brief mention of Sensitive Object, a French company specializing in the use of microphones to detect touches on any object. In fact, their technology can even locate the touch and detect dragging with more microphones. To my surprise, it wasn't done by sound localization. (!!!!!) The microphones are calibrated to recognise how touching a certain part of the object sounds like. This means that it will match the sound created by your touch to one of those in its memory, and then determine where you touched the object.

Woahhh! It's shockingly similar to the speech recognition software we dabbled with while we were building Ambi. Who would have thought?!

All these stuff inspire me to major in electrical/electronics engineering in university. =D

K. I've been watching TED till 4pm. This is bad. =P

Off to finish my tutorials! =)