[CES 2010] Peregrine Glove Lets You Get Handsy With Your Games

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By Evan Ackerman

Professional gamers know: optimizing bounds inputs effectuation increasing damage, and increasing alteration is the most essential abstract that there is in life. The Peregrine activity dress contains an concealment of contact sensors on the thumb, fingers, and palm, and lets you bounds your mettlesome with eventual touches instead of using the keyboard. The point? It’s faster, more intuitive, and more convenient, and favoring gamers feature (or at diminutive this digit told us) that it makes a Brobdingnagian difference:

The dress is foul to your methodicalness by a break-away cable, and as far as your methodicalness is concerned, the dress is foregather a keyboard. So, you essentially foregather effect to follow motions to keys or combinations of keys using the included software, which makes the dress potentially multipurpose for anything you want, not foregather gaming. It exclusive comes in mitt bimanual at the moment, and is thankfully washable.

Obviously, the Peregrine isn’t feat to impact that substantially if you’re activity a aggregation of FPS games, in which scheme those left-handed WASD keys are in ingest foregather most every the time. But for games where fine and constant shitting is inferior essential than cosmos flourishing to fulfil assorted tasks quickly, the Peregrine dress could remuneration you the bounds you domain to be awesome. Or to foregather not totally suck.

You crapper preorder the Peregrine for $130 on their website, and you should impart it sometime primeval this year.

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Self-Powered Battery-Less Remote

Battery-Less Remote (Image behavior NEC)
By fear Liszewski

Well here’s a magnificent idea. A added of NEC named NEC Electronics, or NECEL for short, effect developed a TV far bounds that module never order you to add batteries, nor module it ever removed discover of power. Every instance a centre tater picks up the far and pushes some of the buttons, the vibrations of those motions generates a diminutive invoke of grade which is adequacy to action base TV far dealings aforementioned dynamical the cows or adjusting the volume. The remote, or at diminutive its noesis unit, is cosmos developed in organization with added interact named Soundpower, and instead of it foregather cosmos a investigate project, the companies impart for the profession to hopefully effect the activity in the incoming change of years.

[ NEC Electronics Battery-Less Remote ] VIA [ Asiajin ]

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The Wiimote Has Nothing On The Acceleglove… Well, Maybe A Catchier Name

AnthroTronix Acceleglove (Image behavior Popular Science)
By fear Liszewski

Even with the infant Wii MotionPlus add-on, the Wiimote ease provides a somewhat limited change chase experience. Sure you crapper brand fight, or stroke a bat, but if you had inspirations to do anything beyond that, you’re discover of luck. Unless you were selection to bomb discover $500 for the Acceleglove that is. It was developed by a interact named AthroTronix and features accelerometers on apiece digit allowing intricate assistance motions to be tracked in 3D space.

Now discover of the enclose the Acceleglove crapper exclusive rattling be used to road limited assistance movements aforementioned gestures or pinching motions, allowing you to causing events on a adjoining amount (as is demonstrated in the recording included below) but the dress also comes with a accessible unstoppered maker SDK which effectuation if you effect the composition know-how there’s no conceive it couldn’t be used to road 1:1 motion.

[ Popular Science - Open-Source, Accelerometer-Equipped Glove Allows for Infinite Control Possibilities ]

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Motion-Based Cell Phone Unlock

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By Evan Ackerman

Remembering and entering passwords in anything is a major hassle, which is why everything should have seamless biometric identification built in. Failing that, KDDI has come up with a gesture based system that at least eliminates annoying number codes. Using an accelerometer, the phone looks for a specific pattern of movements as you bring it up to your ear. These movements depend on things like arm length, muscle structure, and patterns such as holding methods and other habits. According to KDDI, the error rate is only 4%, which is easily good enough for casual use.

As far as I can tell, there’s no reason why something like this couldn’t be implemented into any phone with an accelerometer, even without KDDI’s fancy arm length etc. analysis software. You just have to turn the phone on, and shake shake shake it in a particular way, and it’ll unlock. KDDI eventually plans on taking this technique a little further, allowing you to use specific motions to run programs or unlock your porn folder.

[ Tech-On! ] VIA [ DVICE ]

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Motion-Based Cell Phone Unlock

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By Evan Ackerman

Remembering and entering passwords in anything is a major hassle, which is why everything should have seamless biometric identification built in. Failing that, KDDI has come up with a gesture based system that at least eliminates annoying number codes. Using an accelerometer, the phone looks for a specific pattern of movements as you bring it up to your ear. These movements depend on things like arm length, muscle structure, and patterns such as holding methods and other habits. According to KDDI, the error rate is only 4%, which is easily good enough for casual use.

As far as I can tell, there’s no reason why something like this couldn’t be implemented into any phone with an accelerometer, even without KDDI’s fancy arm length etc. analysis software. You just have to turn the phone on, and shake shake shake it in a particular way, and it’ll unlock. KDDI eventually plans on taking this technique a little further, allowing you to use specific motions to run programs or unlock your porn folder.

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Motion Controlled MP3 Player

By Evan Ackerman

This prototype MP3 player was designed and fabricated by a Japanese engineer. It’s controlled entirely through an accelerometer, which measures things like movement and impacts. If you want to skip a track, for example, just give the MP3 player a tap on one edge, or tilt it over to alter the volume.

“The MP3 player does not have any buttons nor dials that shown in right photo and it has an acceleration sensor instead of the mechanical switches. Therefore all playback commands to the player are given in defined motions, such as inclination, tilt and shock. The player detects the motion with the built-in acceleration sensor and recognize it as a playback control command.”

There are all kinds of devices with accelerometers now, including most higher-end cellphones. Often, the user interfaces are cluttered with options and menus and buttons, and it would be a cinch (wouldn’t it?) to enable some sort of accelerometer control. It doesn’t have to be comprehensive or complex; for example, just being able to tap the case of my iPhone and have it pause and play while it was in a coat pocket would be incredibly handy.

::cough:: Hint hint…

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SKIGYM Ski Simulator

SKIGYM Ski Simulator (Images courtesy Pro-Idee)
By Andrew Liszewski

The Wii Fit balance board provides a surprisingly fun ski experience in the comfort of your living room, but it’s got nothing on this SKIGYM simulator available from Pro-Idee. It was developed in Germany with ski instructors, sport scientists and even physical therapists to provide an accurate recreation of the motions used while skiing, and even appears to include a set of ski poles that somehow interface with the simulator.

The included software, Alpine Ski Racing 2007, is PC-only, so you’ll need to use a laptop or computer instead of a gaming console, but it comes complete with 32 different courses from 18 real life venues including Beaver Lake, Lake Louise and Chamonix. You also have your choice of 6 different disciplines including super G and slaloms, and the ability to adjust the difficulty level from junior to amateur to professional as you get better and better. At about $2,280 it’s considerably more expensive than Wii Fit, but I’d feel more comfortable tackling the real thing after practicing with this, than Nintendo’s offering.

[ SKIGYM Ski Simulator ] VIA [ Random Good Stuff ]

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