The camera in your smartphone may soon have a new trick: depth perception. Toshiba, Samsung and Silicon Valley startup Pelican Imaging are developing image sensors and software that would allow cameras to detect the distance ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 12, 2013
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Germany's patent court invalidated Friday a patent held by Apple—and contested by rivals Motorola and Samsung—on its "slide to unlock" function for smartphones, but the ruling can still be appealed.
Business
Apr 5, 2013
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Students perform better when their instructors use hand gestures – a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as algebra.
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Today's smartphones and computers offer gestural interfaces where information arrives at users' fingertips with a swipe of a hand. Still, researchers have found that most technology falls short in making people ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 27, 2013
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John Bonham. Keith Moon. Buddy Rich. The best drummers in modern music history had it all – groundbreaking technique, lightning speed and an unmistakable panache when it came to performing.
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Monday, March 18, for Microsoft goes down in Kinect for Windows history as the day the new Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7 arrives for developers, which, according to its team, is the most significant update for ...
(Phys.org) —Leap Motion will start shipping its 3-D motion controllers on pre-order basis in mid-May. Big news? For a growing Leap Motion fan base, it's great news. Leap Motion launched its sensing controller last year, ...
(Phys.org) —Beyond reading body motions, Kinect is getting a workup by researchers at Microsoft, now showing substantial control additions. Microsoft Research this week showed how Microsoft Kinect for Windows may be used ...
(Phys.org) —Nicole Scott, of the University of Minnesota, working with the Centre for Research in Evolutionary Anthropology at the Chester Zoo in the U.K. has found that captive female chimpanzees use different sorts of ...
Typing text messages on the mobile phone via the tiny soft keyboard is very cumbersome. How about simply writing it into the air! This idea drove the development of "airwriting" made by computer scientists of Karlsruhe Institute ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2013
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