It may take years for 3-D gesture-control to catch on with consumers and app developers. It was a train wreck waiting to happen: like the Samsung smartwatch, this product does neither solve a consumer problem nor satisfies a need or a want (within the realm of the desktop at home). Gesture-control could make computers easier to use and add new functions, but nobody will have enough energy to gesture in front of a desktop for hours at a time. Leap will probably find its niche in industrial environments, such as opening doors or any task that is happening once in a while.
-Philippe [Thank you MIT Technology Review | By Rachel Metz 08.29.13] Wave hello: Leap Motion enables 3-D gesture controls on your computer, but appears to have stagnated since its July launch. Hype surrounding Leap Motion, an $80 3-D gesture-control gadget touted for its exceptional finger-tracking accuracy, reached fever pitch in the weeks before its July launch. Hundreds of thousands of people ordered the device ahead of its release, and a flashy demo video on YouTube was viewed millions of times. Yet after one month and a raft of “meh” product reviews citing problems like difficulty controlling apps and tired arms, the sardine-can-sized gadget—which connects to a computer’s USB port and tracks the movement of your hands and fingers as they move above its sensor—seems to have lost its steam. What happened? Much like the computer mouse and touch screen before it, it may simply take some time for app makers to get comfortable making applications that make good use of a completely new form of interaction—at least, that’s what Leap Motion and its developer community hope. “Things involving human-computer interfaces often move extremely slowly. It may take a while before the Leap reaches its full potential,” says Robert Jacob, a computer science professor at Tufts University who studies user interfaces and new modes of interaction. Developers say they like the app-creation tools that Leap Motion provides, and that it’s not particularly hard to build apps for the platform. What complicates things is the need to think about building apps in three dimensions, and to invent motion controls that users will understand how to use. This can be especially confusing because there is no standard set of Leap Motion gestures, so actions like selecting or grabbing an on-screen item can vary from app to app.
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“We are becoming addicted to our devices. Here's how to unplug.” You probably heard that before ... but if you ever have you felt like you couldn’t stop yourself from checking your email or sending a text message, even when it annoyed everyone around you, then you are techno-addicted
Kelly McGonigal, a PhD in psychology whose latest book is The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It” can help. Happy iPhone Launch Day ! -Philippe. [Thank you Stanford GSB | By Bill Snyder 08.22.12] “Forget cigarettes and candy. We’re becoming addicted to our devices — phones and email and our computers and our iPads,” says McGonigal, a lecturer who teaches in several programs at Stanford, including the School of Medicine’s Health Improvement Program, and the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). She will be co-teaching Compassion and Leadership at the Graduate School of Business spring quarter 2013. McGonigal spoke to Bill Snyder about compassion and addiction to technology devices. Here is an excerpt: I noticed on your website that your personal motto is “where science and compassion meet.” Tell me about this. Kelly McGonigal: I’ve always been interested in relieving people’s suffering. I considered fields like medicine, physical therapy, and psychotherapy, but when I started to study psychological science and how the brain works, I started to feel like science itself was a tremendous source of compassion for others. I fell in love with science as a way to understand suffering. It sounds like you’ve suffered. Yes. I suffered from chronic pain from the time I was very young; daily, debilitating headaches. I found my way into meditation and yoga, asking: How do I make peace with a body that produces pain every day? Over time, I’ve become just as interested in other kinds of suffering, including anxiety, depression, and addiction. Where does the science come in? Science is a way to discover things that are true, but that you couldn't tell by observing in a casual way. Our intuitions often lead us astray, whether it’s predicting what will make us happy, the effects technology will have on our brain, or understanding what really motivates people. Science is a great way to introduce people to new ideas, especially here in Silicon Valley and at Stanford. For example, when I teach about the benefits of meditation, people want to see the brain pictures first. Then they’re willing to try a mindfulness practice. Who needs a watch today ? Wearable devices could provide many new ways to interact with computers. However the timing of Samsung’s new product is typical of a new strategy we have already seen on smart TVs, mobile phones, even voice control before: to introduce products based on Apple rumors, just in case ... no matter if the product is really solving a problem or if there is a customer need, and want for it. In other words: brought to you by the 3D TV guys .... Samsung’s new smart watch may be the most polished effort yet—but that doesn’t mean it’ll be a hit - far from it.
-Philippe. [Thank you MIT Technology Review | By Tim Carmody 09.04.13] At events held simultaneously in Berlin and New York, Samsung announced three new products, including a smart watch that marks the company’s first foray into wearable computing. Along with the watch, called the Galaxy Gear, Samsung executives announced an oversized 5.5-inch smartphone (or “phablet”)—the Galaxy Note 3—and a tablet called the Galaxy Note 10.1. All three devices will be available in 149 countries beginning on September 25. By far the most intriguing, and most highly anticipated, of the devices is the Galaxy Gear. JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile, acknowledged as much when, moments into his presentation of the Note 3, a notification alarm went off. “I just got a message,” Shin said, as a graphic teasing the not-yet-shown watch appeared behind him. (“Don’t forget to mention Android,” read the message on the Gear’s mocked-up notification screen.) The Galaxy Gear is a full-color Android-based device about the size of an old calculator watch. It runs its own applications and was shown running apps developed by both Samsung and third-party partners. It can take photographs through a camera mounted on the wristband, facing away from the wearer, and has a pedometer that can track the wearer’s activity. The Gear is meant to be paired with other Samsung Galaxy devices, whether phones, Notes, or tablets. One way to think about it is as the equivalent of a Bluetooth headset, but for people who communicate largely through text and images. As an alternative user interface for its paired phone or tablet, it delivers notifications, from text messages to news alerts; it can even dial phone numbers and place calls, but only when paired with a phone or tablet hooked up to a wireless phone network. The microphone for phone calls can also be used for voice memos, although there’s a five-minute limit on what can be recorded in a single go. Latest iPhone rumors roundup at 24 hours of the launch and even this fake apple-event-invitation picture to make it complete.
I’ve seen a lot of rumors about Apple’s event, but a fake invite is a first, brought to you by Forbes, on news that is about a month old, see my original post on iPhone 5S convex home button and finger sensing technology at: http://www.philippemora.net/1/post/2013/08/apples-iphone-5s-rumored-convex-home-button.html Have a great Monday. -Philippe. Tuesday will tell, but multiple rumors are pointing to a subtle design distinction for the forthcoming iPhone 5S. Along with new Gold and Graphite colors, the home button is expected have a new look signifying the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner within. FOX News anchor (and now app developer) Clayton Morris first claimed, in an interview last month, that “sources” told him that the home button will “have a silver ring around it.” Speculation was raised by the inclusion in the invitation for Tuesday’s announcement of three silver-bordered rings along with the brightly-colored circles reminiscent of the iOS 7′s new palette. (I have inserted iPhone 5 home buttons into those rings in the spoof on Apple‘s invitation above.) The features is also shown on questionable “leaked” photos of 5S packaging, but these could have been generated in response to Clayton as opposed to anything Apple is actually doing. [by Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes.com | 09.08.13] Additionally, Sonny Dickson released high-resolution photos on Friday of a sensor purported to be attached to the new home button, but there has need no independent corroboration of the actual functionality of the leaked part. Most accounts have indicated that initially the sensor will be able to authenticate a user on the device, as the lock screen passcode does now, but not yet be capable of secure payments. The payment piece will obviously be a really big deal, and many companies are pursuing that grail, but fingerprint authentication, if it works reliably, will be a big boon to Apple in winning over enterprise IT departments. |
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