COVET: Wireless headset | KITTY anti-keyboard | Video Glasses
Today’s pretties brought to you by gizmodo.com
Plantronics Versa – Wireless headset concept (still preproduction)
KITTY Tech – Keyboard Independent Touch Typing Technology (also just a concept)
They expect to have a transparent model. It attaches to a wristwatch, which is otherwise wireless. These two ideas are so cool, I might just pee a little, thinking about it.
From engadget.com:
The Eyetop Centra wearable screen.
(available in these fine stores!)
The problem with these kinds of devices is usually resolution: It’s hard to pack enough dots into such a small space for it to look right. I’m still hoping for a device that a professor described to me. It’s a laser that paints the back of your retina with an image. The one he tried was admittedly scary, but safe. It was just a red laser, and they were only throwing up text on the “screen”, but it looked crisp, clear, and perfect, he said. If such a device could be made to user full color and eye tracking, we would all gladly abandon the huge TV’s we currently crave.
If you go to Gizmodo and you search for “eye” you can find a link to that very exact thing (red only, as you say).
Correction – not gizmodo, but engadget.
My dreams of completely self-contained editing are soon coming to fruition.
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And then everyone else can just go the fuck away. :)
Or, they can all stand right next to you, glaring at you, for all that you’ll notice or care.
The wireless touch-typer would be awesome, and give me yet another reason to sneer down at people who hunt and peck. ;)
Unfortunately, if you go to the site and watch the demo, it looks like you are, essentially, typing on your thumbs, which makes it far less cool.
Instead, I would like to see a device invented that sits on your carpals (I believe, as in the back of your hand) and reads the movement of your muscles for finger position. It’d either have to have a positional element or link to a wrist band that helped it determine relative hand position.
You could totally extend it from there as well, and have it recognize sign language – both fingerspelling and complete signs and sentences and relay them into a translation program. How freakin sweet would that be?