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2008-04-13

Tangible Acoustic Interface

Tai-Chi – Future Interactive Interface

European researchers are working on what they call a “tangible acoustic interface", which will allow users to convert virtually any tangible objects such as table tops, walls, and windows, into interactive surfaces. The advantage of these new techniques is that they are not limited to objects of a specific location or size like keyboards, mice, and touch screens, and can enable users to interact more intuitively with computers wherever they are.

clipped from www.taichi.cf.ac.uk

Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction

clipped from www.taichi.cf.ac.uk

Continuous tracking with least square optimization (MEC video clips)

Interactive Information Panel (video)

Tracking of continuous sources (PoliMi Video clip)

2007-12-22

Anti-Aging Drugs

A new class of drug could slow aging it, but what are the implications ...

clipped from blog.wired.com

Anti-Aging Drugs Could Change the Nature of Death

A new class of drugs aimed at age-related physical and mental deterioration could change not only the nature of life, but of death.

But that being said, it's still worth thinking about how the nature of death could change, if only to prepare ourselves for possible upheavals or examine our own relationship to one of life's inevitables.

Quick and unexpected deaths are not uncommon, but most deaths occur with some forewarning. What would life be like if most natural deaths came unannounced? How might our culture be different? Might we be more loving in an everyday way? Or would we become more anxious than ever, jumping at every unexpected knock on the door?

DeGrey posed another hypothetical: what if anti-aging drugs are successful against some but not all diseases, leaving a single disease -- such as Alzheimer's -- as the most common cause of death?