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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282911/The-end-keyboard-pen--Groundbreaking-airwriting-glove-lets-write-mid-air.html
The end of the keyboard? The glove that lets you write in mid air - and it could be used with Google's Glass
- Sensors allow the system to track hand movements, and work out what letters are being written
- System could be used for computers and mobile phones to allow easy text entry
- Could be combined with systems such as Google Glass - and the project has recently won funding from the search giant
It could be the end of the keyboard - but also the pen.
German researchers have revealed a hi-tech glove that lets people simply write in mid air.
Dubbed the 'airwriter', the system is able to work out what is being written simply by monitoring the position of the user's hand.
The airwriting glove can recognise letters drawn in mid air using sensors. Its inventor claims it could one day even be woven into clothing so people can type anywhere
The system could be combined with Google Glass to let owners of the wearable computer type in mid air - and the project recently won funding from the search giant
HOW IT WORKS
Acceleration sensors and gyroscopes are attached to the thin glove, and track the movement of the user's hand.
During writing, the airwriting system decodes the letters by a pattern recognition method.
Its inventors say it could be used to enter text messages and write emails.
'The airwriting glove is used to write letters into air, as if using an invisible board or pad,' saiddoctoral student Christoph Amma, who developed the system at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
She believes the technology could eventually be woven into clothing so it can be used anywhere.
'The interaction is embedded seamlessly in everyday life,' she said.
Sensors attached to a glove record hand movements, then a computer system captures relevant signals and translates them into text.
The sensors are also able to tell when a user is actually writing, rather than simply moving around normally.
'All movements that are not similar to writing, such as cooking, doing laundry, waving to someone, are ignored.
'The system runs in the background without interpreting every movement as computer input,' says Amma.
The system can recognise complete sentences written in capital letters and presently has a vocabulary of 8,000 words.
'The system has an error rate of 11 per cent, but when it is adapted to the individual writing style of the user, the error rate drops to three per cent,' Christoph Amma says.
To help develop the idea, Amma received the 'Google Faculty Research Award', worth $81,000, raising hopes it could be used with Google's Glass wearer.
The prototype glove is packed with sensors. However, it is believed future versions could be small enough to be simply woven into clothing
'When such a system is combined with the possibility to input commands and texts by gestures, you do not even need a hand-held device,' she said.
Scientists are now working on further refining the method to filter out writing, and making the system smaller.
'This can be achieved with commercial components. An unobtrusive wrist band might be feasible, for example,' says Amma.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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