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This Smart Mirror Uses Gestures to Avoid Smudging

This Smart Mirror Uses Gestures to Avoid Smudging

Tobias Weis

By Tobias Weis

Tobias Weis

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Frankfurt, my current research is focused on cognitive vision systems for transportation, robotics and surveillance, I am one of the founders of the RoboCup-Team "Bembelbots" and the Joint Robotics Lab at the University of Frankfurt. I love open source, making/hacking/3d-printing all kinds of stuff, computer vision, machine learning and electronics. With Team /AFK, I will participate in the charity fund-raising rally "Baltic Sea Circle" in June (www.team-afk.de). In my free time I enjoy running, mountain biking, riding my motorcycle and photography.

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Tobias Weis designed this smart mirror to be controlled by voice and gesture so that he can check daily reports without leaving smudges.

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Hacking on the Frontier of Gestural Input

Hacking on the Frontier of Gestural Input

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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When the Microsoft Kinect game controller came onto the scene in 2010, the maker community immediately saw its potential as an input device for 3D scanning, gestural input, and spacial recognition. Initially, Microsoft didn’t like the idea of people hacking their product, but it didn’t stop the most eager among us from successfully cracking the […]

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“Breakout” Game Controlled with Hand Gestures

“Breakout” Game Controlled with Hand Gestures

By Michael Colombo

Michael Colombo

In addition to being an online editor for MAKE Magazine, Michael Colombo works in fabrication, electronics, sound design, music production and performance (Yes. All that.) In the past he has also been a childrens' educator and entertainer, and holds a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang created a game called Hand Breaking Bricks. Rather than use a standard interface for their game, they decided to take on the challenge of using gestural control.

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Kinect Gesture-Controlled RC Helicopter

Kinect Gesture-Controlled RC Helicopter

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

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Impressive Kinect-based gesture-controlled RC helicopter.

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Minority Report-style web surfing with Kinect

Minority Report-style web surfing with Kinect

By Adam Flaherty

Adam Flaherty

I make cool stuff and write about other people making cool stuff on makezine.com. If you have something you think I should see, send me a tip.

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It’s amazing to see all the fantastic Kinect demos popping up everywhere. Just goes to show you that people will go out of their way to do fun things with a product if it’s truly innovative. Take, for instance, this demo from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group who’ve created a Chrome browser extension, called DepthJS, that uses a gesture interface to control a standard web browser using a Microsoft Kinect controller. If you view the accompanying video I’m sure you’ll agree that the effect is strikingly similar to the touch-free UI from the movie Minority Report. I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient method to interface with a browser, but I think it has to be one of the coolest

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