Nov 30 2007'Bar Of Soap' Predicts Your Use For It
The 'Bar Of Soap' comes to us from MIT Media Lab's Brandon Taylor and Michael Bove. The idea behind the device is that it determines its functionality based on the way you hold it. If you hold it like a TV remote then its little accelerometers tell the device to display the appropriate controls like volume and channel. If you hold it like a phone it will act like a phone. Granted the device made doesn't actually have TV remote and phone functionality, just the capability of determining if you're holding it like one. And right now only 60-70% of the time. Making it far less effective than a Wii-mote.
"Bar of Soap" Prototype Detects Intent from Your Touch (You Scoundrel) [boingboing]
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Reader Comments
1. Amy - November 30, 2007 5:10 PM
See the punch line would have been funnier if you said "more effective than a Wii". Which it might be. Have you ever tried surfing the web with one of those things? Terrible.
2. guate6 - November 30, 2007 5:47 PM
From what I gather, it's Wii-mote...but I don't care really...nice to know where the tuition money of the MIT students is going...kind of like at UF...here our money is being taken, and they're still deciding whether they should take more or not...If it were for bigger classrooms or labs or whatever, then I'd support it, but unfortunately, we just expanded our stadium...
Anyway, this product sucks anal pubes.
3. Michael Browb - November 30, 2007 10:40 PM
no, it's a project used to identify how to make a truely smart multifunctional device. I get it, and it's a really good idea if they can make it work reliably.
4. 络龙医搜 - March 16, 2008 6:59 AM
it's a really good idea if they can make it work reliably.