CES: Glove Input

January 9, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 8 Comments

The peregrine looks like it could actually be a useful tool. We’ve seen several people make glove input devices over the years and this looks like a quick and easy way to get one going. It touts over 30 touch points that are user programmable. Really, it works more like a keyboard wrapped around your hand than any kind of motion or flex sensing. It could probably save you some time if you are headed that direction, but at $250 you might just want to build your own.

[James] – For those looking to make your own, Adafruit offers both flex sensors and force sensitive buttons that could help you work on something like this.

CES: 3d Tv, Without Glasses

January 9, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 22 Comments

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We were hoping to get to test drive some of the 3d televisions that don’t need glasses. We had speculated about how they worked, and we were mostly right. It appears to be some type of lens that works similar to those little printed holograms. The strange thing is that we haven’t seen any of these TVs in the big name booths. The few that we have seen are in little booths at the edges. The big names are usually doing the polarized glasses or shutter glasses.

“it was nice not wearing glasses”… yeah, I know, I’m wearing glasses.

CES: Keepon Keeps On

January 8, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 10 Comments

We could not walk past KeepOn without checking it out. Not only did we get to check it out, we got to control it. [Caleb] picked up a wiimote and started tapping out a beat and KeepOn started dancing. It was as adorable in person as it is in the videos. We think it is horribly overpriced as is though, so we still enjoy the home made one.

We think the reason that KeepOn is so emotive is possibly because they have avoided the uncanny valley by a long distance. Video after the break.

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CES: Laser Instrument

January 8, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 1 Comment

This instrument caught our eye. It is a Laser device that looked like it could do midi input of some type. We played a little bit, but really weren’t too impressed. You know why? We’ve seen better.

[James] – Way to be hackers.

CES: Update Friday Jan8, 2010

January 8, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 6 Comments

[Nick] finally made it in, we got some sleep and we’re ready to rock and roll. We are now all officially wearing our custom 3d printed badge holder (stay tuned for more on that).

We finally got our twitter feed sorted and intend to be posting updates there as well on small things and locations.

CES: Parrot AR Drone Update

January 8, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 8 Comments

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Here’s a small update on the AR Drone from Parrot. We finally got this video uploaded. It isn’t anything fantastic, but you get a good view of the board on the bottom of the device. You can clearly see a tiny camera in the middle and what looks like sonar range finders toward the front of the drone.

As some commenters have stated, this looks like a more robust platform of the X-UFO. We haven’t seen the X-UFO, but the salesperson even mentioned it. Check out some flight video after the break. We’ve shot some flight video of our own that we’ll have up soon. Continue reading “CES: Parrot AR Drone Update” →

CES Multitouch

January 8, 2010 by Caleb Kraft 8 Comments

Here, [Devlin] can be seen playing with a multitouch setup. We inspected it and found 4 lasers, located in the corners. We are pretty sure we have seen this exact setup before. There wasn’t really much of a booth there, so we played with the TV and then kept moving.