It's no mind reader, but MIT researchers Brandon Taylor and Michael Bove's "bar of soap" device should be able to tell you what gadget you're pretending to use based on how you hold it. Loaded with 72 capacitive sensors and a three-axis accelerometer, the prototype has a small screen that says what it believes you're pantomiming -- camera, phone, PDA, gamepad, and remote control are demonstrated in the accompanying video. In a slightly more realistic / entertaining example, a baseball is stuffed with sensors and used to determine what kind of pitch you've. Bove speculates the idea could potentially be used for high-tech golf clubs that tell you how incorrectly you're holding it or power tools that don't work unless you're gripping it the right way, and while we're sure there's other, more beneficial uses, we're really looking forward to figuring out why we
always seem to slice right.
posted February 18th 2009 8:03AM
Put it on your lap and it starts vibrating
put it up your bum and its a butt plug.
Put in both your mouths and its Soap...
so you can wash that foul mouth of yours
It looks fragile, I'd avoid dropping 'the soap.'
Sorry, that was bad.
It only drops if it knows you want it. :)
LOL, just don't take it with you to prison shower :)
as opposed to slicing left?
Golfing term
could be a lefty golfer
Lefties of the world unite!
It knows just what you want when you drop it as well.
"power tools that don't work unless you're gripping it the right way"
What if you can't hold it the "right way" because you chopped off a couple of fingers the last time you used power tools?
Buying gadgets which require more fingers than you have generally point in the direction of other issues.
Then you should stop using power tools.
Then you need more fingers.
This is actually a legitimate question, I was gonna post it myself. Some of us, even if we haven't already scarred our hands or lost fingers, have damaged joints or poorly-repaired broken fingers that change the way we use our hands.
Understand that life isn't easy for some people; there are people who can't afford their heating bill and have to cut and split firewood to heat the house. Believe me, even if you're doinitrite that's hard on your hands.
If it was in powertools it would save companies a ton of money not needing safety classes. Since if you change the orientation of say a saw then it suddenly stops..... Would suck if you had to fend off zombies during a viral outbreak.
@ Hackettman
OBVIOUSLY there would be a safety override you could engage in case of zombie outbreak or you had to juggle chainsaws to impress the father of your girlfriend.
"...a baseball is stuffed with sensors and used to determine what kind of pitch you've. Bove speculates the idea..."
What kind of pitch I've what!?
I think he the whole verb.
I think he accidentally the whole verb.
if i pissed on it would it know its an iphone?
You cannot use a contraction like that. It just doesn't make any sense...very bad grammar.
You can't use such a contraption (i mean the soap). Very little application.
You always slice right because you're right handed... if the ball went left, it would be a hook.
After I took delivery of my "Bar of soap", Al Gore was mysteriously drawn to my home, where he pronounced that Global Warming had been suspended in my vicinity.
Yes, I had perfect weather: no flooding, no tornadoes, the exact amount of rain necessary, and he pronounced sea levels exactly right and that they were not going to rise within five miles of my house.
Additionally, my cars began achieving 200 mpg and I didn't even need gasoline. I was able to put three grams of cat litter into the tank and drive forever.
What's more, the atmosphere inside my home became 93% oxygen and virtually no carbon dioxide. In fact, I now exhale oxygen.
One heck of a device.
DEAR MIT researchers Brandon Taylor and Michael Bove
you have made the NEXT tech breakthrough and you guys are thinking about golf!!!!!!!!!
imagine a device you hold all the time which changes as you hold... from mobile to camera to remote, from PDA to Remote, from remote to universal remote......you get the idea..
I would like fair percentage of this Patent Idea... thanks google
...right, and all I wanted to do was just take a bath.