It’s a New Year, we all have our resolutions, the lists are long… I have tucked away a few morsels….but of interest to the groups I correspond with…
I plan to do much less posting of articles this year! I hear the applause, and I agree. I have the tendency to want to share the mother lobe of information, haven’t a clue why, it’s fun for me to pass info on to those that don’t get as excited over a postage stamp as I do… HOWEVER, (i will refrain from bunches of the exceptions) this story is stunning, some folks are so brilliant that I makes me feel as I am qualified to ask if you want the Bride or Groom seating….. If we keep the wheels on this old globe the future is going to be fantastic!! You really should see this short video, WOW! Only 1.47 min so watch it all, other items are controlled via the watch as well….. I will say that Apple really treated me right over my Apple Watch. Since I had a skin cancer a couple years ago I grease myself to the point the watch is swimming in sunscreen and after several months when I took it off the charger the back came off. Goodness, the workings behind the probes are amazing. When I took it in for repair I was to be without it for 3-5 days…instead they gave me a new one….This is typical, I have had them do the same on other items…and you know, while it was being shipped for what I thought was a repair I felt I had lost a friend, I had no idea how much I had come to rely on a wearable….are we spoiled or what! Researchers use Apple Watch to pilot drone, control HomeKit Hue lamps via hand gestures By Daniel Eran Dilger <http://twitter.com/danieleran> Friday, January 01, 2016, 11:54 am PT (02:54 pm ET) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/technology-video/video-using-the-force-no-its-an-apple-watch-flying-this-drone/article27969572/ <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/technology-video/video-using-the-force-no-its-an-apple-watch-flying-this-drone/article27969572/> Engineering students at Taiwan's National Chung Hsing University demonstrated a clever use of the motion sensors in Apple Watch to interpret hand gestures, enabling them to remotely control real world devices akin to the science fiction fantasy depicted in Star Wars. The Force Awakens: use the Dong A group of five researchers, including civil engineering PhD student Mark Ven and University professor Yang Ming-der have been working at PVD+ since 2013, developing software they call Dong coding to interpret hand gestures, notes a report <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-watch-drone-idUSKBN0UE14Q20160101> by Reuters. Simply wearing an Apple Watch provides enough motion controls—thanks to the device's gyroscope and accelerometers—to allow the researchers to pilot a Parrot AR Drone 3.0 using hand movements, or alternatively turn on Philips Hue HomeKit lamps using a clap, then activate a given color by tracing the outline of a character (such as drawing out a "R" to turn the lamp red). Ven demonstrated using PVD+ software to fly a drone in Taichung City (above), where he was interviewed by Reuters. Ven also demonstrated using Apple Watch to remotely control a Sphero robotic toy and control HomeKit-capable <http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/29/whats-next-for-apple-in-2016-a-focus-on-homekit-apple-pay-maps-ecosystems> devices. "Previously we've needed complicated controls to fly drones, but now we can use a wearable device, and through human behavior and gestures directly interact with them - using a hand to control and fly drones directly," he said. PVD+ is seeking to patent and commercialize the technology, which appears to be an interesting new application of wearables, an emerging market Apple entered over the past year with Apple Watch, which it rapidly turned into a $7 billion <https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/682626410624737280> business across its first 9 months on the market.
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