Disney Develops "Touchscreen" for Everyday Objects - Neatorama

Capacitive touch on your smartphone's screen (like the ones on your iPhone) is neat, but you know what's REALLY neat? Sensing touch interactions on every day objects.

Here's Touché from Disney Research (yes, that Disney): Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Wired

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I'm confused. How is the system sensing the gestures?

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I think it can only sense the change in touch, for instance from a one-finger touch to a grip.

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when the sofa senses the user waking up

it will make you breakfast and buy you cigarettes

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"Dear Allied Insurance customer,

Biometric data from your household indicates that you are not active enough and sensors have automatically reclassified you as Sedentary. In accordance with this change, your monthly insurance rates will now be raised by 40 percent.

Should sensors register Active househould readings for a period of six months, your rate will return to normal."

Regards,

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I’m confused. How is the system sensing the gestures?

Regards

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Listen to Cars 4 Kids' radio ad. tune.

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Wikipedia said this: "It is argued that this song is the single most performed and most translated piece of music on Earth"

I have never heard that song before. Ever.

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Of course! hateful people hate innocence most.

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I, too, was trapped on this ride for about 45 minutes when I was a very young teen. The repetitive music quickly becomes a form of torture that has been recognized and banned under the Geneva Conventions, and the creepy, dirty, cracked and peeling animatronic dolls were frightening.
I refused to go on this ride ever since.

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It's lovely! How can you hate on ''It's a Small World"? Dude. I saw it with my folks when I was a child and I STILL remember it. It's sweet. Sweet is fine, you know. Kids like sweet. So do many adults.

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The song "Dominique" drives me insane.

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I love It's a Small World, and the song is magic to me.
Then again I love accordions, banjos, synthesizers, harps, and organs.

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As a kid I was trapped in this ride for 45 minutes because it broke down.

I still have nightmares...

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I go to Universal because I can't stand that 'song'. Universal has better stuff, anyway.

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Children's Choirs. Uuuugh. I, however,like it's a small world. I like to drive my husband crazy with it, but he is always amazed that I know all the words. It really is a short song...

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I can understand people not liking bagpipes, accordions, banjos, or synthesizers, even though I'm quite a bagpipe fan. But harps? The harp has such a beautiful sound!

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