Kinsight: Kinect-Based System of Keeping Track of Household Items

The days of losing your wallet, keys, and TV remote may be numbered, thanks to research by computer scientist Shahriar Nirjon and John Stankovic at the University of Virginia in Charlotsville. They've developed "Kinsight [PDF]," a Kinect-based system that can keep track of the location of household items in the room:

It works by tracking people and detecting the size and shape of any objects they interact with. Each object is compared to Kinsight's database for the house and either recognised or added to the list.
By following the location of objects over time, Kinsight can even distinguish between two identical-looking things - if it records a mug that seems to have jumped from the living room to the kitchen without passing through the space between, for example, it knows it is likely to be two mugs. The system can locate fist-sized objects with an accuracy of 13 centimetres.

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Unfortunately tech companies (etc) regularly patent things not because they are possible or because they are working on them but for other reasons (eg: to profit if someone works it out, to block others from developing things, as wild "just in case we need it in 30 years", etc). Just registering a patent means almost nothing about the future chance of things happening. Because the patent system is broken.

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Apple develops a lot of things, and that's why I have a android phone

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This has too much potential for abuse. Imagine beaming images into someone's eyes while he/she is operating heavy equipment or controlling a vehicle - or luring somebody into harm's way. Fortunately, there are bound to be countermeasures.

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