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:
LinkIt 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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My swing has been called a cancer by my friends for years - I've been looking for ways to fix it, but old habits die hard, ya know?
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Gene therapy and research is very important and powerful, but if you perturb a complex system of any kind (in this case, the genome) you WILL ALWAYS get unexpected and possibly terrible results.
That said, good for them. They just got funding forever...
And all these years people have only been focusing on curing breast cancer. Anyone know of a thing called prostate cancer?