Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes 137
tinkertim writes "Engadget is reporting that Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a personal 'being' assistant, the wearable headphone gaze detector. The device apparently takes notice of what you look at (and hear) and makes note of the more important events in your life that it records. From the article '[the device] is slightly less elegant than the traditional neural implant, with this system you could not only record the goings on of your days and "bookmark" important events, but also train the cameras to feed you information about your surroundings based on QR codes or possibly eventually object recognition; think of it as augmented aural reality triggered by giving a passing glance.'"
"Important events" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Important events" (Score:2, Interesting)
I've often wanted one of these. I surf and kitesurf with my buddies, ever now and then I see one of them pull of a sick trick that I'd like to record and show people.
Re:"Important events" (Score:2)
Then buy a camera and film it.
Better than looking like a Cybermans geeky brother
Re:"Important events" (Score:3, Informative)
Hm, try surfing and holding a camera. Paddling out would be hard and getting up would be impossible.
When kitesurfing you need to hold onto the bar with both hands. Helmet cameras don't follow your eyes and they shake too much for a decient picture.
I guees you don't do sports much :-)
Re:"Important events" (Score:1, Troll)
Actually, I do Jujitsu. Try holding a camera when someone is dropping you on your head. What I meant to suggest was someone NOT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN THE SPORT film it.
I don't think you'ld be able to do anything too active with that contraption on your head anyway. Plus I'd bet it isn't waterproof
Re:"Important events" (Score:1)
NOT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN THE SPORT film it
But this technology already exists. I was wishing for something better that would solve a problem I have. This conversation is wacked out, we're arguing about something I wish I had.
Re:"Important events" (Score:2, Informative)
Re:"Important events" (Score:1)
Re:"Important events" (Score:2)
Or a young Ender Wiggin?
Re:"Important events" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Important events" (Score:1, Offtopic)
Remember she's her own person, and if she's wearing clothes that show any skin she's wearing look-at-me clothes. Granted it's look don't touch, but getting your back hairs up simply at the thought of anyone finding your girlfriend hot enough to glance at is both worrying and hilarious.
Re:"Important events" (Score:1)
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Re:"Important events" (Score:1, Funny)
Re:"Important events" (Score:2)
Seriously, this whole overblown macho "were you lookin' at my wumman?" thing is reasonably common, but I really don't understand it.
Re:"Important events" (Score:2)
Re:"Important events" (Score:2)
What part of "looking at" your gf did you interpret to include "guys whissling at her, making inappropriate comments and suggestions and just.. acting overly annoying as if she's just a piece of meat you'd want to fuck instantly... Or being raped for that matter."? Note that I didn't even actually say anything about recording her, although that was an omission on my part, given the context.
There will always be arseholes who take things too far. That goes
Re:"Important events" (Score:1)
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But the question is... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:But the question is... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:But the question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but now they get to work out your type and give you a heads up display to modify billboards appropriately. Just be careful to keep guys out of your field of vision...
Oh, and if you look at too many 17-year-old girls they tell the police.
Re:But the question is... (Score:1)
Re:But the question is... (Score:1)
Re:But the question is... (Score:3, Informative)
In the U.S. it varies state to state, from as low as 15 (14 under very specific circumstances) to as high as 18.
The hilarious part [ageofconsent.com]? If you happen to live in a '16' state (say Oklahoma), fly to Britain (16) or Spain (14), or any other country with a lower age of consent than 18, and have consensual sex with someone at the legal low end in that country, then pass back into the U.S. and have a layover in an '18' state (Viginia), if the authorities are watching you or get wind of it, you can be held and sen
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Not the most "official" site, but still the one with the most information collected in one spot. Feel free to research any place you plan to visit on your own. I think you will find the website I cited extremely accurate.
Now, if you want to discuss authoritative sources and actually doing your research before you open your stupid yap, try [PDF Alert]this [loc.gov]. Here, I'll make it easy for your limited abilities and highlight the parts that show you a fool:
Re:But the question is... (Score:2)
Argument for source review (Score:2)
I certainly wouldn't want to have some sort of device either implanted in me, or worn on my person all the time and collecting a lot of personal information, which might be phoning home to its masters without my knowledge.
Especially when you get into the
Re:Argument for source review (Score:1)
Nice idea, wrong application (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Nice idea, wrong application (Score:3, Insightful)
I know of studies back in the last century that showed 2D maps of eye-dwelling time on typical page layouts. Those are just made with the typical display-mounted eye-trackers. (They showed for example that the "logo top left" style is so common people search for something there even if the particular page didnt show anything there...
Scary... (Score:3, Funny)
But what about "seeing" with our ears... (Score:1)
Damn... (Score:2)
Re:But what about "seeing" with our ears... (Score:1)
possibly eventually object recognition... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm reminded of (Score:5, Funny)
Hoax? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Hoax? (Score:2, Funny)
So every time you clumsily turn your head and see someone look at you as if to say, "Those headphones make you look like a total douchebag", it will record it for you and presumably play back, "You look like a total douchebag".
Ain't technology wonderful?
Re:Hoax? (Score:2)
I guessing on this, but it's the only explanation for 2 cameras....
-Jar.
Probably not 3-D (Score:2)
How does this work? (Score:5, Interesting)
Still, it seems quite rudimentary compared with other AR projects like Tinmith: http://www.tinmith.net/ [tinmith.net]
Re:How does this work? (Score:2)
We have a similar device at work (headband with a couple electrodes) that will do the same thing if you set the filters to the correct frequency for the eye movement signals.
does anyone carry a daily recorder? (Score:1, Insightful)
Heres a radical suggestion then (Score:2)
Perhaps you should find out about the cutting edge device known as
a "tape recorder" then?
Re:Heres a radical suggestion then (Score:2)
dictaphones since the 1970s.
Re:Heres a radical suggestion then (Score:2)
I have one made by Olympus, and it's OK. Not wonderful, but OK. It uses some strange proprietary way of talking to the recorder (it's not Mass Storage class), so you have to use their software to get the files off of it, but luckily they have software for Mac and it doesn't suck too hard. It records things into an odd format as well, called DSS (Digital Spe
Re:does anyone carry a daily recorder? (Score:3, Funny)
You misspelled "think".
Could the article be any more vague? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Could the article be any more vague? (Score:3, Funny)
detector running (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:detector running (Score:2, Funny)
Re:detector running (Score:2)
Re:detector running (Score:2)
He looks at his shoes while talking to you.
How do you know if a computer nerd is an extrovert?
He looks at your shoes while talking to you.*
Gaze detector activated: shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes...
June the 21st 2006 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:June the 21st 2006 (Score:1)
No thanks, saw the movie... (Score:2)
Re:No thanks, saw the movie... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No thanks, saw the movie... (Score:2)
What happened in the movie? Lots of comments at the funeral about "no wonder his right wrist was so strong"?
Google timeline (Score:5, Insightful)
People have being doing this with varying degrees of success for tens of thousands of years.
Now I have google desktop search installed on my laptop, and it has indexed my life. Everything I've ever seen on this machine for the past year, it remembers and knows about and can search for within seconds (CTRL-CTRL anyone?). Gigabytes of history. Every single web page I've ever visited (except those which I've deliberately excluded by using a virtual machine, torpark, etc). It knows more than I've learned (at least with respect to indexable keywords and strings) in the past year.
It's kind of scary sometimes. There are some things you would want to forget. But it's so darn handy.
Re:Google timeline (Score:2)
So that'd be slashdot and porn then?
"Every single web page I've ever visited "
Is that a good idea? What if you parents get to see it one day
when you're at school?
"There are some things you would want to forget"
Yeah , Anna nicole smith sites can do that to a man.
Re:Google timeline (Score:2)
In the words of The Cat (Score:2)
Apart from making you look like a twat, I'm still non the wiser as to what this thing actually does!
Re:In the words of The Cat (Score:1)
Re:In the words of The Cat (Score:2)
Why didn't he say so in the first place? Silly humans.
Re:In the words of The Cat (Score:1)
This Spells Trouble! (Score:3, Insightful)
These files better be secure
Autoblogger (Score:1)
wtf? (Score:1)
Bike rides (Score:2)
This kind of thing could make Lucas Brunelle [digave.com]'s job easier, for better or for worse...
This reminds me of (Score:1)
Where they implant a chip in your head that records all you do and gives you a movie of their life.
traditional? (Score:4, Funny)
I've just invented a levitating car (patents pending). Sure, it's less elegant than the traditional flying car, but I've never been a slave to tradition anyway.
Augmented Reality (Score:4, Interesting)
Remember that augmented reality is what virtual reality isn't: Useful for everyday life. Imagine a device like this linked with a wearable computer. Imagine it puts everyone whose face you look at for more than a second into a face-recognition search to find out whether you know that person, and if so it shows you some details (full name, birthday, any important details you entered into your contacts database to make sure you never forget about this person) via some unobstrusive HUD.
Or imagine shopping with a wearable computer with online connection which can tell you that the gadget you're about to buy sells at $0.50 more next door, but they have 1 year guarantee instead of 6 months and a much better score on customer reviews.
Or, to simplify it again, just imagine having a device with you that records everything you see in a round-robin storage of just a minute or two - suddenly you can store all those moments that happened two seconds before you remembered to grab your digicam.
Augmented reality is a way cool research subject. If I were in university again, this is where I'd be heading.
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
What happens when we depend on augmented reality to remind us who it is sitting across from us at the coffee shop?
I don't want to sound like a Luddite here, but when your entire existence is dependent on external, technologic
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
True. But why should I? Human brains were not designed to remember phone numbers. There were no phone numbers to remember when homo sapiens evolved. The brain is much better at pattern matching (e.g. recognizing faces) than it is at storing digital data.
What happens when we depend on augmented reality to remind us who it is sitting across from us at the coffee shop?
That ain't the focus.
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
Then again, I tend to take notes about people I've met who I expect to run across again, particularly if they held some interest for me. If an event comes u
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
Nobody knows for sure. However, we do know for sure that repetition aids memory, especially if information is repeated in the proper context so it can be stored there. Almost all "remember names" tricks work that way, by making you associate names with faces in better ways, by repetition and association between name (data) and face (context) so the next time you are in that context (see that face) the associated data (the nam
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
Short answer: yes, we will be dependent on technology. But I'm not convinced that's a bad thing. Sometimes there is a net benefit from becoming dependent on a "crutch." We're obviously dependent right now on writing; there are lots of things that we all really don't know but really just know where th
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
I'd also like to draw a distinction between writing as a dependency and something like augmented reality as a dependency. Writing is intrinsic, a tool for AR is extrinsic. Writing requires no tools that can't be picked up off the ground (a stick in the dirt, for
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
Sure, you can write in the dirt with a stick. But that writing isn't very useful, it's not like writing a book. Useful writing -- producing something that can be passed from one person down to another and easily read, and stored, requires a substantial investment in technology. It's not what we think of when we think "high tech" today, but think of when writing was introduced.
Even training people to write is a big challenge or risk: during the time when
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
If I've learned to write, I'm not going to forget how. But if I depend on an implant, and access to that implant is denied me, I've got problems. Extrapolated across a society, thias gives the makers of the implants or AR devices a TON of 'bargaining' power. People will do strange things when they are faced with the possibility of something like that being tak
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:3, Informative)
See: http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp/ wearables.html [eyetap.org]
For list of many interesting projects and papers on the subject.
For interesting look at overlaying images onto people via facial recognition and such, see:
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp/ ieeecomputer/r2025.html [eyetap.org]
and
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp/ personaltechnologies/ [eyetap.org]
-AC
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:2)
Re:Augmented Reality (Score:3, Interesting)
Some imagine
Oh, great (Score:2)
Traditional neural implants. (Score:2)
Wow.
I mean, I knew I was having trouble keeping up with all the latest in gadgetry these days, but I must really be slipping if neural implants went mainstream and I missed it.
I love carpet (Score:1)
The possibilities (Score:1)
'being' assistant? (Score:1)
Mmmm
*sigh* no fun. (Score:1)
Hmm... Metroid Prime? (Score:1)
Recording (Score:1)
Recording......
Plate, menu, waitress, menu, wife, waitress, waitress' behind, wife's fist, ceiling, wife's shoe, ceiling, wife's shoe, ceiling, wife's shoe,...
End of transmission
Reminds me of Modems and Fallback (Score:1)
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, here's why.
When high speed modems were coming in they had a builtin fallback function whereby if the line was noisy they would slow down and keep the channel open. Sounds good right? Only problem was we had modems that were supposed to be on for days or weeks at a time. Since any line sometimes has problems the modems would get slower and slower over time and never get back to being fast, even after the temporary problem MWA'd ("magically went away"). The only soluti
Major application (Score:2, Interesting)
Millions of people depend on wheel chairs and personal care workers to do almost everything for them. If this gaze detection could be developed a bit more, these people could type (even those without use of their arms or hands) record conversations selectively, operate home lighting and heating controls, and holler for help if they fall or (as frequently happens) a care person fails to sh
But it's... THE FUTURE! (Score:2)
Welcome to the future, fifth Circle, second lava pit on the left. Just follow the ring tones.
Darn! (Score:2)
Great... (Score:2)
The description of the images snapped for me as "important" would read like:
...
6/21/2006, img 30048: Cute blonde
6/21/2006, img 30049: Hot Redhead
6/21/2006, img 30050: Could her skirt be any shorter?
6/21/2006, img 30051: Check her out.
6/21/2006, img 30052: Screenshot of incomplete code, yes I should get back to that.
6/21/2006, img 30053: Whoa! her legs are awesome!
Do I really need my depravity documented with a chronological image archive?
Yeah... actually, I guess that would be nice.
Uhm (Score:2)