Computer Human Interface

The new Sky wifi smartpen from LiveScribe now syncs your handwritten notes wirelessly to Evernote – as well as the audio it recorded while you were taking them.

Building on the company’s core “OKAO Vision” facial image sensing technology, OMRON has developed a new hand gesture recognition technology compatible not only with Windows PCs, but also Android and iOS mobile operating systems.

A Kinect-driven prototype desktop environment by the Microsoft Applied Sciences Group allows users to manipulate 3D objects by hand behind a transparent OLED display.

An emotion-recognizing computer system has been designed to make the use of automated telephone services less stressful.

Honda's Intelligent Horse concept is a fascinating study in future technologies such as local production, artificial intelligence and additive technology.

Danielle Wilde has created what she calls the most undignified musical instrument ever - when a user bends or stretches into certain positions, the hipDisk generates musical notes.

The PossessedHand system uses non-invasive electrical stimulation of muscles in the forearm to control movement of joints in the hand.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a computer system that's able to recognize and respond to the emotions and gestures of its human user, and outputs its own response via a specially-designed robot.

A dozen subjects with their brains wired up to a computer interface have succeeded in manipulating onscreen images using only the power of thought

Tachi Labs is starting to work on how to break down the benefits of physical human interaction and see how they can be replicated in a virtual world. It's early days yet, and painfully awkward, but it could help stave off 'virtual insanity.'

Researchers from the University of Washington have managed to bypass proprietary software customization barriers by manipulating the image that the application creates on a screen

Students from Imperial College London have developed a gaming system which uses eye movement to control gameplay and consists of readily available, off-the-shelf, cheap components