1HDC 10.03 - Gestural Interfaces - Submissions

My concept is Encouraging new music discovery through hand shadows. In a nutshell: user makes hand shadow; it’s detected by an infrared motion sensor + video cam tucked away in a lamp then wirelessly sent to a LastFM/Pandora-like app that interprets the shadows to intelligently determine the song to play.

I choose hand shadows because human hands are highly expressive, and creating shadows with one’s hands adds an element of playfulness.

It feels natural to show like/dislike of a song through thumbs up/down or to control volume by holding up fingers; but the real fun is to imagine hand shadows for particular genres or bands.




I thought of something to help both waiters and patrons in a restaurant. While restaurants want to have a dim, ambient mood, patrons often need help in reading the menu. The opening and closing of a menu would increase and decrease the luminosity of the closest light, helping the patron read the menu easier. It would also help the waiter to know when the patron is ready to order, especially in settings where it may be difficult to see the menu placed on the table.

Hell yeah.

this idea is for “handless” car key . it is a part of your key chain as usual, but it activates (unlock the door) only when you are 5 meters from your car and approaching it. it locks the door again when you’re walking away (more then 5 meters). simple :slight_smile:

hate alarm clock !!!

Medical Dosage Tracker and Reminder
The Gesture of taking capsules out by breaking the foil of the capsule strip , can be used to generate signals which could…

  1. Send information to your doctor about the dosage being taken and the frequency
  2. Can be a mobile phone reminder for yourself about the dosage and as a tracker for the the number of tablets taken in a day.

Food Weighing Plate
Plates that get heavier/lighter based on the amount of calories that are on the plate.
The relationship between unhealthy food and weight gain becomes apparent and people become more aware of what they’re putting into their bodies. Could do this with cups too.

Logistically, I know making them feel heavier/lighter would be quite a feat. Maybe it works kind of like the Bowflex dumbbells and the plates are placed on a dock that recognizes the food and sets the representational weight or something better, didn’t really get to think it all out?? Or maybe the first iteration works more like a scale / calorie calculator weighing the food and displaying a count down of the calories as you eat them.

Solve all the problems of sleeping through your alarm, hitting the snooze button in your sleep, or trying to convince yourself that if you turn the alarm off you’ll be able to wake up in 5 minutes and THIS TIME you wont fall back asleep.
This bed has the unique technology of a scale built into the bed frame.
The user selects their weight class upon installation of the bed frame (ie: 125-150, 150-175, 175-200)… don’t worry - the weight can be changed!
The alarm clock is synced to the bed frame and will not turn off until that weight has been removed from the bed.
This technology allows couples to share the bed because the alarm will turn off when the weight of the person who has set it has come off the bed - The other partner can remain sleeping.
It also allows for the possibility for couples to sync two alarms to the bed (1 for each side of the bed).
For all those who convince themselves that 5 more minutes of sleep will somehow really mean 5 more minutes this time - I hope you can appreciate this idea too!

Gesture-2-Gesture
Gesture-2-Gesture is a two-way gestural communication platform. It is based on the non-verbal language that a couple develops after they have know each other for a while.

The communications platform consists of a pair of motion-sensing rings that are worn by each member of the couple. Each person defines a group of gestures that are detected by their ring, which then transmits a signal to their partner’s ring. The partner can then respond with his or her respective gesture(s).

In this manner the couple can communicate privately, even when separated by distance and line-of sight. The result: a two-way gestural interface.

Concept developed and designed by Keith Fraser & Rob Tannen of Bresslergroup

So I came up with two ideas: one is for car keys and the other a trash can:

The car keys prevent you from forgetting to lock your car. They send a wireless signal once all the doors are closed, The key is outside of the car, and he orientation of the key has changed for 3 seconds. Once The car is locked the keys turn green for a second, like a heartbeat, so that you know for sure that the car is locked.

The trash can is simply a can placed every couple of blocks: on any “trash block” there is a track with hand sensors in it. These sensors are able to detect the difference between a hand and anything else, and send the trashcan straight to your location. Kinda fun I think :slight_smile:

both were done in under 15 minutes… should be working on my final drawing project, figured i’d take a break with this though. It was fun!


Taking social networking out of the context of the internet and restoring it to it’s rightful place in the local watering hole, Glow invites bar goers to interact through an intuitive social competition.

Services like Facebook and FourSquare have added an interesting new variable into our social lives by quantifying friendships and keeping record of all of our interactions. Because they reside only on our computer screen they lack the richness of a real social environment. They attempt to mimic real social gestures with poor substitutes like friend requests and pokes. Glow combines the best of both worlds.

My concept uses a drink glass embedded with sensors and LEDs. As users make new connections they will cheers glasses with their new friend, a social ritual practiced worldwide. With each cheers to a new glass, the LEDs in both glasses will grow brighter and a record of your interaction will be made. Having the brightest glowing glass means your have met the most people. The color of the LED could even correspond with your “social status” (Single, Taken, etc). The statistics from your night, stored in your glass, could be bumped to your smart phone or printed.

KEEP THE FIRE BURNING
I have recently discovered from talking with girlfriends that once in a serious relationship it is hard to keep things exciting in the bedroom. This is a more common problem than I have ever realized so I took it as an opportunity for this submission. I find that once routine takes over life, making the effort to have sex with your partner often becomes more like a chore. We work, we get home and are tired, we go to bed, end of story. So how can we “keep the fire burning” in the bedroom?

The springs in the bed have the ability to detect rigorous movement. If there has been no indication of sex being had, within three days the bed signals the bedroom lights and stereo to turn on and create a romantic mood. Even if it just causes the couple to laugh together in bed the concept is successful.


concept developed by McCauley Wanner

This might be carrying on from the last ‘One Hour Challenge’ on E-readers.
I love reading books, but the clinical interface of current E-readers doesn’t thrill me.
I like the texture and feel of books and this idea is to help bring back this lost tactile feature as well as use the gestures/actions that u might use with a conventional book to navigate in an E-reader.
the concept is simple - to replicate the presence of pages, 3 sides of the device have 10-15 fin like protrusions (top, bottom and one of the sides) that are flexible and can be bent.

the navigation is separated from the screen but is intuitive and carries over from how you used to with a normal book

  1. To go to the next page - just pull the first fin up
  2. To go to the last page - pull the last fin down
  3. To bookmark a page - dog-ear the top corner (it’ll flatten back out)
  4. To move quickly to a page - fan through the page edges (“scrolling”)
  5. Jump to table of contents - pull all pages, but the first one, downwards
  6. Jump to index - pull all pages, but the last one, upwards
  7. Jump to the next chapter - quickly turn the page edge twice (like double clicking - and similarly for the last chapter)

the best part is that you can use the same device if your left handed or if your reading in a language that reads from Right to Left by just turning the device upside down!

Warming / Cooling Bed Cover

The Beatbox Bike.

How can we get more people to stop driving so much and ride their bikes more?

Perhaps by harnessing the positive experience in driving and making those available on the bike.

The Bike BeatBox gives every rider the cool feeling of crusin’ through town, air in their hair and the music turned up. Each bike has its own rythym - largely determined by the riders habits and the environment they are riding through. The sound alerts other road users of your presence, and you feel distinctive and noticed.

Just imagine, cruisin through town with a bunch of your friends, a jam session going on in the middle of the street; or perhaps everyday on your morning commute you ride for a block or two with some stranger, just making music. Wouldn’t that just make you smile?

In the future, no one makes an ass of themselves by drunk dialing an ex, co-worker, friend or family member to tell them “how they really feel.” What a magical world indeed.

A ROOM WITH A VIEW a personal ‘window’ for a room with no views

we sometimes find ourselves with rooms at home that have no windows or we simply don’t like the views of that window.
with this ‘window’ we could bring some light to a room while choosing our own view, in a very intuitive way, improving our mood and quality of life.

… we all love to look out the window…

Here is my idea:

It’s always hard to keep up proper hydration levels (consider athletes and people trying to lose weights), so I thought of a water bottle system that would react according to the amount of water that is consumed throughout the day. It would remind you to drink water with a set of pulsating color LEDs if you haven’t kept up with it and would reward you with a nice green glow if you achieved the target quantity by the end of the day:

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Wilson:

I first imagine a smart phone, with the touch screen wrapped around a bounce ball.

The actual concept is a smart bounce ball, with a touch and pressure sensitive surface, and also accelerometers and a microphone. The ball learns from the user movements and identify him from the way he bounces, tap and slide fingers in it. And also from the tunes the user sing while playing with the ball. During daily use, the ball will be able to record it’s user behavior, so will know when it’s taken from him, or lost.

You can replace any password or identification token you use with this ball. The way you handle, touch, bounce and sing or talk will be your unique id. So Wilson could replace your house or car keys, credit card and user password in any place.

But the main idea is use Wilson as a geolocation device, every time you bounce the ball in one place, you will automatically check-in in all your previously synced with the ball. This is the way it will also uses to never get lost.

My other one didn’t take very long, so I decided to use the extra time and make one more quick.

Wake Up Blinds
Blinds that open when it’s time to wake up. The bright sunshine is accompanied by an alarm.
As an added benefit, blinds and alarm are synced to a sleep monitoring system (like Zeo) and based on the amount of REM sleep you got the night before determines if a snooze should be allowed.
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