Top TechTop Tech #42: Emotions detected, industrial AR Helmet, a Universal language
Highlighting interesting or important innovations with long-term promise.
By Paul Worthington
Today’s Top Tech:
• Developer detects Emotions
• AR Helmet aimed at industrial work
• App applies “Universal language”
Developer detects Emotions
A London company claims it can track your emotions through a webcam or smartphone.
Last week, Realeyes received $3.9 million from the European Commission, the Wall Street Journal reports.
It’s automated system is based on tech from Oxford University that tracks six basic emotions. Now, “thanks to the technological advances of cloud computing and the popularity of webcams, we’ve constructed an online coding system which can process and report results from all over the world in seconds,” the company says, “dramatically improving the viability of the technique and scaling its potential.”
The technology can also automatically detect a person’s gender and age bracket, the Journal adds, “but Realeyes could merge the information with other data sets to build a more specific profile of a person.”
There’s more information here.
AR Helmet aimed at industrial work
A “Smart Helmet” combines a sophisticated display, and sensor hardware, and computer vision.
Developer Daqri says its hands-free wearable display has transparent optics that provide always-on functionality, readable in both low light scenarios and bright ambient conditions.
The “augmented reality sensor package” uses an industrial-grade inertial measurement unit, a high-resolution 3D depth camera, and 360-degree navigation cameras, the company says. “The hard-hat tracks movement and displays a real-time overlay of a graphical model over whatever you’re looking at on the dual-screen HD display,” Digital Trends reports, “which is protected by a clear visor.”
The Helmet also provides video recording, photography, 3D mapping, and alphanumeric capture, “allowing the Smart Helmet to read and understand signage and instrument data.”
There’s more information here.
App applies “Universal language”
A new 99-cent app might let you “be understood by almost anyone, anywhere.”
Talk Different is billed by vendor Sogeti as a Universal Language that is “smooth and simple to use with attractive graphic standards and animated Trumps.”
The app uses 700 images, colors, icons and sounds to create messages based on alternative communication techniques a mother developed to interact with her autistic daughter, Phys Org reports here.
“Sequences of visual elements form “picture phrases” combining image, text and voice so you can illustrate a daily situation, an action, a request, an emotion or any other word to help you converse or write a message,” the company says.
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