Japanese boffin designs glasses for the absent minded Finding your misplaced possessions may soon become a problem of the past. Boffins at a Japanese university have invented a pair of smart specs that recognise objects and record their locations to help you find them later. Image_recog_glasses Prof. Kuniyoshi's glasses remind you where you left things Image courtesy of The …
absent minded you would leave these somewhere. I read (but I don't remember where) that these kinds of seeing devices tend to anger security guards, sort of like dogs and mylar balloons. I would hate to get beaten or shot just because I can't remember where I put my keys on a regular basis.
... if you don't live alone? If you've got a dog/wife/husband/flatmate/burglar you'll suddenly find that everything is badly out of sync.
How would i know if something had been moved or if it was just underneath a sheet of paper on a desk (as is my most common cause of object loss)?
Would it work if the object was rotated/inverted?
Could it tell the difference between an open/closed/part open laptop?
Couldn't they have used those camera-equipped glasses and a HUD? Or made it work with a cameraphone?
And isn't this not actually that huge a step forwards from the Gizmondo and a hundred other Augmented Reality projects?
Also, as someone who routinely walks about with a camera/HMD/belt-mounted first-attempt-at-a-wearable-PC strapped to them, I'd still have to say that it looks rather nerdy and crap. Build it into a hat, at least!
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