Today I'd like to talk about a truly groundbreaking story from a video I watched on TED. The person who appears here seems to be someone at MIT in the capacity of a researcher. What this person developed, starting from a few programs using simple motion sensors, used a beam projector, a microphone, and fingers of various colors that can recognize motion to combine the 'digital' we experience inside the 'smart devices' we know (for example, things like smartphones or tablet PCs would qualify) with analog, creating analog within digital and at the same time digital within analog.
This person said he would make this software open source, and in that respect I thought it was very socially conscious, and the fact that he handled so coolly (?) what an ordinary person would have turned into a one-person company for personal profit made my good feelings grow and grow. (I know the phrasing is a bit awkward. But I didn't know it would be this hard to find the right modifier.)
The scene of recognizing the movements of fingers, and besides that objects, letters, graphs, and pictures with a camera, and then projecting this back out with a beam projector, can be called truly groundbreaking. This technology of projecting onto a flat surface visible right before your eyes, rather than simply checking it within the small display of a 'smart device' (of course, there could be slightly larger ones like the 10-inch iPad, or 12-inch displays like the recently released EP121, but I want to prioritize what's more portable), is a truly 'revolutionary' technology that adds digital to analog.
You could directly experience a newspaper with videos in it, the kind that would only appear in Harry Potter, and there was also a technology where, if you open your hand and make a certain gesture, a dial appears on your fingers and you can make a phone call directly. There was also a function where, if you make a picture-frame shape with the sensor-equipped fingers, it photographs the object inside it, and a technology that transfers writing written on paper onto the paper you write with on a tablet.
When, before long, this technology starts being applied to reality, I have no doubt that not only Korea but the whole world will be more advanced.
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