Tag: video

Put that there

In 1979, MIT professor Christopher Schmandt and colleagues developed “Put That There,” a voice and gesture interactive system, in the Architecture Machine Group (that later evolved into the famed MIT Media Lab)(Put That There) allows a user to build and modify a graphical database on a large format video display. The goal of the research is a simple, conversational interface to sophisticated computer interaction. Natural language and gestures are used, while speech output allows the system to query the user on ambiguous input.

The art of the deal

hilarious and insightful.

But Trump of the book is more a-intellectual, in the same way some people are amoral or asexual. The world is taken as a given. It contains deals. Some people make the deals well, and they are winners. Other people make the deals poorly, and they are losers. Trump does not need more than this. There will be no civilization of philosopher-Trumps asking where the first deal came from, or whether a deal is a deal only by virtue of its participation in some primordial deal beyond material existence.

long lost, recently rediscovered at a yard sale: the art of the deal, the movie

Passenger Drones

EHang has shown a drone which can transport humans. The drone will be totally automated, meaning passengers will input a destination and have no control during the flight. This will make the machine safer by eliminating “the most dangerous part of standard modes of transportation, human error.”

2016-10-12:

Flyt Aerospace has flown a person using a personal vertical takeoff and landing inside a hangar. They are taking commercial drone flight systems and combining them for personal flight.