You might know, from previous posts, that I’m working with different kinds of push-to-talk (PTT) activation solutions. One of those is the PTT glove, which I will present at the Intelligent Environments Conference next week (07/21/08).

Today, we just got the first media attention event for the glove: it is featured on a very interesting blog about wearable computing, talk2myshirt.com/blog.

This blog came to my attention, while I was searching the web for commercial glove interaction solutions. The site has a very nice collection of these products. I like it, that wearable IT accessories are neatly categorized: gloves, hats, shoes, skirts, etc, even ties!

This may sound like a cliché, but it’s always good to communicate with other bloggers, professionals, researchers, etc. If I’m not aware of other solutions similar to mine, I might think that I invented PTT gloves, but it’s always good to get a reality check by seeing if anyone else had a similar idea before. Communication can also help co-operate with others and figure out what the real problems of a particular field of research are.

A good contra-example for this is the Miss Universe event. How can we have a Miss Universe, when only humans participate? Did we research all possibilities of life on other planets (not just in the Solar system) before declaring a human to be Miss Universe? What would the Klingons have to say about this (if they exist/ed)?

Oszkar Palinko

Hello eceblogger readers!

I am an avid reader of the news site slashdot.org (commonly known as /.) which had an article I thought to share with you all. It was a link to sciencehack.com which is a site that contains links to videos submitted by the public on the popular site youtube and Metacafe. One thing they do differently however, is that before the videos go live, it is reviewed for accuracy by someone specializing in the field of the topic of the video. It is a new site with already quite a collection of interesting videos.

Some cool videos that emerged in my browsing of the site, is the answer to the problem that has troubled me and many others is how to solve those silly Rubik’s cubes. A cool solution to dead AAA batteries was also posted here. All I ever did was wind wires around the two electrodes of the 9V batteries, and watch the battery heat-up/melt/explode. Important topics like vectors are also explained. There are other interesting and valuable videos on the site that make you a smarter person, or force your parents to kick you out of their basement. Either way, it is definitely worth checking out.

Andras Fekete