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Home automation is fun, but being able to turn your lights on and off from your computer isn't really all that practical compared to a good ol' fashioned light switch... until now.
what I propose is a watch that detects which way your arm is pointing, it also has a small mic inside that recognises
when you click your fingers. Just point at an appliance and click your fingers, the watch relays the information back to the computer which turns the appliance on or off.
some ideas to achieve this (feel free to add your own or elaborate)
1. blue tooth enabled watch with directional and location capabilities
or
2. tight beam infra-red with receivers at each appliance
(?) A Sixth Sense for a Wired World
http://www.wired.co...logy/0,71087-0.html
Apparently a magnet (it should be humyn non-immunoreactive) can interface between your peripheral nervous system and the wonderful world of electricity [LoriZ, Jun 12 2006]
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If more appliances just offered a bluetooth interface, the user would be free to use whatever device is convenient for them. That could include a watch, phone, remote, PDA, whatever. |
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I don't know how to click my fingers. |
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What would help with accuracy is a small, diffused light on an appropriate corner of each compliant appliance. |
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The light would produce a soft glow when the appliance had your watch's focus, so you could distinguish between switching on applicances that are close together, such as a kettle and radio on a worktop. |
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From the user's perspective it would work like the auto-aim focus system in some shoot-em ups. |
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Maybe the 'click-to-activate' system could be enhanced where appropriate with a bit of follow on voice recognition to allow the user give exact instructions to the appliance. |
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good thinking, that small light on each appliance, means you can turn things on in the dark too. |
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Print an infra-red visible barcode
on the devices and have a laser
barcode scanner in the device |
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perhaps the watch could also incorporate a roll detector, so you can turn volume,dimmers etc up and down by twisting your hand clockwise or anticlockwise in the air. |
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