Clenching Your Teeth for PowerPoint
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Written by John
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
It used to be that it was just the audience clenching their teeth while watching a PowerPoint presentation. Not any more. Now the presenter can clench their teeth to control the flow of their presentation. Clench on the left to go back, and on the right to move forward.
Japanese researchers have developed head gear that uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer to let people control devices by clenching their teeth.
The system could also allow users to flip through pages of a PowerPoint demonstration, allowing the presenter to gesture freely by clenching teeth instead of pressing buttons.
Gesture freely? Right!
It takes one second to decide if you are chewing food, getting angry at the device not working, or giving a command. This is going to make for some strange pauses in the presentation. Now, if only they could add voice recognition. Then all we need is to add a command "moo".
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