Lending a hand: Chicago Catholic School students build 3D printed prosthetics for people in need

Students from three Chicago Catholic Schools; Alphonsus Academy in Lake View, St. Ann school in Pilsen and St. Malachy school ...
Interesting Engineering

AI turns smartwatch speaker and mic into 3D hand tracking system using sonar tech

In a first, smartwatches track hand poses using AI acoustic sensing without added hardware.Jason Koski/Cornell University Researchers from Cornell University and KAIST have developed a system that ...
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Sonar on stock smartwatches leads to hand-tracking advancement

Imagine tapping your thumb and index finger together twice to skip to the next song or clicking around your laptop or desktop computer without a mouse, using discreet finger motions. New ...
Neuroscience News

Ultrasound Wristband Translates Muscle “Strings” into Robotic Dexterity

Summary: Capturing the complex coordination of the human hand—which involves 34 muscles and 22 degrees of freedom—has been a “holy grail” for robotics and VR. Engineers have developed a wearable ...
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Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

The next time you’re scrolling your phone, take a moment to appreciate the feat: The seemingly mundane act is possible thanks to the coordination of 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ...
The Columbian

Try your hand at crafting a whistle with workshop

If you ever feel afraid, just think how much fun it would be to “whistle a happy tune” with one of artist Kim Murton’s cheerful, animal-shaped whistles. Murton will teach a workshop on how to create ...
IEEE

Unsupervised Hand Tracking for Sign Language Recognition via Optical Flow and Previous Tracking Data

Abstract: Accurate hand tracking is a fundamental requirement for sign language recognition and human computer interaction. However, reliable tracking remains challenging due to the high degrees of ...
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Workshop secrets and hand tool mastery

Workshop Secrets and Hand Tool Mastery!! Why Jamil Jivani thinks there's 'a lot of goodwill' for Canada after meeting Trump Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug ...
IEEE

Tracking Fast by Learning from Slow: An Event-based Hand Tracker Leveraging Knowledge in RGB Domain

Abstract: Event cameras offer micro-second temporal resolution and thus excel in fast-hand-tracking scenarios where conventional RGB cameras suffer from motion-blur artifacts. However, the scarcity of ...
Variety

Harry Styles Reveals Album Track List and Does Hand-to-Hand Combat — and Choreography — With a Stranger in ‘Aperture’ Video

Harry Styles‘ launch of the music video for his new single “Aperture” both puzzled and delighted fans Friday morning — even as a thumbnail image for the clip further intrigued his followers by ...
Road to VR

New Quest Update Brings Big Upgrades to Hand-tracking

The v83 update, which is rolling out now to Horizon OS, is said to increase reliability of hand-tracking in a number of cases, including during fast movements, when used for locomotion, and throwing ...