Control the robot with the tip of the tongue

What if you could control electronic devices just by . "licking" lollipops? Or decorate the house with video clips to capture your own artistic performance?

Dozens of interesting, funny and unique ideas of students have been drawn to dissecting, presenting and performing in the framework of the Yahoo University Design Exhibition, taking place right at the Giant's headquarters. This web.

The first exhibition took place in 1990 and at that time, was the idea of ​​Apple's offspring. But then it was handed to Yahoo and became a creative technology playground for young people.

Source: jasonroom Many projects seem particularly attractive. For example, Edible Interface forces visitors to lick lollipops as quickly as possible to order the robot doll to crawl back and forth.

With your mouth and tongue, you can let 4 dolls race together at the same time. A sensor cell has been embedded inside the candy, so that whenever the light changes (due to tongue licking), the computer will immediately sense and activate the doll's movement.

" The tongue is an interactive art ," said Erin Elliott, the project author. " We often use our bodies to control technology, but our mouths and tongues are always two extremely sensitive organs. This is just the original idea and will continue to grow ."

Fly but lack practicality

Another student project Rhonda Holberton impressed by the "horror". At his booth, people encountered hundreds of small balls of paper. It turns out, these are the bills he collected during 9 months.

" I ate them, chewed and then spewed out this round ball ," Holberton revealed. A coffee table is decorated with these "paper balls", accompanied by a video clip of a scene of red lips chewing on vegetable paper.

Feelers is a project that uses technology to amplify touch and hearing, aimed at provoking human instincts. Visitors crawled inside a tent planted with silky grass. An auxiliary audio and video system will amplify their senses to the highest level. Gliding through the grass, you will hear the whispering of the leaves of the leaves rustling.

During the 16-year history of the exhibition, the number of practical and feasible ideas counts only on the fingertips. Still, Larry Tesler, Yahoo's vice president of design, insists their main goal of organizing the exhibition is to "encourage creative inspiration."

" We look for new ideas and want to know what the young generation of designers is thinking about ," he said.

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