Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400

Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by swalsh on Friday June 08, 2012 @01:22PM (#4085223)

Imagine you're a clothing company, you get a 60" monitor and hook it up in a mall. Then you take one of these PC's connect a HD camera to it, then proceed to perform some image processing on the picture in real time. As a person walks past the monitor show them walking, but replace their cloths with the companies cloths. That would catch my attention.

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Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by jmsduran on Friday June 08, 2012 @01:40PM (#4085323)

An interesting idea, but I can imagine that under realistic constraints such a solution would look rather tacky, unless the person was standing completely still.

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Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by Estragon on Friday June 08, 2012 @02:14PM (#4085478)

With two or three cameras and a much beefier processor you could probably do a pretty good job.

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Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by planetguy on Friday June 08, 2012 @08:42PM (#4086790)

If anyone wants to actually make that work, I reckon you'd have customers out the wazoo.

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Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by linh on Saturday June 09, 2012 @06:42AM (#4087810)

Oh wow. This is funny. I know someone who spent 2-3 years developing the technology for his phd (it's pretty complex to get it right/good). Anyway, the fashion industry is a pretty conservative industry (weird huh?) so he has a hard time monetizing it even though it has a lot of potential.

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Re:Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400 by minikomi on Friday June 08, 2012 @10:32PM (#4086981)

This exists at the Lacoste store in Shibuya.

Also, this is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_tkYCtIMOc

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