Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by MichaelApproved on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:36AM
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He his colleagues also want to test SpiderSense on visually impaired people and add more sensors for future trials.
This sounds like it would be a major breakthrough for the visually impaired community. Can anyone here speak on this subject? I'm curious to know if it's truly as amazing as I think it is.
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by andrewflnr on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:09AM
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This is one of those inventions that immediately inspires lust. I want one. Even better, with electroactive polymers or similar can easily see it being incorporated into an unobtrusive undergarment... Or an ostentatious super-suit, for that matter.
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by kenshiro_o on Saturday February 23, 2013 @12:05PM
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I can definitely see some military/security-related applications for this suit; for better or worse...
Anyway this is an exciting invention ! But the downside of the suit is that it does not filter surroundings based on a aggression/negative intent.
Now I don't know how we could easily detect that an individual wants us harm : maybe faster heart rate, he/she is the only one following us and is either walking/running fast to catch up or tails us at a defined pace. Actually is an individual's walking pattern unique?
If yes that could also distinguish everyone around you. Anyway that is the most exciting article I have read today. Time to get some work done now:D
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by kanamekun on Saturday February 23, 2013 @11:16AM
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This would solve a real problem in New York City... pedestrians so wrapped up in their smartphones that they walk right into traffic signs, other people and even into moving traffic!
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by MichaelApproved on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:37AM
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I don't know if OP meant this but you approaching someone means that you are walking or otherwise moving your own body, which creates special challenges.
Things like your own arms waving around your body as you move would need to be accounted for and not detected as foreign objects.
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by TeMPOraL on Saturday February 23, 2013 @04:35AM
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> Things like your own arms waving around your body as you move would need to be accounted for and not detected as foreign objects.
I don't think you need to account for it; your brain will quickly correlate your movements with suit's reaction and filter them out on subconscious level. Brains are very good at that (and that's the reason this suit works well in the first place).
Re:Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'
by rikacomet on Saturday February 23, 2013 @04:58AM
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yeah, its totally going to be a great boon for visually impaired community, specially when these sensors can be made a bit smaller, and one problem is worked out, that is, in a crowd, it may go crazy, so this a lot of field tests away. 7 sensors only, is a great achievement. Also, they would have to work out how to make them waterproof, increase the range to avoid potholes on the road, and vibration setting adjustment.
This sounds like it would be a major breakthrough for the visually impaired community. Can anyone here speak on this subject? I'm curious to know if it's truly as amazing as I think it is.
By hearing alone I can sense almost any human or sufficiently strong electrical presence, especially indoors.
Things like your own arms waving around your body as you move would need to be accounted for and not detected as foreign objects.
I don't think you need to account for it; your brain will quickly correlate your movements with suit's reaction and filter them out on subconscious level. Brains are very good at that (and that's the reason this suit works well in the first place).