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Video below. Summary: they had a wrist band from a previous show, connected the terminals on its microchip to their own microcontroller, extracted signals from the wrist band man in the middle style, programmed the microcontroller to interpret the signal, lit up the vest.
I thought it was rather in the spirit of hacker news.
For feature requests, it would be awesome if you posted them to: https://cognitive.uservoice.com/ (I'm also forwarding your post to Bing).
If you want to get in touch with the team directly about a question/issue, the "Contact Us" widget at the bottom of the Cognitive Services page is the way to go: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
http://www.bing.com/partners list all the services/APIs/partnership opportunities Bing offers.
https://dev.projectoxford.ai/docs/services/56f91f2d778daf23d...
For the celebs category, you may also want to read:
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...
Thanks for checking out the APIs!
https://github.com/Microsoft/ProjectOxford-ClientSDK/tree/ma... https://github.com/Microsoft/ProjectOxford-ClientSDK/tree/ma... https://github.com/Microsoft/ProjectOxford-ClientSDK/tree/ma...
Uh, and "real coders" also use Python... :)