Gesture UI is a combination hardware-software prototype that the Japanese carrier is showing at this year's CEATEC showcase in Japan.
Atheer, another wearable computing startup, debuted its software and prototype hardware, which amounted to a bulky pair of glasses that allowed the user to switch between maps, newspapers and games with gesture controls.
The prototype software uses a combination of archive material from the New York Times and data from other websites, including Wikipedia.
The PCB is attached to the watch with a maze of wires, and allows the team to prototype new software and debug the system before commissioning the final miniature board that will go inside the shipping product.
Running off a prototype device, the software was fast, fluid and cleanly laid out.
In return, software employees are barred from seeing prototype handhelds lest they leak details to Sony, Handspring and others.
The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson's got a version two Moverio headset in the works -- so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.
In addition to its newest products, Hillcrest continues to offer several Freespace Reference Kits (FSRKs) to give product designers and software developers all the components, tools, and documentation needed to rapidly prototype motion control devices.
Until then, check a side-by-side test done by the cats over at Animation World Network pitting a prototype Alexa against a RED One equipped with a new MysteriumX sensor and software.
Using hafnium insulators, Intel has built prototype chips that are 45 nanometers wide and run Windows, Mac OS X and Linux software.
Work on the software began in 2001, and was completed last year, although Collomosse said the program was still a prototype and a lot of development would be needed to turn it into a commercial product.
The phone in question was a prototype of the iPhone 4G, which had not yet been released, and the guy was a software engineer at Apple who was out celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday.
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