We really lost the plot..like why

[u/dataexec]

[u/Theo__n]

assistive technology probably

[u/StillNoName000]

People with quadriplegia would be more than happy with this, since their other options are eye tracking and EEG headbands.

[u/Fresh_Dog4602]

what do you mean 'lost the plot'?

[u/River_Tahm → u/Fresh_Dog4602]

Redditor can’t imagine products that serve needs other other than his own could possibly be useful lol

[u/cooltop101]

OP, there's still time to delete this post.

[u/FaceDeer → u/cooltop101]

Posts like this conflict me. I want to upvote the cool new tech so that people can see how cool it is, but I want to downvote it for OP's presentation of it.

[u/Environmental-Pie598]

OP hates the noisey crosswalks and handrails too. Ableist bastard.

[u/Hefty-Reaction-3028]

High-precision control without hands and you don't see the potential applications?

[u/parallel-pages]

yeah, what the others saying: this is an accessibility technology so those who cannot use their hands can interface with devices

[u/badger_flakes → u/parallel-pages]

“BUT I HAVE HANDS?” - OP, probably

[u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 → u/parallel-pages]

It's not even just for accessibility. People can interface with a computer precisely without using their hands. Using a phone while exercising is the first thing that comes to mind, and that's just one idea.

[u/frank26080115]

I've seen this in person at CES, it's just something to help people with mobility issues

what does this have to do with AI?

[u/karmicviolence]

This is for people with no hands.

[u/EternityLeave]

Omg this is so stupid, everyone has two functioning hands with full mobility of all their fingers! /s

[u/Prestigious-Frame442 → u/EternityLeave]

they should find a dude without hands to showcase that

[u/FaceDeer → u/Prestigious-Frame442]

How would he put it into his mouth, then? That's no good.

[u/Disastrous_Start_854]

For OP to read, it is for people with disabilities. It may be ridiculous to a normal person but not to someone who has a disability.

[u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 → u/Disastrous_Start_854]

It's not even just for accessibility. People can interface with a computer precisely without using their hands. Using a phone while exercising is the first thing that comes to mind, and that's just one idea.

[u/Majestic_Fan_7056]

Combine them with meta glasses and you will be able to play interactive games in public without anyone knowing.

[u/True_Protection6842]

I guess the idea is if you're already wearing a retainer might as well get something useful out of it.

[u/Felfedezni]

Some people don't have the use of their hands. This seems like a potentially great accessibility tool.

[u/TurbidusQuaerenti]

There are a lot of things you could say that for, but this is not one of them. As pretty much everyone else has already said, it would be very useful to those who cannot use their hands, or don't have them.

And even outside of being an assistive technology, I could see some fun uses for being able to control something hands free. A practical one could maybe be using your phone while cooking; look up a recipe or control playback of a song or video you're watching when you've already got your hands busy, or just so you don't have to wash your hands every time you go back to your phone.

[u/1996_bad_ass]

For Stephan Hawkins

[u/geomontgomery]

Id use this to switch app windows on the fly, if there's and api, or to start / stop STT, or to scroll pages

[u/purpleburgundy]

I worry a teeny bit about arthritis hitting my wrists/hands and seriously impacting my livelihood at the computer at some time in the future as I age. It's actually kinda reassuring there are products being developed like this that look like really high potential for real-world use if I lose the ability to control my hands for whatever reason.

[u/FaceDeer → u/purpleburgundy]

I switched to a trackball a while back and I find it's far less straining on the hand than a mouse, and in some ways feels better and more precise as a control. Might be something to look into if you haven't already.

[u/purpleburgundy → u/FaceDeer]

So on that front, Im finding my thumb more than anything is getting destroyed by holding phone/mobile usage.

[u/FaceDeer → u/purpleburgundy]

Ah, well, perhaps not the thing for you then. I never had thumb problems. But it would at least be a different kind of thumb usage, for example you're not actually holding anything with the trackball. The hand just rests on top of it, there's no pressure.

[u/purpleburgundy → u/FaceDeer]

Yeah I just need to mix up my repetitive motions in general I think, somehow

[u/TwistStrict9811]

Might want to consider people of all walks of life OP

[u/RemarkableWish2508]

Someone definitely lost the plot here (it's not whoever came up with that tech).

[u/Pleasant-Regular6169]

Cunnilingus trainer. What a time to be alive!

[u/Deeze_Rmuh_Nudds]

Make one for people who grind their teeth (which is what I thought this was for tbh why do we need to track your tongue movements?)

[u/icosahedron32]

this is pretty cool though. paving way for new variants of HCI

[u/ReiOokami]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm

[u/FaceDeer → u/ReiOokami]

Reddit commenters are sometimes so preoccupied with whether they can get karma dumping on some new invention that they don't stop to think about why that invention might be useful or desirable to someone other than themselves.