Ubi-Camera frames photos with fingers, fails to name you fabulous (video)

Gesture control's now not restricted to P.K. Dick novels, having firmly broken far from its fantasist scifi roots into practical, everyday use. It is just natural then that those advancements, typically reserved for computing, would bleed into other areas of consumer tech, like digital imaging. For researchers at Japan's Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, that manual dexterity seems to be the following great photographic leap, because the L-squared hand-framing you're aware of seeing photogs mime on TV and picture could finally end up replacing physical point-and-shoots soon.

The team's prototype, dubbed Ubi-Camera, may look more like a mini-cube than mini-cam, however it works rather intuitively: simply hook it onto your index finger, adjust the main target by moving the "viewfinder" nearer on your face for wide-angle shots or further away for close-ups after which snap away using the side-mounted shutter button. The project's not without its hiccups, however, because the in-development unit's infrared sensor, used to see range, may be easily tormented by lighting conditions. Additionally, there isn't any zoom function, as that process is handled entirely in post on a desktop PC. All told, these are really rather small bumps within the road to an inevitable marketplace debut. Next up for IAMAS- Crushing people's heads along with your fingers. At the least, that's on our wish list. Video demo after the break.

From WhatNewsToday.net

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