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EyeTap Electric Eyeglasses, Personal Safety Devices and Systems The EyeTap electric eyeglasses cause the eye itself to become both on people, etc., the mediated vision helps people see better and find a camera and a display for computer-mediated reality that achieves their way better, and generally improves their personal safety. See augmented reality but also goes beyond it, not only augmenting but www.eyetap.org. also modifying. The wearable face-recognizer puts virtual name tags
Lifeglogging: Lifelong Videocapture Since early childhood I’ve been wearing a computer system that Nokia have also been building on this lifeglogging work. The work is captures my life. In the 1990s I miniaturized this into a necklace with known by many other names such as lifelogging, lifeblogging, CARPE, fish-eye lens and various sensors (wearcam.org/neckcam.htm) and or lifestreaming. We now have a community of more than 80,000 presented this work to Microsoft as the Keynote Address of CARPE “cyborgs” online and research continues into the mobile multimedia in 2004. Microsoft has subsequently manufactured a similar product iPhone apps, as well as versions built inside the eye sockets of the called SenseCam. Other companies such as DARPA, HP Labs and blind. www.wearcam.org/funtain.htm
Musical Instruments and Other Human–Machine Interface Inventions This research looks at innovative human–machine interaction based from the CPU fan. The research is based on Karman Vortex shedon arrays of air jets, or the like, to create volumetric tactile input devices ding across bluff bodies, like the shedder bars in the hydraulophone such as air typing, in which the fingers move through space and inter- (underwater pipe organ) and turbulences as a form of input and output act with air currents. We’ve also developed a computer keyboard that medium. This research goes beyond what’s possible with thehydraulohas no moving parts. In place of each key is a finger hole, supplied by phone; take a look at this video and then imagine the possibilities when a system that detects restrictometric parameters of air flow of waste air we miniaturize it and use air instead of water: vimeo.com/14018088.
Physics-Based Modelling Using Presement and Absement Velocity is the time-derivative of position or displacement; differentiatFor example, the amount of water flowing through a valve is the ing once more gives acceleration. But what happens when you take absement of how open the valve is, i.e., the time-integral of the the time-integral of displacement? The result is something called openness. Other examples of absement arise in hydraulophonic absement. Integrating again gives absity. Integrating once more gives sound production (sound from vibrations in water: see www.wearcam. abseleration. Absement, absity and abseleration arise in fluid flows. org/absemen.
Mojahedi, Mo
Engineering the Electric and Magnetic Dispersive Responses of Artificial Media Many of our modern conveniences are the consequence of our ability these various delays, indices or velocities — the dispersive effects — to control and modify the behaviour of naturally occurring materials by synthesizing artificial materials and designing novel systems. These and to design and manufacture artificial materials and systems with systems in turn allow us to control and manipulate the amplitude and novel properties. In electromagnetic theory, the behaviors of materials phase of voltage or current waveforms and/or electromagnetic pulses and systems are characterized according to the so-called “dispersive in order to achieve a desired outcome. For example, the paradigm of effects.” Depending on the researcher’s area of interest and expertise, dispersion engineering has been used to demonstrate unusual behe or she may use different terminologies such as delays, indices or haviours such as negative or superluminal group delays and negative velocities to characterize the same dispersive effects. Despite these refractions. In addition to scientific interest in such unusual behaviours, different nomenclatures, fundamental and important relations exist dispersion engineering has been used to design more functional among the various delays, indices and velocities. The dispersion enmicrowave devices such as broad band phase shifters, efficient gineering paradigm formulates our attempts to control and manipulate antenna arrays and interconnects with reduced latency, to name a few. www.mogroup.utoronto.ca
Nano-plasmonic and Nano-photonic Devices Performance of computers is expected to eventually reach its fundapower consumption compared to their electrical counterparts. mental limits in terms of speed, bandwidth, power consumption and However, there is a major problem with optical interconnects and electromagnetic interference. The problem lies partly in the degrading waveguides. The optical mode size and hence the device size, are apperformance of electrical interconnects. Unlike transistors, in which proximately proportional to the operational wavelength. In other words, functionality increases with miniaturization, the functionality of electrical while transistors with dimensions of approximately 50 nm are common interconnects degrades substantially with miniaturization. One sugges- today, the micron size of optical devices makes their integration with tion is to replace the electrical interconnects with optical interconnects, electronics difficult. Surface plasmon polariton (SPP) — surface waves which do not suffer from signal latency, limited bandwidth or high at the interface between a metal and dielectric — may provide a www.ece.utoronto.ca | ANNUM 2013 | 69