{"id":15656,"date":"2015-01-18T19:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2015-01-18T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T00:06:09","slug":"product-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15656","title":{"rendered":"Product placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working with some colleagues on a new technology — a rollable mat that functions as a kind of “video camera” for pressure. If you stand on it, it sends to your computer or smart-phone a high quality time-varying image of your feet, toes, etc. Below is a typical image of that (with different pressures shown in different colors):<\/p>\n

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You can also lie down on it, bounce a ball on it, or use it as a rug under a chair. It’s very versatile.<\/p>\n

We’re making them 2ft × 3ft in size, and they will wirelessly communicate with smart-phones, tablets or computers. We want lots of people to be able to use them, so we’re trying to make them very inexpensive. It looks like we’re going to be able to sell them for just $199 a pop.<\/p>\n

You can also put them side by side to create a single giant sensor. At NYU this spring we’ll be using 96 of them, to create a 24 ft by 24 ft pressure imaging floor for our motion capture lab.<\/p>\n

We want to make these mats available to the world, but we need to do so in a self-sustaining way. In other words, whatever people use it for needs to be something they are willing to pay for. Otherwise, we will just run out of money and we’ll have to stop making them.<\/p>\n

People have expressed interest in using them as game controllers, for posture and balance assessment, to help practice golf swings, and as exercise mats. Other people would like to use them to help identify people. For example, if the mat outside your front door recognizes you by the way you step onto it, it unlocks the door for you.<\/p>\n

You can also just use one to weigh yourself. Roll it up and take it with you on a trip, then unroll it when you get there, and you have a smart scale that can send your current weight to your favorite smart-phone app.<\/p>\n

Personally, I want to use one of these, together with my GearVR virtual reality headset, to create a meditation experience. I sit on the mat, put on my VR headset and headphones, and enter beautiful and calming alternate worlds, where I can fly around on my magic carpet.<\/p>\n

I’m curious if anyone has any favorites among these ideas, or if you see some other cool use that we haven’t thought of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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