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Technology - helping to expand our senses
Dear Reader.
Many people believe that the ancient Greek philosopher
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was responsible for classifying
the five human senses of: touch, taste, sight,
smell and sound.
In
general, the definition of a sense is a system
that consists of a group of sensory cells which
respond to a specific physical phenomenon that
corresponds to an area within the brain where
the signals are received and interpreted.
Just
like the air we breathe these senses are inextricably
linked to all our lives as they are central
to the way we communicate, make decisions, and
how we perceive the world.
However
with the dramatic advances in technology, especially
in the development of smaller, more powerful,
computers, plus state-of-the-art mobile communications
providing internet search capabilities, our
world of senses is now being expanded even further.
For
example, Popular Science´s Inventor of the Year
09 - Pranav Mistry – recently unveiled his remarkable
SixthSense System earlier this summer.
According
to Mistry, his SixthSense System is a wearable
gestural interface that augments the physical
world around us with digital information and
lets you use natural hand gestures to interact
with that information.
Using
a camera, a mirror, a mobile phone and a tiny
projector mounted in a small wearable device,
the SixthSense not only projects information
onto walls and physical objects around you,
but it lets you fully interact with the projected
information and the specific object itself through
the use of your hand and arm movements!
Obviously
Pranav Mistry´s SixthSense is a far cry from
Aristotle´s original thinking on the five human
senses, but we are sure that you´ll agree, this
exciting development, which is literally making
the entire world your computer, is just the
start of amazing sensory things to come.
Anyway,
to continue with this topic of signals and responses
to information, we have dedicated this edition
of e-Matters to our expanding range of pressure
switches and sensors which have been developed
to provide you with up-to-date performance information
at-a-glance.
The
European Marketing Centre
SMC Corporation
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