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Google Gmail Motion Beta
PB8 noted that
Google
Googol
Gilgamesh
Gesus
has been following all the kinect
hacking
innovation
stealing
time-wasting
projects that have been floating around the net, and decided to use
motion
moron
sandwich
CowboyNeal
detection along with a rich visual vocabulary including common gestures and American Sign Language to accelerate your gmail time. This is going to require a bit of a change in my email composition since normally I use those
gestures
middle-fingers
thumb-bites
hair-pulls
to vent frustration.
A day you don't even have to read the headline ... sweet.
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I *so* hate April Fools' day on the internet.
Really the "fake news story" thing stopped being funny about 1992...except for The Onion, they still do a good job at it.
-Styopa
I've been giving Outlook gesture commands for years, but it has never responded. Perhaps with this new competition, and their ownership of kinect, Microsoft will finally support gesture commands.
Does this new technology supports writing Spanish emails?
Slashdot ya no es que lo era!
Can we not place all the April fool jokes into one slashdot post with the appropriate links. Otherwise we end up like last year with 10 stories spamming the front and anything interesting being pushed out of sight.
Obviously you say April Fools however the best jokes are based on some fact and the fact is I know of at least 2 senior and talented devs that worked on MS Kinect project and around release time jumped ship to Google.
eg My old friend Ryan Geiss is one who co-wrote the skeletal tracking for Kinect is now at google.
http://www.geisswerks.com/about_natal.html
This was my first thought after coming across it... and I found Opera's much funnier
it's April Fools day
not April Mad Libs day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A device that could translate ASL into text could be very useful to people who know ASL, and a great training tool for those who don't.
This is like having a headline, "Exoskeleton lets paraplegics walk all day, just $5000", then when people click on it, saying "April Fools!"
On the other hand, if this inspires someone to create just such a product, then more power to them.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
They've also inadvertently solved charades!
Oh this would be fun! I could flip off my email and have it automatically respond to the spam email I get! Either that or have it solicit more penis enlargement ads...
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
I can't believe the blatant racism Google is showing here. Clearly, this technology should have been implemented to recognize standard Nicaraguan Sign Language instead.
Be assured, I will be writing a stern letter to my Congresscritter.
...that's enough with the April's Fools Jokes. Can we actually get a real story on the front page at some point today? Also, am I alone in thinking that these sorts of "jokes" are completely pointless at this point? I mean, everyone expects it and can spot them from a mile away. Isn't the point of an April Fool's joke to, you know, fool people?
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Dear *wack* *wack*
I would like to *get off* work early today. My friend is *cuming* to visit.
C'mon, that's just stupid. You couldn't come up with something better than this for April Fools?
Unsubtle, unfunny and utterly unlikely to fool anyone sentient enough to have learned to read.
Really, what is the point? If these are the best you can manage, then just don't bother.
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This Gmail Motion idea could be utilised in various places in the Internet - not only Google sites E.g. on porno sites (.xxx) there is the possibility to use a sort of regular sliding motion (using the left hand in a closed position around the well, you-know-what!, to give feed-back to the site as to its (the site's) effectiveness. Don't let Uncle Steve Balmer catch you at it though. He might think that you have a thing about Google and might start yelling Developers! Developers! Developers! (again)
I caught a couple of people out with this today.
Then I thought about it.
Actually this would be useful especially with something like the xbox kinect system or a webcam.
E.g. Doing something like cooking and "virtually" turning pages using motion capture via the webcam.
I enjoy cooking and trying to use my notebook to read through a recipie while my hands are covered in dough is no fun.
It's a matter of time before someone does this for real.
Conservapedia is extra-conservative today.
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In the video, you a see a lady who gestures a lot with her hands while talking. I kind of expected a subtitling of what her hands said while you heard her talking.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Great one, this. But I still yearn for good old pink slashdot
Stupidity is an equal opportunity striker.
Fellow slashdotter Bill Dog
God help us all if they implement an Italian version of this.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
It's a wiki history diff show:
'''[[Barack Obama]] finally produces his birth certificate!'' [[April Fools]]!
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Would it look like sign language to someone who didn't know sign language? It only needs to be vaguely passable to be plausable before the viewer catches on that its a joke. Kind of like the old BBC program that had pasta growing on trees being harvested, it only had to look somewhat realistic (which some people actually believed I think).
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That is NOT American Sign Language
RTFA. They know it's not ASL.
it's a joking mockery of sign language
It appears that this experiment is in an ad-hoc sign language designed to be understood by those outside sign-speaking subcultures, not unlike the home sign used by deaf children of hearing adults. The article implies that they plan to add translation from ASL in a future release, including a quote from someone in accessibility who is "eagerly awaiting the next version with ASL".
Oh look! Who'da thunk it...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Deaf / mute people need speech recognition software, too! Where's Dragon Naturally Signing?
As an aside - is it rude to sign with your hands full?
faster! faster! faster!
Would it look like sign language to someone who didn't know sign language? It only needs to be vaguely passable to be plausable before the viewer catches on that its a joke. Kind of like the old BBC program that had pasta growing on trees being harvested, it only had to look somewhat realistic (which some people actually believed I think).
The Spaghetti tree hoax. Yes. But TFA doesn't claim that it is ASL, that's almost my point. TFS is adding to the joke.
WARNING! This girl exceeds the MAXIMUM SAFE standards established by the FDA for BRATTINESS
I don't know what that link is meant to be owing to never going to Conserveourpedos, but I get a 403 forbidden.
I suppose that I should have mentioned that Conservapedia has a 403 server-side block for entire swaths of the internet... Apparently, some countries are too liberal to even view Conservapedia...
WARNING! This girl exceeds the MAXIMUM SAFE standards established by the FDA for BRATTINESS
Breaking News! Google Gestures will tomorrow be called Google Fitness! The new public health care system that while you read your stuff you can still eating your mcdonalds or donuts and will lose weight! Say goodbye to your Gym that you forgot where it is and go read your e-mails right now! Lose weight! You will start to love spam too! Google... Making people health!