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MIT Develops "Kinect of the Future"
itwbennett writes "Using radio signals, MIT researchers can pinpoint someone's location — through a wall — with accuracy of +/- 10 centimeters. Fadel Adib, a Ph.D student on the project, said that gaming could be one use for the technology, but that localization is also very important. He said that Wi-Fi localization, or determining someone's position based on Wi-Fi, typically requires the user to hold a transmitter, like a smartphone for example. 'What we're doing here is localization through a wall without requiring you to hold any transmitter or receiver [and] simply by using reflections off a human body,' he said. 'What is impressive is that our accuracy is higher than even state of the art Wi-Fi localization.'"
a trillion dollars of technology evolution and the best thing they can do with it is spy on people, seems as if the NSA spying isnt an anomaly but deeply ingrained into the culture
a culture obsessed with finding out what other people are doing and by god we will use our best minds and young adults in school to achieve it !
>Using radio signals, MIT researchers can pinpoint someone's location — through a wall — with accuracy of +/- 10 centimeters. Fadel Adib, a Ph.D student on the project, said that gaming could be one use for the technology,
I suspect killing people will be higher on the list of priorities of certain funding bodies.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Using radio waves to track position/movement is VERY far from new. Even imaging through walls is extremely old hat. A control interface with 10cm+/- resolution would be drastically worse than any current game controller.
This isn't for gaming - it's use would be primarily for surveillance and automated 'security' tools of various kinds. It's not Xbox - its NSA/military/creepy 'spy' tools.
Ryan Fenton
If your neighbor is hot, passive IR imaging might be the way to go here.
Have gnu, will travel.
I wonder if the people researching this stuff ever think of the real life implications of the technology. Do they really want a world where they have no privacy even inside their own home or bedroom? not to mention all the people this tech will enable military and police to more easily kill.
I wish I could have a reaction of "oh wow that's pretty cool" but instead it's just depressing. I don't want to go back to the dark ages but I no longer really get enthusiastic with the way technology is moving these days. it's all about making a colder more controlled and confined world where every day people are being made irrelevant and obsolete.
There is no utopia coming where people don't have to work. If you do not produce wealth in some fashion you will be thrown into the dust bin of history to starve to death and quietly die on a street corner somewhere. automation is not going to be your savior. What are we going to do when 90% of the population is unemployable due to the advancement of automation and robotics. What will life be like in that new dystopia where everything you do is fully controlled and monitored by machines in a police state that even George Orwell could never even begin to imagine?
I wonder if anyone even asks these questions anymore I feel like we are running full speed off the side of a cliff and anyone that think's that is not such a great idea is just scoffed at. Technology should be about serving humanity and making it better not about controlling and enslaving us.