1.

Mouseless - an invisible mouse[1]

'Mouseless' is an invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical
mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse. Despite the advances in computing
hardware technologies, the two-button computer mouse has remained the predominant means to
interact with a computer. The Mouseless invention removes the requirement of having a physical
mouse altogether but still provides the intuitive interaction of a physical mouse that users are
familiar with. Mouseless consists of an Infrared (IR) laser beam and an Infrared camera. Both IR laser
and IR camera are embedded in the computer. The laser beam module is modified with a line cap
and placed such that it creates a plane of IR laser just above the surface the computer sits on. The
user cups their hand, as if a physical mouse was present underneath, and the laser beam lights up
the hand which is in contact with the surface. The IR camera detects those bright IR blobs using
computer vision. The change in the position and arrangements of these blobs are interpreted as
mouse cursor movement and mouse clicks.

2.ThirdEye - Multiple viewers can see different things on a

single screen
ThirdEye is a new technique that enables multiple viewers to see different things on a same display
screen at the same time. With thirdEye, - We can have a public sign board where a Japanese tourist
sees all the instructions in Japanese and an American in English. - We don't need to have the split
screen in games now. Each player can see his/her personal view of the game on the TV screen. - Two
people watching TV can watch their favorite channel on a single TV screen. - A public display can
show secret messages or patterns. - In the same movie theater, people can see different end of a
suspense movie.

3.Interaction Design related Industries in India[2]

1. Cognizant India, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata
2. HP Labs India, Bangalore
3. Honeywell India, Bangalore
4. Infosys, Bangalore
5. MindTree, Bangalore
6. MicroSoft Research India, Bangalore
7. Motorola Research India, Bangalore
8. Oracle India, Bangalore, Hyderabad
9. Sap Labs India, Bangalore
10. Yahoo, Bangalore
11. Adobe, Noida
12. IBM Research India, Delhi, IBM India, Bangalore
13. MBT, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune
14. HCL, Delhi, etc.
15. Sapient India , Gurgaon
16. Whirlpool India, Delhi
17. Cordys Asia, Vanenburg, Hyderabad
18. Microsoft India Development Centre, Hyderabad
19. Human Factors International, Mumbai, Bangalore
20. MphasiS, Mumbai
21. Patni Computers, Mumbai, Pune
22. SAS India, Mumbai
23. Philips India , Pune
24. Veritas, Pune

4.Merely Human?[3]
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man
and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day,
$15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.
While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of
remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with
wheels attached to a boxy, head-height screen glowing with an image of Mr. Brin’s face. The
BrinBot obeyed its human commander and sputtered around from group to group, talking to
attendees about Google and other topics via a videoconferencing system.

The BrinBot was hardly something out of “Star Trek.” It had a rudimentary, no-frills design
and was a hodgepodge of loosely integrated technologies. Yet it also smacked of a future that
the Singularity University founders hold dear and often discuss with a techno-utopian
bravado: the arrival of the Singularity — a time, possibly just a couple decades from now,
when a superior intelligence will dominate and life will take on an altered form that we can’t
predict or comprehend in our current, limited state.

At that point, the Singularity holds, human beings and machines will so effortlessly and
elegantly merge that poor health, the ravages of old age and even death itself will all be
things of the past.

Some of Silicon Valley’s smartest and wealthiest people have embraced the Singularity. They
believe that technology may be the only way to solve the world’s ills, while also allowing
people to seize control of the evolutionary process. For those who haven’t noticed, the
Valley’s most-celebrated company — Google — works daily on building a giant brain that
harnesses the thinking power of humans in order to surpass the thinking power of humans.
 References
1. http://www.pranavmistry.com/
2. http://www.designinindia.net/everywhere/discipli

nes/interaction-design/index.html
3. The New York Times