Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.
Our Favorite Story of the Week
Sesame Enable: A touch free smartphone for people with disabilities
Our favorite story this week comes from an Israeli startup named Sesame Enable, who invented the world’s first touch free smartphone. The Sesame Phone is specifically designed for people with disabilities and it uses voice and motion detection to operate.
For Giora Livne, a former navy commander and one of Sesame’s cofounders, a touch free phone means reclaiming his privacy for the first time since an accident left him quadriplegic seven years ago. See the link below to learn more about Sesame Enable and contribute to their IndieGogo campaign.
Image courtesy of Sesame Enable
More Facial Recognition News
Communication for deaf people might be changing forever
MotionSavvy, a California-based startup, has engineered a case for tablet computers called UNI that can serve as a virtual sign-to-voice and voice-to-text interpreter. UNI also uses computer vision combined with machine learning to understand a person’s signing style over time and improve translations.
Forbes
In a few years, we might all have our own 3D body avatars
At Kairos, we’re always interested in hearing about innovative use cases for new technologies. We enjoyed reading this article on Body Labs, a company which describes itself as “the world’s most advanced 3-D body modeling platform.” Body Labs have managed to lower the cost of body scanning to $200 and have used their technology in a wide range of fields from crime investigation to apparel design.
Fast Company
An app to tag your iPhone photos by their content
An excellent use of computer vision technology for non-creepy purposes, a new app called PhotoTime uses object detection to analyze your camera roll photographs and tag them according to their content (no, they don’t store your data). While it is not perfectly accurate for every photograph, it was quite successful in tagging the embarrassingly high number of cat photographs on our designer’s phone.
The Next Web
As always, if you are creating something cool or interesting with the Kairos API let us know and we will feature it in a future newsletter or on the website. No matter what, we would love to hear your feedback.
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