Damping-Driven Time Reversal for Waves (physics/collaboration ESPCI) Damping is usually associated with irreversibility. Here, we present a counterintuitive concept to achieve time reversal of waves propagating in a lossless medium using a transitory dissipation pulse.… Damping-Driven Time Reversal for Waves (physics/collaboration ESPCI)
Qbots: nonlocality in swarming nanobots Work in progress in collaboration with Professor E.Fort at ESPCI (Institut Langevin). The goal is to simulate (and eventually realise real programmable quantum hydrodynamics “droplets”. For more: https://dualwalkers.com/index.html… Qbots: nonlocality in swarming nanobots
RATCHAIR A strategy for displacing objects without wheels, by attaching small vibration sources that coordinate wirelessly.… RATCHAIR
HAPTIC GAMES for the visually impaired Computer games for the visually impaired thanks to haptic immersion with the Haptic Radar. … HAPTIC GAMES for the visually impaired
Spatial Physical Computing with the “gluons” A modular construction kit requiring natural manipulation and deambulation (indoor or outdoor) to configure a playful open smart sensor/actuator network.… Spatial Physical Computing with the “gluons”
Acoustic Phidgets: untethered passive controllers from acoustic signatures Sliders, knobs, and other input phidgets made from anything that click or squeak. … Acoustic Phidgets: untethered passive controllers from acoustic signatures
SenseCase: Crafting Deformable Interfaces to Physically Augment Smartphones Minimally invasive, optical based methods to physically augment tablet PCs or smartphones.… SenseCase: Crafting Deformable Interfaces to Physically Augment Smartphones
Facial-gesture controlled diopter-adjustable eyeglasses for presbyopia correction Diopter-adjustable eyeglasses exploiting people’s natural squinting gesture for presbyopia correction … Facial-gesture controlled diopter-adjustable eyeglasses for presbyopia correction
Serial Paintings Filling fractal guides with a stream of colored beads reveal encrypted images and shapes… Serial Paintings
BrainCloud (and Knoweldge Voxels) Imagine being capable of storing and retrieving pictures, emails, music, and in general all sort of multimedia data from familiar things in the path to work: buildings, corners, a park bench, trees and flowers – even people.… BrainCloud (and Knoweldge Voxels)
SKIN GAMES Skin Games takes the concept of ‘immersion’ to a whole new physical level: you are litterally covered by the game. The fact that the user needs to contort to see the graphics on her own body is perceived here as an interesting inherent feature of the Skin Games paradigm.… SKIN GAMES
MOUSE CHAIR A “restless interface” challenges, in a way as subtle as possible, the passive attitude of the computer user. The prototype introduced here detects bad static postures, and produce a subtle feedback which does not interfere with the workflow: the cursor will drift if the person is not sitting up-right in a neutral position.… MOUSE CHAIR
Untethered Robotic Printer Heads A swarm of robots capable of copying/printing/scanning in parallel over large, even curved surfaces. Crawling or flying, they will facilitate printing on large urban spaces (panels, signage), as well as architectural scanning.… Untethered Robotic Printer Heads
LASER AURA The “Laser Aura” is a prosthesis for enhanced emotional expression. Such manga-inspired, emanations may help regain control of one’s own body (biofeedback) as well as give others an instant cue about the person psychological state. For use in the office?… LASER AURA
Invoked Computing Smart environment instantiate affordances suggested by human beings gestures. For example, bringing a banana closer to the ear prompts directional microphones and parametric speakers hidden in the room to transform the fruit into a functional handset.… Invoked Computing
Video Plumbing (aka “Look-ahead”) Video Plumbing (aka “LookAhead”) Tags (car plates) become instantaneous AR windows channeling data from cameras between… Video Plumbing (aka “Look-ahead”)
EARLIDS “Earlids” is a wearable device enabling the semi-voluntary control of auditory gain. Artificial “earlids” represent to the ears what natural eyelids are to the eyes: a fast and efficient reflex mechanism for protecting delicate sensory organs.… EARLIDS
LASER SENSING DISPLAY A modified laser projector capable of sensing as it draws. Applications include dermatology, non-destructive control, and interactive graphics for practical or aesthetic purposes.… LASER SENSING DISPLAY
VIRTUAL HAPTIC RADAR The Virtual Haptic Radar (VHR) is a wearable device helping actors become aware of the presence of invisible virtual objects in their path when evolving in a virtual studio.… VIRTUAL HAPTIC RADAR
HAPTICAR The principle of the Haptic Radar applied to a car. Vibration on a driver headaband, sensors on the car surface. The surface is also composed of panes of OLED as reactive lights. … HAPTICAR
Economically Autonomous Robotic Entities [2007] A reflection paper on economically autonomous behaviors for robotic systems.… Economically Autonomous Robotic Entities [2007]
PARALLAX AUGMENTED DESKTOP A simple metaphor to simulate a much larger desktop space: consider the flat display as a window opening to a cubic space that extends behind the screen (the user head is continuosly tracked by a webcam on top of the display). … PARALLAX AUGMENTED DESKTOP
RETRACTABLE 3D MOUSE A retractable 3d tracking device that can be attached to a desk, clothing, or wearable electronic devices for use as an input interface providing haptic feedback. The system is based on “optical hair module” metaphor, but instead of a laser, it relies on a physical link between a reference base and a graspable extremity.… RETRACTABLE 3D MOUSE
VOLUME SLICING DISPLAY A piece of plexiglass or paper is waved in the air, and a set of projectors project the corresponding slice of a 3D virtual object on this passive surface in real time.… VOLUME SLICING DISPLAY
IT Teleportation An attempt to teleport a physical object through the internet using high speed vision and fast robotics.… IT Teleportation
SMART LASER SCANNER [2004] A “smart” rangefinder scanner that instead of continuously scanning over the full field of view, restricts its scanning are to a narrow window the size of the target. A laser diode, steering mirrors, and a single non-imaging photodetector.… SMART LASER SCANNER [2004]
