Kinect Powers MOTIV

because of her nose?

Think you might be forgetting that Wii Music was a consumer product and this is a Kinect Hack that’s still in development.

I’m wondering how many people looked at DaVinci’s drawings of the calculator right after he sketched it and said “Sorry guy. This ‘electricity’ stuff is only marginally better than Alchemy (which tanked pretty hard). You might as well call it ‘Abacus’ because that’s basically all this ‘calculator’ thing is doing.”

Not that I’m saying you’re an idiot, Scott – far from it. The simple reality is that there’s historical precedent for the future making zero logical sense during the time period in which is it made; consider how literally only 30 years ago (1981) people were scoffing at the concept of videogames being taken seriously. Like, if a 1980′s parent asked their son what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said anything related to videogames, they’d chuckle a bit and say “yea, when I was your age I wanted to be a cowboy.”

And this IS the future. Today, it’s waving your arms around to organically and spontaneously alter your work environment music; tomorrow, it’s waving your arms to WRITE things, like a thesis or a blog post. No more carpal tunnel, no more cramped fingers or cutting down trees for paper. And the day after that, it’s fine-tuning the spectrum capabilities of the Kinect for use in a rehabilitation program for the partially blind. In a year, we’ll be turning people with total blindness into real-life Daredevils.

Within the decade, open-heart surgeries will be peformed in a totally innoculated bubble-room, where the patient’s surrounded by MACHINES instead of surgeons and nurses, all of whom are OUTSIDE the room “guiding” these machines with their arms and fingers. The surgeon never even touches the scalpel.

This is “The Matrix”-level shit that’s going down, here. It’s “only” arm waving right now because before you can run you must walk, and before walking comes learning how to stand. The baby steps we take today with this MOTIV stuff is going to change human history. I’d be very surprised if it didn’t.

After all, I’m basing the odds of this on my calculations that were done on a machine that was conceptualized, even if not fully understood or implemented, over 500 years ago.