The Tablet Toy that Gets Physical
21.儿童用互动平板计算机
Like many kids, Pramod Sharma’s daughter loves the iPad. But “when her face is glued to the screen, six inches away, all day long—I wasn’t too happy,” he says. So the ex-Google engineer and his former colleague, Jérôme Scholler, devised a way to bring virtual play back into the real world. Osmo’s “reflective AI” attachment enables the iPad camera to interpret physical objects—allowing kids to mimic an onscreen pattern with colored tiles, for example, and get rewarded for doing it correctly. “Many kids can play at once,” says Sharma, “so it becomes more interactive and imaginative.”
和许多孩子一样,夏尔马的女儿也非常喜欢玩儿iPad,但是夏尔马说:“当她整天都捧着它,像是把脸贴在上面似的,我真的很担心。”所以这位前谷歌工程师和他之前的同事一起设计了一种方法把虚拟游戏与现实世界结合在了一起。这款Osmo是一个包含应用与配件的学习工具套件,可以将iPad平板电脑变成以孩童为中心的增强现实装置,比如让孩子按屏幕上呈现的图形摆放彩色卡片,做对了就可以获得奖励。“孩子们可以一起玩,”夏尔马说,“这带来更多的互动,也能激发孩子们的想象力。”
The Coaching Basketball
22.智能篮球
This basketball comes embedded with nine sensors and a Bluetooth chip that sends performance data to a mobile app—allowing players to measure, say, the arc of their jumpshot. If something’s off during game play, the voice of a coach (via the app) can even implore you to “go faster” or “snap your wrist.” “We get excited when we see someone improve,” says Michael Crowley, whose company, InfoMotion Sports Technologies Inc., makes the 94Fifty Smart Sensor. And apparently, that’s happening a lot: Crowley says InfoMotion has sold close to 100,000 balls.
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