D7: Fullpower Demos Motion Recognition Engine

At the Wall Street Journal’s D:All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calfornia this morning, a company called Fullpower demonstrated a motion recognition engine called MotionX . The demo was conducted by Phillippe Khan , a tech legend who is the company’s chairman and CEO. (You might remember him from his Borland days.) The system uses accelerometers in creative ways. In the first demo, they show a headset with motion sensor built in - they are using a Bluetooth headset in a Jabra housing, with the insides removed, and new electronics installed. The result is a MotionX headset. Demo time: Khan has assistant on stage with the headset. Khan calls him on a mobile phone to do the demo. He taps twice on the headset to pick up the call. Key is not to hang up. The guy now is running around the stage. Khan says the key is they understand separate kinds of motion, preventing false positives. Second demo is for pedestrian navigation. Headset ... (link)