NerdHerder is an exciting new kind of motion-controlled table-top augmented reality puzzle game. Players help nerds avoid managers, deal with annoying paperwork, overcome their fear of sports, and chase down donuts, coffee and techie toys!

Nerdherder is an experimental game, created by students in the Augmented Reality Game Studio at Georgia Tech (made possible through the generous support of Qualcomm). This collaborative studio brings together students from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta Campus) and the Berklee College of Music.

Nerdherder grew out of our research into augmented reality game experiences, during which we created many different game prototypes (visithttp://argamestudio.org to see videos of the other prototypes)

All you need for play is a smart phone and a game board downloaded fromhttp://micronerd.net/print. 
For iOS devices, NerdHerder runs on the iPhone 4S, iPad2 and the new iPad. Link to NerdHerder in the app store:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nerdherder/id524351089
For Android devices, NerdHerder runs on recent high-end Android devices with fast CPUs and GPUs. Link to NerdHerder in google play:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.gatech.NerdHerder. 
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Nokia in 2015

Vibrating “Lorm” Glove Helps Deaf-Blind People Send Text Messages

For people who are both deaf and blind, the hurdles in communicating with others can often lead to crippling social isolation. A new “smart” glove by Germany’s Design Research Lab, however, allows its wearer to compose and transmit messages to smartphones or other mobile devices. Based on a hand-touch language known as Lorm, which assigns letters of the alphabet to different parts of one’s palm, the glove includes textile pressure sensors that allow the user to “lorm” onto his or her own hand to compose a message, then transmit it to the intended recipient through the magic of Bluetooth.

Virtual projection lets you share your phone’s screen

Want to show that must-see video to your friends, but don’t want to crowd around a tiny screen? Or perhaps you have an important document on your handset to share during a large meeting. You could try a phone with a built-in projector, but wouldn’t it be easier to use your regular device? Now you can, thanks to “virtual projection”, a system for sharing your screen on to any nearby display.

It works like this: when you hold your phone up to the screen of a computer running the virtual projection software, the phone’s camera constantly captures and compares images from the screen to work out its location. This information is passed back to the computer via Wi-Fi to place the virtual projection in the right place on the screen.

Moving the phone will rotate and distort the image just like a regular optical projector, but it is also possible to turn this off, giving you a stable image even if you move and allowing you to put the phone down. Multiple users can also place images on the same screen, allowing them to work together.

Computerized contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts! Messages and images you can turn on and off would appear in front of your eyes. Scientists have developed a prototype hands free lens; this is the concept of info-vision — the ability to stream data directly in front of a person’s field of vision.

The lenses can be inserted just like normal contacts, and shouldn’t obstruct your field of vision. They are created by Professor Babak Parviz, a contact lens engineer. So far, he has created a lens with tiny components, electronic circuit, a LED light and a antenna that picks up information and power through a wireless connection. The professor believes one day we will stream all our information onto our contact lens.