Gallery: Em-Sense Enabled Smartwatch Can Detect When You Touch a Doorknob

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    emsense-door

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have come up with a way for our smart devices to sense the dumb objects in our lives.
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    By measuring the electromagnetic signal that conductive objects emit, they were able to classify and identify different objects.
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    Touching your office's door handle could launch a reminder that you have a meeting in 15 minutes.
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    It can sense a refrigerator.
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    Laput envision context-driven apps can be launched simply by touching an object.
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    multi-user-touch

    This technology will also enable differentiation between two people using the same touchscreen.
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