Wired: Nintendo Co’s popular Wii video game console senses the position of a player’s hands by means of strap-on controllers. The controllers in turn rely on tiny built-in accelerometers. Now, a team from MIT has devised what could be a simpler way to interact with a computer: multicolored gloves that the player wears and the computer monitors through a webcam.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.