{"id":2241,"date":"2009-03-12T20:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2009-03-12T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:25:51","slug":"subtle_gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Subtle Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still get a lot of use out of my aging iPod, but it’s always bothered me that I can’t control it without someone else’s assistance. That may change if a new type of interface that measures facial movements<\/a> gains widespread acceptance. According to the designers, the device–which looks like a pair of earbuds–can translate a raised eyebrow or a nose into specific commands for the attached device. For example, a smile could turn up the volume; a frown would lower the volume.<\/p>\n

This would work great for me, as I can contort my face like a champ. But I imagine it could lead to some awkward moments: <\/p>\n

“Uh, no, ma’am, I was not winking at you. I was just trying to find that great M.I.A. remix I downloaded to my iPod last night.”<\/p>\n

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I still get a lot of use out of my aging iPod, but it’s always bothered me that I can’t control it without someone else’s assistance. That may change if a new type of interface that measures facial movements gains widespread acceptance. According to the designers, the device–which looks like a pair of earbuds–can translate […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-A9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}