Comments on: NextFest 2: Hand Gesture Controlled Surgery and Tom Cruise http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/ Transforming medicine and fertility with tomorrow’s technology Tue, 15 May 2012 12:50:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Microsoft Touch Screen - Surgery VR Potential » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-21229 Microsoft Touch Screen - Surgery VR Potential » docinthemachine Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:42:49 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-21229 [...] What is unique about the screen is that it is a collaborative touch table interface.  That is, multiple users can interact and manipulate objects.  While they claim Microsoft has kept this under wraps for 5 years it is not a new concept at all.  Heck, even Minority Report ( my surgical version here) used this concept in its image manipulation scenes.  [...] [...] What is unique about the screen is that it is a collaborative touch table interface.  That is, multiple users can interact and manipulate objects.  While they claim Microsoft has kept this under wraps for 5 years it is not a new concept at all.  Heck, even Minority Report ( my surgical version here) used this concept in its image manipulation scenes.  [...]

]]> By: Gesture Control: For the Surgeon and the iPhone » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-2103 Gesture Control: For the Surgeon and the iPhone » docinthemachine Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:21:37 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-2103 [...] Read about the concept of gesture control in medicine here and and see videos here.  I am sure this idea will make it to the operating room of the future.   « New Swallowable Pillcam Aims to Sniff not Just Look |   [...] [...] Read about the concept of gesture control in medicine here and and see videos here.  I am sure this idea will make it to the operating room of the future.   « New Swallowable Pillcam Aims to Sniff not Just Look |   [...]

]]> By: Army Axing High-Tech Soldier of Tomorrow- MedTech Losses Predicted » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-551 Army Axing High-Tech Soldier of Tomorrow- MedTech Losses Predicted » docinthemachine Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:58:31 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-551 [...] Computer/Radio Control is over a portable radio with miniature flat screen.  Allows soldiers to exchange information and videos in real time.  Menus are controlled with a remote input device attached to the soldier and activated with a finger touch. Medical Applications:  information exchange for alternate visualization and new surgical gesture controls.  [...] [...] Computer/Radio Control is over a portable radio with miniature flat screen.  Allows soldiers to exchange information and videos in real time.  Menus are controlled with a remote input device attached to the soldier and activated with a finger touch. Medical Applications:  information exchange for alternate visualization and new surgical gesture controls.  [...]

]]> By: Weston http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-468 Weston Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:42:34 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-468 Is anyone here a follower/believer of Scientology? Do you think Tom Cruise is a good spokesman? He had the leader of Scientology go with him and his bride on their honeymoon and now some critics are saying his wedding was a sales pitch for Scientology. Is anyone here a follower/believer of Scientology? Do you think Tom Cruise is a good spokesman? He had the leader of Scientology go with him

and his bride on their honeymoon and now some critics are saying his wedding was a sales pitch for Scientology.

]]> By: New 3D Microendoscope- Analysis of How It Differs and Its Potential » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-152 New 3D Microendoscope- Analysis of How It Differs and Its Potential » docinthemachine Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:25:02 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-152 [...] I am very excited about recent reports of tiny scopes to look inside the breast or into the spine or into the brain.  I belive microendoscopes will continue to evolve. This report is impoin that this is a new type of endoscope that uses a different mechanism for providing the image.  The system allows radically smaller scopes and potentially provides a 3D image.  THis opens up the potential for remote imaging and for computer modification of the images- the two topics I belive define the future of endoscopic surgery.    [...] [...] I am very excited about recent reports of tiny scopes to look inside the breast or into the spine or into the brain.  I belive microendoscopes will continue to evolve. This report is impoin that this is a new type of endoscope that uses a different mechanism for providing the image.  The system allows radically smaller scopes and potentially provides a 3D image.  THis opens up the potential for remote imaging and for computer modification of the images- the two topics I belive define the future of endoscopic surgery.    [...]

]]> By: mr skin http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-59 mr skin Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:22:54 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-59 I really liked Minority Report and the futuristic ideas it had. Are there any plans to make a sequel? I really liked Minority Report and the futuristic ideas it had. Are there any plans to make a sequel?

]]> By: Teenager Plays Mind-Controlled Video Game » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-57 Teenager Plays Mind-Controlled Video Game » docinthemachine Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:37:50 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-57 [...] In the big picture this is another variation of alternative control systems.  I often speak of “gesture controled surgery” where gestures are converted by video to task controls for surgery.  This another way to potentially control surgical taks without traditional hands or instruments.    « World’s Largest Seamless Display- Coming to the OR Someday |   [...] [...] In the big picture this is another variation of alternative control systems.  I often speak of “gesture controled surgery” where gestures are converted by video to task controls for surgery.  This another way to potentially control surgical taks without traditional hands or instruments.    « World’s Largest Seamless Display- Coming to the OR Someday |   [...]

]]> By: Grand Rounds 3.3 Are Up » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-50 Grand Rounds 3.3 Are Up » docinthemachine Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:26:53 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-50 [...] Grand Rounds 3.3 are up hosted by Jon Mikel at Unbounded Medicine.  I really like this site which is on our DITM blogroll.  He is a student in MExico studying to be a surgeon and somehow finds time to blog on medicine and society.  I am honored that my post on what I call “gesture controlled surgery”, Nextfest, and Tom Cruise in Minority Report is included.  Thanks and welcome all grand rounds visitors!   « World’s Thinnest LCD for Cell-Phones Also Good for Surgeon |   [...] [...] Grand Rounds 3.3 are up hosted by Jon Mikel at Unbounded Medicine.  I really like this site which is on our DITM blogroll.  He is a student in MExico studying to be a surgeon and somehow finds time to blog on medicine and society.  I am honored that my post on what I call “gesture controlled surgery”, Nextfest, and Tom Cruise in Minority Report is included.  Thanks and welcome all grand rounds visitors!   « World’s Thinnest LCD for Cell-Phones Also Good for Surgeon |   [...]

]]> By: Grand Rounds 3.3 at Unbounded Medicine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-49 Grand Rounds 3.3 at Unbounded Medicine Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:59:58 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-49 [...] Steven F. Palter introduces his vision of hand “gesture controlled” surgery. [...] [...] Steven F. Palter introduces his vision of hand “gesture controlled” surgery. [...]

]]> By: Another Vapor Projector at Nextfest with Gesture Control Video » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-21 Another Vapor Projector at Nextfest with Gesture Control Video » docinthemachine Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:37:55 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/10/02/nextfest-2-hand-gesture-controlled-surgery-and-tom-cruise/#comment-21 [...] In addition to the fogscreen display overhead as you entered Nextfest there was another water vapor-based projection system.  Heliodisplay from IOtechnology also projects moving images onto a stream of vapor.  They also have an interactive gesture controled version.  Generates the same ideas to me for a gesture control surgical system.  Here my video of me messing with the images.  You can see the mirror projector in the back.   « New Robots with Whiskers- Cut Off Their Hands | Hand Gesture Control Video »   [...] [...] In addition to the fogscreen display overhead as you entered Nextfest there was another water vapor-based projection system.  Heliodisplay from IOtechnology also projects moving images onto a stream of vapor.  They also have an interactive gesture controled version.  Generates the same ideas to me for a gesture control surgical system.  Here my video of me messing with the images.  You can see the mirror projector in the back.   « New Robots with Whiskers- Cut Off Their Hands | Hand Gesture Control Video »   [...]

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