By eddie wrenn//published: 14:27 gmt, 1 october 2012 | updated: 10:41 gmt, 2 october 2012

Курс http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2211227/The-Picasso-robots-Ibis-Hotel-creates-artificial-arm-draws-sleep-patterns-toss-turn.htmlLondon.

Painting by slumbers: Robot draws your sleep patterns as you toss and turn

By Eddie Wrenn//PUBLISHED: 14:27 GMT, 1 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:41 GMT, 2 October 2012

If you stay at an Ibis hotel soon, you might need to share your room - and with an insomniac artist who works through the night, no less.

Still, your companion is a silent robot, and he is working to provide you with a personal work of art like no other.

For the Ibis Hotel has employed the robot to watch you while you sleep - hold on, it is not as sinister as it sounds - and paint you an image showing how you toss and turn during your slumber.

Hotels in Berlin, Paris and London are taking part in the experiment, and 40 participants chosen from the Ibis's Facebook page can create their own work of art with nothing more than a good night's sleep.

The hotel chain created special mattresses which are covered in thin grids, measuring heat, pressure and sound.

The 'robot', as it were, receives the data, and plots your movements on the canvas, creating a beautiful design out of your sleep lines.

Naturally, it will depend on your sleep - a deep sleeper may encourage straight and simple lines, whereas if you thrash around all night, perhaps expect something a little abstract to creep in to your paintings.

There is still a month to enter the UK competition, which will give you a night's sleep at the Ibis in Blackfriars, London.

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The vibrating glove that could steer you around the supermarket (and could even help you find your car) Researchers say the glove can guide people's hands using vibration to 'steer' them in the right direction. Uses low cost components and could even use a Phone's GPS to direct pedestrians

By Mark Prigg//PUBLISHED: 10:23 GMT, 11 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:24 GMT, 11 October 2012

If you've ever forgotten where you've parked your car, or struggled to find that one elusive item in the supermarket, a new hi-tech glove you have the answer.

Developed by researchers in Helsinki, it uses vibrating sensors in a glove to steer the users hand towards objects of interest.

They say it could have wide ranging applications, from helping shopper find items in a supermarket, to directing pedestrians about town and even finding a car in a large car park.

The new glove uses vibration sensors to guide users hand towards an object. In supermarkets, it could guide shoppers to the freshest produce or the right aisle.

Researchers at HIIT and Max Planck Institute for Informatics combined computer vision and hand tracking with vibration feedback on the user’s hand to steer them toward an object of interest.

Initial tests found an almost three-fold advantage in finding objects from complex visual scenes, such as library or supermarket shelves.

'Finding an object from a complex real-world scene is a common yet time-consuming and frustrating chore,' the research team say.

'What makes this task complex is that humans’ pattern recognition capability reduces to a serial one-by-one search when the items resemble each other.'

The glove could help users in daily visual search tasks in supermarkets, parking lots, warehouses and libraries.

Ville Lehtinen of HIIT,said: 'the advantage of steering a hand with tactile cues is that the user can easily interpret them in relation to the current field of view where the visual search is operating.

The technology is similar to early virtual reality equipment which was able to make users feel they were in a virtual world.

'This provides a very intuitive experience, like the hand being 'pulled' toward the target.'

The solution builds on inexpensive off-the-shelf components such as four vibrotactile actuators on a simple glove and a Microsoft Kinect sensor for tracking the user’s hand.

The researchers published a dynamic guidance algorithm that calculates effective actuation patterns based on distance and direction to the target.

'In search tasks where there were hundreds of candidates but only one correct target, users wearing the glove were consistently faster, with up to three times faster performance than without the glove', says Dr. Antti Oulasvirta from Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Dr. Petteri Nurmi from HIIT adds: 'This level of improvement in search performance justifies several practical applications.

'For instance, warehouse workers could have gloves that guide them to target shelfs, or a pedestrian could navigate using this glove.

'With the relatively inexpensive components and the dynamic guidance algorithm, others can easily build their own personal guidance systems.'

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