Intel Updates Lego with Image Recognition

http://www.netbooknews.com This has to be the coolest thing to happen to lego since they added the tiny lego men into the mix! What Intel's Research lab was showing off at CES 2011 was blurring the line between real and virtual toys. What you'll see in the video below is 3D image recognition software create a space for the lego toys to play and interact with each other.
A Lego house on "fire" with a Lego dragon then a Lego fire truck even comes on over to put out the fire. If that isn't you're cup of tea you can watch tiny passengers board a Lego train for its journey around a virtual track. This is just a proof of concept demonstration so the real world implications would be not be just targeted at children, after all don't we want the cool stuff first!

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Science & Technology

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• intel lego demo
• visual recognition
• image recognition
• ces 2011
• digital lego
• future of lego
• imaging software
• core i7

[oukiza]

0:40 - 0:42 Fire breathing BUTT

[BigMTBrain]

Cool, but, hmm... will this create a generation of pyromaniacs?

"Setting fires is SO MUCH FUN!! Look at me, Mommy!... I'm a DRAGON! :) "

"Yaay! OK, Little Johnny... now, put out the fire with water from the firetruck ."

"NO, MOMMY! 'The roof, the roof, the roof is on fiyah! We don't need no water... let the motherf-cker burn! Burn motherf-cker... BURN!'"

(jk)

[ExEtHuS]

now little kids can be pyros

[bmw2go11]

i bet it sucks to re-calibrate every time a kid knocks the projector over a few mm

[comebackata2]

All that technology ...

just to play lego

[GelberFisch8]

Cewl..the kids of tomorrow don't even need imagination anymore! ;)

[gabel56]

Damned good Idea

[manolis1994]

It's So Cool!,and is using Intel Core i7 for this!

[chiyerano]

The title of the video sounded much cooler. Seems like a great idea, though.

[TheAvery86]

meh