AirSketcher Fan Tracks Objects & Obeys Commands

A desk fan is a personal cooling device and it can be placed anywhere around a table to enjoy the refreshing breeze. But a fan with a camera? Yes and it is not a spying device. Keita Watanabe designed the AirSketcher Fan that can track objects around and can be stopped with just a gesture.



The AirSketcher fan has a built-in camera that tracks a particular target, even when the target is on the move. It has been particularly designed to follow humans but with the current technological state it can only follow two techniques namely, AirWand, which can be used to draw the wind path in the air and AirFlag, can be used to command the Fan with the flag.

The target which the fan detects is not currently wearable, so it is not possible for the fan to follow a human but a more developed technology in the future could be used like face detection technology or colour coding of shirts, etc. to make this possible. The AirSketcher was explained in a paper called "AirSketcher: proposal & its implementation to facilitate the use of wind" by Keita Watanabe and his team Masahiko Inami, Shengda Matsuda and Takeo Igarashi.

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