Sharing storytime
November 5th, 2009 by rbanks
Storyplay: Nokia and Sesame Street create video conferencing in a book
“Researchers from Nokia’s Research Center have been working with the Sesame Street Workshop to develop an interactive learning experience that grandparents and young children can enjoy no matter the distance between them. The Storybook features a wooden frame that opens out like a book. The frame contains sensors that detect the title and open page of a real story book placed on it. Above the book placement area are two touchscreen, Linux-powered Internet tablets. These house a webcam, speakers and a microphone. They’re connected to each other via Bluetooth and to the page sensing hardware via USB. The left screen is for Sesame Street character Elmo and the right screen features a “custom GUI video conferencing application built with PyQT and the open-source telepathy stack.”" 
Gizmag
