Flyfire: mini-helicopters create futuristic 3D display
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics, Robots on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The basis of most 3D systems is to "trick" our eyes into believing that an image shown on a flat screen has three dimensions, but what if you could throw away the screen entirely! It sounds simply too far-fetched and impossible to choreograph, but that’s exactly what researchers MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics [...]
Displax ‘skin’ turns virtually any surface into multi-touch display
Posted by admin in Electronics on 07. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
One doesn’t have to look very far these days to see the ever increasing prevalence and popularity of multi-touch technology and the additional interaction it offers the consumer. Opening up an even bigger world of potential interactive possibilities is Portuguese company Displax, which has announced the development of a “skin” that can turn virtually any [...]
Vuzix display Wrap 920AR augmented reality glasses
Posted by admin in Wearable electronics on 14. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments
Forget looking at the world through rose colored glasses – try these on for size. Video eyewear manufacturer Vuzix has unveiled its Wrap 920AR glasses prototype that features cameras mounted to the lenses that project real world images onto LCD’s inside the glasses, seamlessly mixing real-world and computer generated imagery. The glasses incorporate a camera [...]
