A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
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Liquavista has rolled out a trio of new e-reader display technologies that are currently in a prototype mode, where they tout speedier page refreshes on e-book readers alongside support for video playback. Apart from that, it is hoped that this new technology would change the way Internet browsing on an e-book reader in the near future. (Video)
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Touchable Holographic display was on show over at Siggraph recently. As you will more than be aware, holography cannot really be touched. It’s just floating images that when you reach and grab them your hand slides right through them. (video)
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While most multitouch displays designed to produce sound use a visual mode of interaction, the multitouch interactive Akustisch produces music with not much visual feedback. A new multitouch interface for production, control and manipulation of digital sound, the Akustisch is like a digital music instrument based on a touch interface. Developed by Balz Rittmeyer as a bachelor degree project at the University of Art and Design Zurich, the Akustisch hints to the future of musical instruments.
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Two brothers in Rio are living over the edge — literally: sleeping, working and eating on the side of a building 33 feet up in the air. Brazilian artists Gabriel and Tiago Primo have created a wall with several pieces of home furniture attached to it. (Pics)
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Researchers have developed a stretchable OLED display that can be bent and deformed without breaking. The rubber-like OLEDs are currently monochrome and each have just 256 pixel resolution; however the University of Tokyo team responsible for their development are now working on adding color and increasing resolution.
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By now, people around the world have become used to the periodic provocations eminating from the plastinated human corpses displayed by Gunther von Hagens. But he may have outdone himself in a new Berlin exhibition. (Pics)
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Thanks to a new device called the Media Vehicle we now know what the future control-pods allowing us to manipulate our giant, super strong, battle robots will look like. Although the prototype unit can currently only accommodate an operator weighing up to 132 pounds, the first iteration of the Media Vehicle is impressive.
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The meadows of thin and flexible displays get a much need boost with every demonstration of a flexible OLED display. And what better a place than the CES 2009, to make that difference. Capitalizing on the opportunity, Universal Display has announced to exhibit a new kind of a wrist-worn flexible OLED communication device at Digital Experience 2009, an event which forms the part of the Consumer Electronics Show.
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The time to call-off the unforgettable memories of the DaVinci driving simulator has come. Virtual Driver Interactive dares to offer a highly interactive atmosphere for learning driving via its “VDI Driving Simulator” that puts you in the shoes of a driver.
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The biggest feature of the new Vuzix virtual reality glasses has nothing to do with a new technology.
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Earlier this week, the humble computer mouse celebrated its 40th birthday. While surprisingly little has changed since Doug Engelbart, an engineer at Stanford Research Institute, in Palo Alto, CA, first demonstrated the mouse to a skeptical crowd in San Francisco, we may have already seen a few glimpses of the future of computer interfaces. If so, over the next few years, the future of the computer interface will likely revolve around touch.
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Gone are the days when a picture frame was just meant to display your cherished memories. We have seen different types of digiframes in the past, including the digiframe with built-in photo printer and the singing digiframe.
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