Formula 1 racing done right Think your 50 inch Plasma with Xbox gives you the most immersive gaming experience? think again. Swedish company is offering a whooping a 160-inch, 175-degree curved screen with a unique Formula 1 simulator which might ...
GLOBARS – Ultimate LED Handlebar for Your Bicycle
GLOBARS in action (credit: Mitchell Silva) How GLOBARS will work (credit: Mitchell Silva) GLOBARS prototypes (credit: Mitchell Silva) Mitchell Silva, an industrial designer from Boston recently created a prototype handlebar for bicycles with integrated LED lighting. This highly streamline efficient ...
Touche – Disney to Change the World through Touch
Capacitive profiles for sensing body postures (Credit: Disney Research) A truly transformative technology doesn’t come by every day. Disney recently demonstrated a prototype of what has the potential to become one of the most life changing technologies developed in recent ...
Ubi-Camera – Make a Camera out of your Hands
Japanese researchers have been working on a new device that might soon turn the current way of snapping pictures with your cell phone into a thing of the past. Using a tiny device with a built in camera and sensors ...
Best Buy Hints at a 42 inch Apple TV with iOS
42 inch Apple TV with iOS Soon? Rumors that Apple will be heading into the TV business have been floating around for years but it seems that a recent survey conducted by Best Buy might have revealed what influence such ...
Commands Through Movement
The components of a PrimeSense controller. Source: PrimeSense Researchers at PrimeSense in Tel Aviv, Israel are creating new systems that allow television sets and other consumer electronics to interpret body movements as commands. Using cameras, infrared depth sensors, and specialized ...
The Future of 3D Printing
A printed trefoil knot, printed on a CandyFab printer at nearly 20 dpi Source: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories A vase printed with the Z Corp Spectrum Z510 printer. A maze printed with a Desktop Factory printer A series of interlocking ...
Apple and Twitter Most Innovative Cos on Planet
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco California (Credit: WikiCommons) Steve Jobs holds his iPhone (Credit: WikiCommons) Microsoft campus in Seattle Washington (Credit. WikiCommons) FastCompany.com recently released their yearly list of the 50 most innovative companies. Topping the list this year are ...
A New Way To Evaluate Dyslexia
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California have developed a new way to predict whether children with dyslexia will likely improve their reading skills over time or retain early difficulties ...
Sharp 33 Mega Pixel 85 Inch LCD on Dispaly
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (also known as NHK) together with Sharp Corporation have jointly developed an Super Hi-Vision 85-inch LCD – a next-generation television broadcast format. This is a world first for a direct-view display. Sharp Super HD LCD NHK initiated ...