The acts of writing and drawing have been largely altered since the arrival of the computer. While the computer is certainly convenient, we have lost something important: hand writing recognition does not have the subtle sensorial experience of writing on paper with tactile pen and aromatic ink. » Continue Reading

Platforms, the latest series of work in The Aphrodite Project, is a pair of sandals that are both a conceptual homage to Aphrodite and her prostitute-priestesses as well as a practical object for the contemporary sex worker. An integrated system of shoes and online services, Platforms uses the latest technology to bring sex workers on par with other public workers, whose lives are valued highly because they work in dangerous professions that serve the needs of the community. » Continue Reading

The IntelliMat is a wireless PC designed to work on the floor. It is less than an inch thick, and is designed to be walked on and have carts pushed over it. The IntelliMat has a gently slopping ramp that fits snug to the floor making it easy to walk on, or effortlessly roll a shopping cart over. It is in fact designed to be walked and rolled on. Its four 15 inch LCD screens are powered by one single small voltage electrical cord that plugs into any regular wall outlet. » Continue Reading

amBX is shorthand for ‘ambient experiences’. Driving the next generation of home entertainment, it’s a scripting language, a software engine and architecture. But it’s what amBX does that makes all the difference.
With amBX, multiple devices in your room work in harmony to deliver new entertainment experiences: surround lighting, sound, vibration, air movement and other effects. It takes what’s pretty much a ‘virtual’ activity - games, DVDs, music - and turns it into a far more tangible, immersive experience. » Continue Reading

Hitachi has unveiled industry’s first AirLocation II Tag which is a Wi-Fi active RFID tag. The new tag enables wireless LAN position detection and management of people who enter and leave buildings and it also has an emergency message function. It would be possible to track the position of the people inside the building with this tag. » Continue Reading

What few thought possible has now come true: wide-format digital photography. With a resolution of 7,500 pixels vertically and 21,250 pixels horizontally this camera creates a 160 million pixel image. Seitz 6×17 Digital
This substantial resolution makes it possible to create high quality reproductions. A variety of different formats is possible: 6×6, 6×9, 6×15 or a full 6×17 panorama. No limits for high definition photography! » Continue Reading

The world’s first radio capable of accessing over 99% of internet radio stations broadcast on-line anywhere in the world. Compatibility with all three major streaming formats gives the AE Wi-Fi radio unrivalled choice of content from London’s BBC Radio1 to Sao Paolo’s Radio Calypso! No subscription to pay, no signal coverage problems, no pops and crackles and no international content boundaries. » Continue Reading

The display of 2D images is fundamental to nearly all forms of visual presentation, and pursuing display methods based on insight of human perception may reveal many new possibilities. Information display should be thought of as a conjunction of both the human and the device, and there are still many resources available on the human side. Here, we propose a 2D information display system, which uses perceptional features during eye movements. » Continue Reading

TWISTER (Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope) is an immersive full-color autostereoscopic display, designed for a face-to-face telecommunication system called “mutual telexistence”, where people in distant locations can communicate as if they were in the same virtual three dimensional space. » Continue Reading

3D scanning, 3D laser scanning, and/or 3D digitizing is the process of converting physical parts into 3D digital models. These digital models have endless uses, some of which include: machining parts directly from the 3D scan data, reverse engineering, quality inspection, rapid prototyping, archiving, design, analysis, and more. It is a fast and accurate way to insert a physical part into your Computer Aided Design (CAD) system. We work with a wide variety of 3D scanning technologies that can scan objects ranging in size from microns to 100s of meters. Some scanning systems are touch probes but many are non-contact, and some can even get internal features as well. » Continue Reading

Believed to be the world’s tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and a HTTP web-server the iPic Web Server is a complete micro-computer on a single chip. And at less than $1, it seems poised to get your next toaster talking to you through the internet. Using very carefully hand-packed TCP/IP code of about 256 bytes and a HTTP 1.0 compliant web-server, » Continue Reading

Siemens has announced a new colour display screen that can be printed onto paper or cardboard and is thin, flexible, and affordable enough to be included in books, magazines, labels, tickets, instructions, multimedia games embedded in the breakfast cereal box and a host of other traditionally “dumb” media where clarity of the message is vital – such as the dosage instructions on drugs, installation instructions for people who » Continue Reading

Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) today announced the results of a magnetic recording demonstration, setting a world record of 421 Gbits per square inch (421 Gbit/in2). The demonstration used perpendicular recording heads and media created with currently available production equipment that validates Seagate’s ability to scale the technology for the foreseeable future without major technology changes or capital additions. Dr. Mark Kryder of Seagate unveiled the findings during his keynote presentation at the IDEMA DISKCON show in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the hard drive. » Continue Reading

Recently announced, Bluetooth 3.0 is the new Bluetooth wireless standard currently in development by the Bluetooth SIG and Wi-Media Alliance. The new standard is reportedly up to 130 times as fast as current Bluetooth wireless transfer speeds, and builds upon the previous standards. Though we most likely won’t see any of these devices on the shelves until early 2008, the technology has the potential to revolutionize the consumer electronics industry. » Continue Reading

WiMAX (World Interoperability for Microwave Access, Inc.), based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, is expected to enable true broadband speeds over wireless networks at a cost point to enable mass market adoption. WiMAX is the only wireless standard today that has the ability to deliver true broadband speeds and help make the vision of pervasive connectivity a reality. » Continue Reading

Spintronics (a neologism for “spin-based electronics”), also known as magnetoelectronics, is an emergent technology which exploits the quantum propensity of electrons to spin as well as making use of their charge state. The spin itself is manifested as a detectable weak magnetic energy state characterised as “spin up” and “spin down”.
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With lower rates and a service that covers 90 percent of Taipei’s population, Wifly — the wireless service launched by Taipei City Government — yesterday announced that the whole city is now wireless.
Taipei began planning its network in 2003. Mayor Ma Ying-jeou made the Wi-Fi effort a centerpiece of his “Cybercity” campaign to give Taipei an edge over other Asian cities. “This will increase the cutting-edge competitiveness of this city, and make the life of our citizens even more convenient,” the mayor says.
Taipei’s early success flows partly from its position at the center of the world’s high-tech supply chain. Taiwanese companies such as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and Accton Technology Corp. make a large share of the world’s wireless-networking gear » Continue Reading

Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is a revolutionary memory technology that can replace many of today’s semiconductor memory technologies. MRAM combines the speed of eSRAM and the non–volatility of Flash onto a single chip. MRAM uses magnetic moments, rather than an electric charge, to determine the on–off state of the memory bit cell. It allows a single memory solution to replace multiple memory options within one chip—helping to enable faster, more cost–effective solutions for next-generation memory–intensive products. » Continue Reading

See all the contents in only one page is widely used for statistics in the form of the so famous cake/Pie view or the chartsbar. there are books and many other stats view techniques but the way it is used on websites or to see the contents of your files and folders in only 1 page is reather difficult to achive. News Maps Visually analyze the current headlines in an easy to use single graphical view » Continue Reading

The future of user interfaces for computer technology looks fascinating and full of amazing surprises. After having showcased the eery magic of seeing images displayed into thin air, user interface researcher Jeff Han guides you to see how amazing will be working with computers once we will have gotten rid of mouses and will begin to draw and manipulate screen objects directly with our fingers. » Continue Reading

Philips Research intends to impress the visitors at this year’s IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic advertisements, graphics and constantly changing color surfaces. The Philips stand in Hall 22 will act as a showcase for the Lumalive textile products that will be worn by Philips’ hostesses and embedded into booth furniture of the Future Zone. » Continue Reading

The Radius 320™ incorporates three 20.1″ LCD panels into a continuous display system with a total resolution of 5.76 million pixels. With the individual panels wrapping around the user, the Radius 320™ provides an ergonomically-friendly viewing experience across a 50-inch diagonal. » Continue Reading

RoboBar can work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without breaks, vacations, holidays, sick time (or hangovers).The RoboBar E (Entertainment) model uses the robot to handle cups with one arm and liquor bottles with the other. It operates much like a traditional bartender. The standard RoboBar E model includes the following components:n High-speed, dual-arm robot equipped with two grippersn Tiered racks for holding 10 different liquor brands » Continue Reading

The DataTiles system integrates the benefits of two major interaction paradigms: graphical and physical user interfaces. Tagged transparent tiles are used as modular construction units. These tiles are augmented by dynamic graphical information when they are placed on a sensor-enhanced flat panel display. They can be used independently or can be combined into more complex configurations, similar to the way language can express complex concepts through a sequence of simple words. » Continue Reading

The wearable PC that revolutionize the way we use computers Wearable technologies represent the latest evolution in computing, and Eurotech Group has made such devices more flexible and pervasive than ever before to address users’ needs and improve their quality of life. Wearable PCs are chiefly characterized by their ability to integrate into users’ personal space and provide immediate computing and multimedia capabilities without monopolizing the users’ attention. » Continue Reading

DNP has developed Multi-Primary color filters (adding Yellow, Cyan to RGB) which enables to enlarge color gamut, mass production for the high quality displaymarket will start in this autumn .Dainippon Printing corporation has developed Multi Primary Color filter » Continue Reading

Visual Memory in a Bracelet. Just like our memories come alive when we take our favorite objects in our hands, visual memories and their tools should be more closely related. The performance of visual memory devices, such as resolution and memory, will eventually reach their usability saturation points. However, just like wearing wristwatches, they will be worn like accessories rather than highly functional tools. Looking into the landscape through an opening, » Continue Reading

Tobii Technology is a world leader in hardware and software solutions for eye tracking. Eye tracking enables a computer to tell exactly where a person is looking. Using radical innovations in technology, Tobii’s mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use in applications such as eye control interfaces to computers, design testing and medical diagnostics. We work with our own Tobii products, partner hardware and software products, and provide Tobii OEM eye tracking components to industry partners. » Continue Reading

Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP) has added an in-built speaker to its “Crystal Illusion Screen” line up of transparent projection screens and will commence marketing the expanded lineup from October. “Crystal Illusion Screen” is a transparent projection screen that is coated with special liquid crystal materials on the surface of the film. As the system efficiently reflects light only from projector images, it is possible to clearly display those images even in bright settings. » Continue Reading

Plastic Logic is developing and exploiting world-class technology for manufacturing printed plastic electronic circuits. These circuits are constructed using solution processing and direct-write techniques and consist of transistors and other components that are produced from polymers and a variety of other materials. » Continue Reading