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

This product is designed to exchange basic information with new people in the first meeting by shaking hands.The most essential part of a nomadic life style is frequent travel. Similarly, nowadays people are traveling more often. In fact, it became easier to move from one place to another. Increasing opportunities to travel indicates increasing opportunities of meeting new people. When people first meet and shake hands, the rings on the fingers get close enough to operate. » 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

Nokia today introduced Wibree technology as an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio technology developed by Nokia Research Center complements other local connectivity technologies, consuming only a fraction of the power compared to other such radio technologies, enabling smaller and less costly implementations and being easy to integrate with Bluetooth solutions.
Wibree is the first open technology offering connectivity between mobile devices or Personal Computers, and small, button cell battery power devices such as watches, wireless keyboards, toys and sports sensors. By extending the role mobile devices can play in consumers’ lives, this technology increases the growth potential in these market segments. » 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

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

Fujitsu unveiled a new type of “invisible” barcode, called FP (Fine Picture) code, which allows data to be embedded directly into color print photographs. FP code consists of a series of faint yellow lines — said to be invisible to the naked eye — which are overlaid on the photograph during the printing process. Once encoded, a photograph can retain its original quality while serving as an “object hyperlink” to websites that users can access via mobile phone. » 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

Physical Interaction Design” involves the design of objects for sensing (usually humans) and displaying information (to all our senses). It involves making new devices with embedded sensors, electronics, microcontrollers and communication. We believe that the best way to do Physical Interaction Design is with rapid iteration of working prototypes.
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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

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

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

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

Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. » Continue Reading