In order to compensate for usually small display size on digital cameras and smartphones, many companies and research groups focused on development of small projectors that could be used alongside these devices to project larger images on nearby surfaces. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (Fraunhofer IOF) in Jena, developed ... »

A while ago I was out for a drink with some friends,  and among other conversation we had a debate about e-readers and tablets where we concluded that there should be a version of an e-reader with a controllable backlight. The folks from Barnes and Noble had the same idea and came up with NOOK ... »

A while back, we wrote about world’s first smile-activated ice cream vending machine which employs augmented reality in order to grab the attention. As a part of “Open Happiness” regional initiative in Singapore, Coca-Cola Company and Ogilvy & Mather came up with the ‘Cola-Cola Hug Machine’ to bring doses of happiness into the lives of ... »

In their effort to study the effectiveness of haptic technology – technology that takes provides feedback to user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations or motions – researchers from the Vanderbilt University designed an application that could assist visually impaired students to master algebra, geometry, graphing and other subjects that are particularly hard to ... »

After a long time service, my computer mouse finally decided to stop functioning. Although there were several well known mice I wanted to test before opting for one, in the end I decided to take a mid-range priced computer mouse with most of the features much more expensive mice offer. Elecom E-Force GM-20 is a ... »

Objet260 Connex is a compact and attractively priced addition to Objet’s family of multi-material 3D printers. Unlike other 3D printers we previously wrote about, the Objet260 Connex is based on the company’s patented inkjet 3D printing technology that enables mixing of 2 different materials to produce a new material with distinct properties, textures and colors. ... »

In our previous articles we wrote about quadricopters used in research regarding swarm algorithms and entertainment, but a group of people from Germany took the application of these electrically charged flying machines a step further. They created e-volo electric multicopter – a sixteen propeller flying vehicle which completed its first manned flight at the end ... »