Researchers at Microsoft Research and the Carnegie Mellon University are developing a wearable projection system developed by, enables users to turn pads of paper, walls or even their own hands, arms and legs into graphical, interactive surfaces. Dubbed OmniTouch, the technology could be used for gestural control of the projected information and interact with it ... »
Projectors in conference rooms have to be very bright for viewers to easily see the large images even in daylight. So far, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources have been used primarily in pocket projectors, cell phones, or home cinema systems, but the folks from Osram Opto Semiconductors came up with an extremely bright, green LED ... »
Micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are becoming more popular as a basis for the next generation of optical materials. Lemoptix, a spin-off of EPFL, working together with the Maher Kayal Laboratory, completed their development of their miniature projector at the beginning of September. Its developers claim it should be on the market by the end of ... »
We already wrote an article where water droplets (or fog) were used as a medium where image was projected in order to create interesting walk-through and semitransparent displays (see our article regarding FogScreen eZ). A new projection technology, developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is named AquaLux 3D and it can target light onto ... »
In our previous article we wrote about a new material which gives the sense of touch, and here is an invention with a different twist. Since devices with increasingly larger computational power and various capabilities are becoming much smaller, they can be easily carried on our bodies. However, their small size typically leads to limited ... »
InFocus Corporation announced an enhancement to its wireless solution that eliminates the need to have wired connections between laptops and selected InFocus projectors. Successfully launched in August 2009 with initial support for Windows OS platforms, the system is now made available for MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air platforms with audio support. Based on wireless ... »
The potential utility of three-dimensional video teleconferencing has been dramatized in movies such as Forbidden Planet or the Star Wars. There were many tries to establish this technology but most failed at some point. A recent demonstration by CNN showed television viewers the full body of a remote correspondent transmitted “holographically” to the news studio, ... »
