Articles tagged with: ‘prototype‘
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MIT’s BiDi screen enables gestural control of on-screen objects
Most of current touch screen displays uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. The researchers at MIT’s… »
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Brother Incorporated improve their Retinal Imaging Display
In our previous article where we wrote about NEC Retinal Imaging Display, we announced we’re going to write about several other examples of that technology. Brother Industries, Ltd, a company actively working on Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology, announced that they succeeded in development of a mobile prototype. RID is… »
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NEC unveils their Retinal Imaging Display named Tele Scouter
After writing about augmented reality glasses, the potential of see-through LED displays, and SixthSence, and even announcing the potential of retinal displays, we’re going to write about several Retinal Imaging Display devices meant to enhance our living in some manner. According to Japanese manufacturer NEC, foreign language dictionaries could be… »
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Driving companion AIDA – Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent
The AIDA project (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a collaboration between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab), is a platform comprising of a personal robot and an intelligent navigation system that aims to bring more pleasant driving experience…. »
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Toyota humanoid robot learns to run
In this article we’re going to write about a civilian humanoid aiding robot (unlike BigDog which is developed for army usage). Honda’s ASIMO humanoid already demonstrated its amazing walking and running capabilities. Other research labs are not so far behind developing robots just as capable. Toyota has an excellent and… »
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Dark Flash – taking photographs without annoying flashes
A camera that takes photos with an invisible flash of infrared and ultraviolet light points to a smarter way to take photos in the dark. Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University created the camera in an attempt to deal with problems which regular flashes have…. »
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Chargers standardization and new ways to charge your cell phone
Great news regarding cell phones and charging – soon there will be no more asking around the office for the right sort of charger and you’ll need to recharge less often than before. The world’s leading cell phone makers announced today that they will ensure that their data-enabled phones and… »