What is this world coming to when a person is assaulted because someone took offence to their medical prosthetic? That is essentially what happened when Dr. Steve Mann from Toronto, Ontario was on vacation with his family. Dr. Mann uses a form of “wearable computing” known as an Eye Glass – a prosthetic Augmediated Reality […]
Smartphone displays may now be good enough to allow ophthalmologists to diagnose patients even when they are away from their base hospital. But there does seem to be a major limitation in the research that means some conclusions offered by third parties might not be quite as they seem. There have been suggestions in response […]
Forget about augmented reality, lets see some serious real-world illusionary genius, like this incredible display by Montreal-based Moment Factory, showing Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall crumbling to the ground, only to be replaced by a colorful, fantastical version of the building. Costing millions to produce, the show involves 12 projectors, 12 servers to run them, hundreds […]
How do you outgeek the creation of a motion-control TV remote that operates like a magic wand? Why, you turn it into a Sonic Screwdriver. The BBC’s commercial arm has announced a deal with The Wand Company to produce a Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote. Ironically it was the BBC that helped the company come to […]
Those who decided not to buy into the iPad “premium” product sell and instead went for the “cheap but good” marketing of Google’s Nexus 7 might have been lamenting the fact that there was no Smart Cover alternative for their nifty new tablet. The Apple Smart Cover is a foldaway cover that is designed to […]
If you’ve had a rough day or your joints are creaking a little, you might describe yourself as feeling old. But now a special suit designed by German scientists allows you to literally have that experience. The “Age Man Suit” (also known as the Age Explorer) is a specially designed combination of boiler suit and […]
We often talk of technology “making the world smaller”, and that concept was most vividly demonstrated 50 years ago today. The launch of the original Telstar satellite on 10 July 1962 was a true communications breakthrough, allowing for television, phone, and even fax transmissions to be beamed around the world via space rather than through […]
A British music festival has become the first in the country to exclusively use RFID chips in place of paper tickets. It’s an idea that has major technical advantages, but has been slow to spread outside the US and the cost implications are still questionable. At most music festivals, attendees are issued with a paper […]
A troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2012. [Via]
Apple’s recent injunction against Samsung was a big (if potentially costly) victory, but the company has now had two patent claims thrown out in the space of a couple of weeks. A British court today rejected a claim against HTC which, as with a claim against Google that was recently laughed out of court by […]