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Vuzix augmented reality Smart Glasses prototype hands-on (video)

shaun — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:14:19 +0000

Remember those wicked holographic augmented reality glasses that DARPA was so hot to build? They’re almost here. Hiding out at Vuzix’s CES booth we found a functional prototype for its Smart Glasses industrial class monocular display — a special lens attached to a proprietary display driver that produces a bright, 1.4mm holographic picture for one of your peepers. Vuzix told us the lenses were the fruit of a DARPA project, and could allow soldiers involved in air-to-surface operations to track jets, check their ordinance and mark targets for destruction. The military / industrial monocle will go on sale in Q3 of 2012 for somewhere between 00-3000.

Want to look a little more, well, normal while you’re augmenting your reality? You’re covered — or at least you will be in 2013. Not only will Vuzix’s consumer facing smart glasses offer you the same holographic heads-up technology that’ll power its military bound brother, it’ll cost you a bundle less, too: between 0-600. The unit we saw wasn’t final, but were told the final unit will be able to accept connections over HDMI, and may even be capable of displaying stereoscopic 3D content — you know, in case the real world wasn’t real enough. Hopefully, we’ll be able to tell you those fit next year. Ready to see how you’ll be gussying up reality in the future? Hit the break for our hands-on video coverage.

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IBM’s builds memory chips one atom at a time

shaun — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:14:31 +0000

IBM's new memory storing the letters for the word THINK.

Computer and memory chips usually tend to get smaller over time, but in a paper published Thursday in Science IBM details how it’s building memory chips that would be 100 times more dense than today’s hard drives by starting with the smallest building blocks–atoms. Big Blue’s prototype chip is only 12 atoms across (click here for an awesome visualization of how small an atom is. No really, click it!) but is another way of thinking about ways to get beyond the limits of building ever smaller chips keeping Moore’s Law on track.

Andreas Heinrich, the project lead for IBMs efforts, explained in an interview that this tech may never be realized in part because it requires an entirely new type of manufacturing equipment to be built. However, IBM is learning how to manipulate atoms for storing bits and identified a new type of magnetism that could one day be used. Unlike the type of magnetism that keeps your magnets stuck to your fridge, IBM is looking at the reverse of those properties to make this highly dense type of memory.

It’s called antiferromagnetism, and the benefits of using it are not only its density, but that data wouldn’t be lost if it encountered a magnet. IBM is also playing with memory made using traditional magnets, but unfortunately at the atomic level nearby magnets tend to disrupt one another making it difficult to use them close together to store data. Applying antiferromagnetism prevents this and enables researchers to build smaller structures. Heinrich notes that the 12-atom memory chip prototype was only possible in a very low temperature environment, and to make a stable prototype in a room-temperature environment it would take a device that’s 150-atoms thick.

So clearly these aren’t ready for prime time in a hot data center anytime soon. I kid, but the real value of the research here is that there are folks out there continuing to try to advance computing not just for tomorrow but for decades down the line. When your future mobile phone packs a terabyte of storage it may be Heinrich and IBM you should thank. For more info check out IBM’s video below.

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Vuzix designs Smart Glasses to look like sunshades, tout connected transparent display

shaun — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:14:20 +0000

Vuzix has announced plans to develop a stylish head-mounted display solution in the form of Smart Glasses, through a licensing partnership with Nokia. The yet-unnamed product would integrate a bright, high-contrast display with a pair of seemingly ordinary-looking sunglasses — sounds like a perfect companion to the ZionEyez in-glasses camera prototype we saw last month. In Vuzix’s words:

This amazing new technology starts with a compact display engine capable of hi contrast and brightness for outdoor use. The output is then relayed into a 1.4 mm thick plastic waveguide lens with input and output hologram structures on the surface which squeezes the light down the waveguide and then two dimensionally expands the image back into the user’s eye, creating an image that is then mixed into the real world.

Naturally, the company envisions its Smart Glasses solution as a web-connected device, letting you watch videos or browse the internet while still being able to see-and-avoid pedestrians as you walk on the sidewalk or obstacles while behind the wheel — try doing that with a Kindle or smartphone (better yet, please don’t). Vuzix expects its Smart Glasses solution to start appearing as early as this summer, but we’ll be getting an early look next week at CES.

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Ideas You Need To Know About Speedy Prototyping

johntesh — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:35:29 +0000

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Speedy prototyping denotes that automatic era of objects by use of solid free type fabrication. The inception of the concept in Eighties noticed the production of various forms of fashions as effectively prototype parts. The fast prototyping idea has unfold across numerous domains and options in numerous applications. Fast prototyping can be generally used in the manufacturing domains the place the idea is used for production high quality elements in comparatively low figures. In arts additionally, the concepts are used as an example by sculptors to generate advanced design and shapes that are meant for positive artwork exhibitions.

Fast Prototyping relies on digital designs taken from computerized designs or laptop Aided design (CAD) closely related to the animation modeling software. The ideas of fast prototyping would then remodel the virtual designs into thin horizontal cross sections, which then lead to the creation of cross sections in physical locations. These are created in succession until a point the place the entire model is complete.

In speedy prototyping, additive fabrication facilitates the studying of data from a CAD drawing by the machine. The machine will then get right into a layering course of the place either, powder, sheet or liquid material in layered in succession. This is how a mannequin in really generated from a collection of cross part representations. The feasibility of the methodology is that the layers that are executed in correspondence with the digital cross part from the CAD mannequin are introduced together and blended routinely to generate the final shape. One outstanding features of additive expertise is its dynamism, which can be utilized to generate any form or geometric feature.

In fast prototyping the term ‘speedy’ is used relatively. The truth is that the era of the desired model with out there strategies and procedures can discuss many hours and even stretch to numerous days in tandem with the method adopted in addition to the size and the complexity of the desired model. The time period ‘rapid’ is thus utilized in a relative sense contemplating that the additive technologies can in some instance be produced desired fashions in hours but again it will rely on the kind of a machine getting used, the size of mannequin in focus as well as the number of fashions to be generated concurrently in cases of multiple model production.

Convectional injection molding is known to be more economical particularly in manufacturing polymer products in massive volumes. On the opposite end additive technology can be recognized to be speedy and price effective within the cases where there’s a manufacturing of relatively small portions of parts. The remarkable advantage of rapid prototyping is that it has enabled designers as properly theme or concept modeling groups to generate parts or components as properly concepts representations by use of handy and moveable desktop measurement printers. Printing and design technologies abound available in the market yet fast prototyping cashes in on the merits of value effectiveness and speedy print out put and premium high quality, which give designers and idea developers the actual sense, and illustration of their design models.

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Meet London’s new Eco-Routemaster, same as the old Routemaster (video)

shaun — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:14:22 +0000

The English can’t resist a good retro revival: we fell back in love with the new Mini and Doctor Who, so now it’s time to do the same with the eco-friendly revamp of the Routemaster bus. Packed with a hybrid engine that doubles the fuel efficiency of a standard diesel (at 11.6mpg — but it’s a bus, so that’s a lot) but producing only half the emissions. It’ll carry 87 passengers and the vehicle heralds the return of the rear-door, so when it’s stuck in traffic, you can safely hop-off and walk the rest of the way. A fleet of eight buses will run London’s “38″ route from early next year and you can watch the prototype being hand-built in the video we’ve got for you after the interval.

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Lumus teases 720p video glasses, takes transparency to a new level (video)

shaun — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:14:27 +0000

A new pair of glasses from Lumus won’t help you capture any precious moments, but it will help you get your discreet HBO fix. Unlike most video headgear, these marvels will let you peer past their lens-projected view screens, opening the door to an augmented reality that doesn’t rely on miniature displays. The lenses create an 87-inch virtual screen viewed from 10 feet that is only experienced by the individual wearing the headgear, onlookers will only see a pair of odd spectacles. 1080p buffs won’t be pleased to know that the this set of specs can only do 720p, but the Israeli company has said that a full-HD flavor is in the works. The bifocals won’t be hitting retail shelves anytime soon, but we’ll be sure to take them for a spin during CES next month. Hit the video after the break, which includes visuals of an earlier prototype in action.

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Senseg’s tactile display gets demoed on a tablet, products anticipated within 24 months

shaun — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:14:22 +0000

We’ve seen Senseg’s tactile display technology demoed on a few different devices in the past, but CNET has now gotten a quick look of the company’s latest tech on a tablet, along with some additional word on its future. As with previous prototypes, the screen doesn’t rely on any moving parts as some other tactile displays do, but instead employs an electrostatic field-based system that allows different parts of the screen to produce varying degrees of friction. As Senseg notes, that opens up a number of interesting possibilities for gaming, as well as other applications where you may not always want to look at the screen. Of course, that tablet is still very much a prototype, but Senseg’s Dave Rice says that he’s “optimistic” we’ll see actual products using it “within the next year,” although he notes that could extend to 24 months. See the video after the break or at the source link below.

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Canon has a new ‘EOS Movies’ DSLR on the way too: 4K video, 35mm full frame sensor

shaun — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:14:20 +0000

Canon has more on the way from its newly launched EOS Movies lineup than just the C300, as shown by this new prototype DSLR. Promised to be “ideally suited for cinematographic and other digital high-resolution production applications” this camera packs a 35mm full frame image sensor capable of shooting Motion-JPEG encoded 4K video at 24fps. The press pics show it fitted with both EF 50 and new Cine 24 (as shown above) lenses, as Canon looks to blend the success of the 5D MK II with RED-rivaling video capabilities. The director of House shot an episode on that camera already and called it the future, which appears to be arriving sooner rather than later. Check out the press release after the break.

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Compact Stress Meter provides checkups from the comfort of your cubicle (video)

shaun — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:14:28 +0000

Chances are you don’t need a machine to know that the office stresses you out, but if you’ve ever felt an urge to actually quantify the toll your boss takes on your body, the Compact Stress Meter could be your new best buddy. Developed by researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University, this system uses a pulse wave sensor and infrared reflective probe to measure the blood flowing through a user’s fingertips, which serves as a relatively accurate stress index. All you have to do is place your finger on the sensor for ten seconds, and an accompanying computer program will automatically display your stress levels in real-time by analyzing variations in blood flow. At this point, the software and sensor are still separate, though the meter’s developers have already completed a new prototype with the sensor built in to a mouse, allowing users to continuously gauge their stress while diligently working in front of their computers, or while furiously searching for a new job. Click past the break to see the meter in action for yourself.

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Android this week: Galaxy S II first look; Amazon tablet soon; more Hulu Plus devices

shaun — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:14:19 +0000

Since launching in May, Samsung’s Galaxy S II has been the company’s fastest selling smartphone, even without availability in the smartphone-crazed U.S. That situation is changing as Samsung announced a version for Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile earlier this month. Sprint’s edition is already for sale while T-Mobile hasn’t yet announced availability and AT&T is launching the Galaxy S II on Oct. 2.

I nabbed an early review unit of AT&T’s Galaxy S II yesterday afternoon and immediately gave the handset a once over with a photo gallery. My general first impression: If you like Google Android and have or want an AT&T account, this smartphone should be at the top of your list.

The 4.3-inch display is so vibrant that I tweeted this last night: “Super AMOLED Plus gives new life to old “Cheers” episodes on Netflix.” Samsung’s dual-core processor makes this phone one of the fastest Android devices I’ve ever used. And even in my rural area where mobile broadband coverage is sketchy, I saw HSPA+ download speeds nearing 5 Mbps. I’ll have a full review forthcoming, but so far, I’m very impressed.

Also forthcoming is Amazon’s tablet entry, which will be based on Google Android. Amazon is expected to launch the device in the fourth quarter and it’s likely that next week will see the tablet introduced, due to a planned press event for an unknown product. Amazon has reportedly ordered monthly production of 800,000 such tablets; if true, the company should have plenty on hand after launch, even if the Kindle tablet proves extremely popular.

Based on an early hands-on look at a prototype, it’s pretty much a given that those familiar with Android won’t see a trace of it on Amazon’s tablet. The slate will use a heavily customized user interface that may limit what the device can, and can’t, do as compared to other tablets on the market. Surely it will support Amazon media offerings such as Kindle books, Amazon’s MP3 store, and likely Amazon’s Unbox video service. One open question I have is if Amazon’s AppStore will be supported for third-party Android software; my suspicion is yes, either at launch or through a future software update.

One app that received an update this week was Hulu Plus. The video subscription client was previously supported on just a handful of Android smartphones, but the list of compatible devices was updated this week. The HTC Flyer tablet in addition to the LG’s GX2 and Revolution, plus Motorola’s Bionic, Droid X2 and Droid 3 have all been added to the support list. The software is free but requires a monthly service fee of .99 to watch television programming on your Android smartphone or tablet.

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