Nissan 3E is not about driving; it’s a concept, an experiment into how people may buy or view cars in the future. Technology like this could make going to a dealership or a motor show a truly interactive event, where engagement is possible on site and on-line. More here.
Via Gizmodo These smart glasses could help bring sight to thousands of blind people, by converting visual information into images that can actually be seen by the visually impaired. When people use the word blind, they don’t always quite mean that someone can’t see anything at all; often times, people with visual impairment can perceive…
inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong…
During the digital content expo, at Miraikan museum, Fuji was exposing its bendable electro acoustic transducer aka BEAT, a cool name for a flexible speaker. It is composed of a two electrodes and a vibratile thin metal film substrate, which carries positive charges. The metal film substrate is disposed between the first electrode and the…
AquaTop Display is a projection system that uses white water as a screen surface. This system allows the user ’s limbs to freely move through, under and over the projection surface. Using the unique characteristics of fluid, AquaTop proposes new interaction methods specific to the projection medium: water. The system allows interactions such as protruding…
The Shirai lab of the Kanagawa institute was presenting, at the Digital content expo of Tokyo, this new kind of 3D screens that allows to show simultaneously two version of a same image. At the demo, two kinds of text were displayed in the same image, one in japanese the other in english, this technology…
Those two little things are earbuds and music player, but the magic is that you control it using your jaws. Sounds like a joke but you have to bite to control the volume or pass to next tracks: Split detects movements using a three-axis accelerometer. GreenWInAudio the society which develops those earbuds is looking for…
Yahoo launched an experimentation to help visually impaired kids to discover the world by haptic stimulations: now the results of a search can not only be audios, texts, images or video, these are also physical objects. A 3D printing machine, using a vocal recognition motor, helps kids to search an object and then prints the…
Scentee is a new kind of communication based on smells. It allows you to configure an aroma for all kind of notifications that you can receive on your favorite smartphone. For example you can configure a coffee aroma for your alarm clock, or a vanilla perfum when you receive a mail. 12 aromas are available…
Toshiba showed an SD card offering a Wireless LAN Access Point, called “FlashAir”. By offering this functionality, this SD card provides the advantage of allowing access to the data stored on it, without the need to remove the card or plug a cable to the device. This basic functionality does not require any special driver…
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