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seiko epson creates hi-res e-ink display

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Seiko Epson Hi-res E-ink Display

This new electronic paper display from Seiko Epson crams an astounding 1600 x 1200 resolution into a 6.7-inch diagonal screen. That’s nearly 2-million pixels in a device that’s about the size of a letter-sized sheet of paper folded in half…

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posted: November 15th, 2007 5 comments author: technabob

toshiba matsushita develops round lcd screens

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Toshiba Matsushita Circular LCD Screen

This new display technology from Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. has created a full-color LCD that’s truly unique. It’s round.

The panels are designed for use in vehicular instrument panels…

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posted: October 17th, 2007 1 comment author: technabob

1mm thick flexible plasma display in the works

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Shinoda Thin Plasma Prototype

At this week’s CEATEC show in Japan, Shinoda Plasma Corp. showed off a prototype of a new plasma-based screen that’s only 1-millimeter thick.

By using an array of plasma “tubes” aligned between film electrodes, they’re not only able to keep the display super slim, but the display can actually be bent…

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posted: October 4th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

hp mscape: augmented reality gaming handheld

filed under: future tech | video games

HP Mscape Portable Concept

HP today revealed a prototype for a new handheld video game system which would take cues from your real-world environment and embed them into the game play.

The Mscape concept allows you to use the portable gaming device as a “lens” to the world around you, superimposing interactive elements into the scene in real time…

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posted: September 27th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

giant bug eye satellite camera could capture an entire city

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Satellite Lens Array

Satellite imagery has become part of our everyday lives through applications like Google Maps. However, the current technology involves capturing tons of high-resolution images and stitching them together to form one larger image…

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posted: September 27th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

is that an atomic clock in your pocket?

filed under: future tech | timepieces

Symmetricom Miniature Atomic Clock

Recent breakthroughs in physics and component miniaturization have enabled the creation of an atomic clock that measures just 2″ x 2″ x 0.7″.
Symmetricom’s SA.3Xm miniature rubidium atomic clock module is about 1/5th the size of the smallest atomic clocks which are currently available…

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posted: September 20th, 2007 1 comment author: technabob

microsoft working on massively multiplayer fps tech

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Microsoft DonnyBrook MMO FPS

The gaming world is full of MMORPGs, games that feature interaction of hundreds or thousands of players. However, these games usually don’t put them all in the same place at the same time, and don’t have hundreds battling each other at the same time…

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posted: September 7th, 2007 post a comment author: technabob

holographic display shows 360-degree digital images

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Interactive 360ยบ Light Field Display

At the recent SIGGRAPH 2007 conference, a team of engineers from USC showed off a display system that’s capable of projecting interactive 360-degree viewable images produced by a computer…

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posted: August 27th, 2007 2 comments author: technabob

life recording camera never lets you forget

filed under: digital imaging | future tech | strange and unusual

Life Recording Camera

Got 700 Terabytes of storage to spare? That’s about how much memory you’ll need if you want to use this invention to record your entire life.

Professor Yasuyuki Kono and a team of researchers from Japan’s Kwansei Gakuin University have devised a system which can record everything you ever do…

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posted: August 5th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

robot can understand several people talking at once

filed under: future tech | robotics

Robot Audition Three Speakers

Here’s a pretty impressive demonstration of a complex new speech recognition technology. The robot in this video clip is able to listen to three people speaking at the same exact moment, understand exactly what they each said, then process the data dynamically…

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posted: July 28th, 2007 1 comment author: technabob

pay for transactions with your finger tip

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Hitachi Finger Vein Reader

Hitachi has taken the wraps off of a new payment technology that lets you make purchases with only your finger.

The new biometric system can measure the unique signature of the blood vessels in your fingers to authenticate transactions…

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posted: July 24th, 2007 1 comment author: technabob

gesture controlled watch prototyped

filed under: future tech | interactive | timepieces

Gesture Watch

A group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a working prototype of a watch that can recognize gestures.

Designed by the research team of Jungsoo Kim, Jiasheng He, Kent Lyons and Thad Starner, the Gesture Watch uses an array of infrared sensors to detect hand movements in close proximity to the watch…

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posted: July 18th, 2007 2 comments author: technabob

apple files patent for multi-touch mouse

filed under: computing | future tech

Apple Multi-Touch Mouse Patent

Looks like the iPhone isn’t the only multi-touch device Apple has up its sleeve. According to a recently filed patent application, Apple has designed a mouse with a multi-touch surface covering its entire body…

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posted: July 5th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

microsoft shows multi-touch laptop concept

filed under: computing | future tech | interactive

Microsoft Multi-touch Laptop

Just a few weeks back, Microsoft introduced their Surface tabletop multi-touch computer. Now Microsoft Research is showing off a prototype of a multi-touch interface portable computer…

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posted: June 20th, 2007 post a comment author: technabob

short throw projector: 80-inch pic from 3-inches away

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Sanyo LP-XL50 Projector

Sanyo’s breakthrough short throw projector design may well revolutionize the front projector market. By radically altering traditional projection optics, they’ve been able to design a projector capable of filling a wall from as little as 3-inches away…

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posted: June 13th, 2007 4 comments author: technabob

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