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Invisible Mercedes Minivan Needs a Higher Resolution Display
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If there’s one thing that the Internet has forced companies to do is to get a little more creative with their marketing. Instead of crappy old TV commercials, vendors are vying for our attention with publicity stunts they hope will go viral online. This recent campaign from Mercedes-Benz is one… |
March 4th, 2012
TriOviz 3D Glasses Let You Play 3D Games on 2D Displays
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I think that once there is more content on TV in 3D and the tech in 3D TVs and glasses gets cheaper we will see a bunch of folks moving to 3D sets. I think the tipping point will be when all sets are offered with passive glasses and sets… |
June 15th, 2011
Scientists Fool People Into Thinking They Have Three Arms, Doc Ock Not Impressed
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Can you imagine how life would be like if you had an extra limb? It’s hard to think about isn’t it? But apparently it’s quite easy to convince our brains that we do have a third arm. In fact all it takes is a little brush. Scientists at the Brain, Body… |
February 25th, 2011
The MacBook Mid-Air
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A clever piece of advertising spotted at an Apple Store: ObamaPacman spotted this seemingly convincing demonstration of just how light the MacBook Air is. He even caught it on video…… |
February 1st, 2011
Holocube Now Big Enough to Project a Human-Size Hologram
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The first time we saw the Holocube, the thing had a 20-inch screen that could show small “holograms” that looked really cool. The system has since been upgraded with a larger screen that can handle images that are the size of a 6-foot-tall adult. I will say the thing is… |
January 21st, 2011
British Military Wants Invisible Tanks by 2013
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Researchers at BAE systems are hard at work on a system that uses E-ink and a hoard of sensors to render tanks almost invisible to the naked eye. The system is dubbed e-camouflage and would project the landscape around the tank onto the surface of the tank to make it… |
January 15th, 2011
True Mirror Doesn’T Show a Reversed Reflection
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Mirrors are great. They let you see yourself much the same way that the rest of the world does. Unfortunately they have one major drawback: Everything is reversed. You’d think that whoever invented the things would have noticed that everything you see in a mirror is backwards. No, they took… |
November 16th, 2010
Tokyoflash Optical Illusion Concept Watch is Too Simple for a Tokyoflash Watch
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TokyoFlash is going soft on us. After all their mind-numbing watches and designs, I think they’ve finally decided to have mercy on us. That’s why their latest concept is as straightforward as it gets. Just look at the difference in the squiggly lines and you’ll see the numbers in the… |
September 26th, 2010
Aircord 3d Display Trades Glasses for Optical Illusion
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Similar to the HoloAD trapezoidal display that we saw at CES, Aircord Labs’ N-3D uses a specially-coated transparent glass pyramid to give the viewer the illusion of a 3D display. An iPad placed on top of the pyramid projects three separate images, and each image is reflected in varying intensities… |
July 27th, 2010
3d Water Tetris: What Will They Think of Next?
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Everything’s in 3D these days, so why shouldn’t Tetris get the X/Y/Z treatment too? Researchers Peter Barnum Srinivasa Narasimhan, and Takeo Kanade at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a way to project 3-dimensional images onto multiple curtains of water to form a volumetric display. The system uses layers… |
July 2nd, 2010
