Floating "Free-Space" Displays Mark New Era for the Human-Machine Interaction

22 August 2005

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Floating "Free-Space" Displays Mark New Era for the Human-Machine Interaction

Mixed Reality merges the computer world with the human world, usually through geeky concepts that transform people into cyborgs, with VR glasses and cyber-gloves. But that may be set to change, according to VNUnet.com, as a California-based firm today unveiled a futuristic projector that projects video onto thin air.

The Heliodisplay Interactive Free-Space Display, developed by IO2 Technology, is designed to display any video source …
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Active Touching Will Replace Passive Watching for Way New Media

12 August 2005

Jay Oatway

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Active Touching Will Replace Passive Watching for Way New Media

"Look. But don’t touch!" That’s what we tell our children. But recent developments at the HMC MediaLab, where they’ve designed something called "hyperfabric" after working with large scale touchscreens and touchtables, portend that we all might really get a lot more out of our entertainment, if we connected more physically: [via Future Feeder]

Hyperfabric is a new interface that lets you reach beyond the screen. It’s a very "touchable" …
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Dressing for Success in the Participatory Panopticon

09 August 2005

Jay Oatway

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Dressing for Success in the Participatory Panopticon

As the cameraphone becomes ubiquitous, we can each potentially become an “I,Reporter“. If one day you happen to be in the right place at the right time to witness something truly rare and unusual, something that affects the lives of many people, well you’ll probably want to take a picture to share with the world.

This is the participatory panopticon future.

World Changer, Jamais Cascio has an excellent speech on the …

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Expensive Girlfriend or Paid Escort? The New Realities of Digital Dating Will Still Require Romance

01 August 2005

Jay Oatway

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Expensive Girlfriend or Paid Escort? The New Realities of Digital Dating Will Still Require Romance

If you’re lonely and looking for love, the cost of dating is a small price for the chance to meet your soul mate. But what if the girl (or guy) you’re dating isn’t real. As strange as it sounds the virtual dates are more and more like the real ones, according to V-Girl, Mobile Strategy Game:

V-Girl lets you download an artificial girlfriend and woo her on a 3G mobile handset. …
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The Popular Future

The Year of The Spaceship

Virgin Galactic has unveiled their new space tourism vehicle: SpaceShipTwo. But this is more than an extravagant joy ride for wealthy space monkeys. According the Sir Richard Branson, it’s the ticket to humanity’s survival. [via PSFK]
“Our population is …

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Giant 3D Laser TV Will Make Your New HDTV Obsolete

Are you feeling mighty chuffed about the new HDTV you got for Xmas? Sorry, but it’s already well on its way to the junk pile of obsolete technology — if the hype from this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is to be …

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Your Cyborg Destiny Awaits

The guys over at Popular Science have taken an exoskeleton for a test drive:
While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a …

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Earth Day 2008: Five Easy Steps To Save The World

In celebration of Earth Day 2008 (W00t! We survived another year!), here is the Portension guide for green living this year:
Step 1) Do Whatever Al Gore Tells You…

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