TrendBird: Have you ever walked into a lamppost, or tripped over a small wall, because you’ve been so engrossed in a book you simply can’t put it down? Well it’s time to stop hurting yourself — introducing MegaReader 2.1 and its new ‘heads up display.’ Using any Apple device equipped with a camera and running iOS4, MegaReader now gives you […]
Heads-Up Ebook Display
Meal Planning Tips
Trends Updates: A new kiosk selling food created by Kraft answered the final question of who goes to the supermarket to buy dinner, “What do I want to eat?” Called “Meal Planning Solution”, the machine uses a facial scanner to see what you want to eat and make suggestions for recipes and products for purchase. It is one of the […]
Mobile Facial Recognition Technology
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how they are feeling. The method is believed to be unrivalled for speed and accuracy and could lead to facial recognition replacing passwords […]
LED Skin
Inhabitat: While it may seem like tattoos are the norm now, no one has ink like this. A team from the University of Illinois led by John Rogers has devised a method to actually install LED lights under the skin. The research, published today in Nature Materials, saw the team develop flexible arrays 2.5 ?m thick and 100 x 100 […]
Flavour-changing Cookie
New Scientist: Imagine you could dip your hand in the cookie jar and be guaranteed to pull out whatever flavour you feel like. For cookie-lovers visiting the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles, this dream was turned into reality. We are all used to seeing, hearing and, increasingly, touching computer displays, but there has been little research […]
Bike Share that’s As Mobile As You
One of the more successful bike sharing services was launched in Paris in 2007 by the company Vélib’. Now a similar service is coming to New York City with a mobile technology twist. SoBi allows users to interact with the service through their mobile phones. One can find nearby bicycles tracked by GPS, then unlock those available bikes using a […]
Quantum Fridge
Softpedia: A team of particle physicists announces the creation of a refrigerator, in a quantum system made up of three individual qubits, or quantum bits. These are the basic components of such a system, and they all respect the entanglement principle. This basically states that any change affecting one of the qubits will affect the other two immediately. The researchers who […]
Augmented Reality Tourism
TrendCentral: Built on the Layar platform, the UAR (Urban Augmented Reality) app was developed by the Netherlands Architecture Institute with the ambitious goal of making the Netherlands the first country to have its landmark architectural sites explorable on a smart phone for those who want to embark on a self-guided tour. Beginning with Rotterdam, where users can see a 3D […]
New Kodak Picture Kiosks
Chip Chick: Kodak is a company looking towards the future of picture sharing. Introducing a new line of products that focuses on accessing and sharing photos through social networks and e-mail, Kodak products are moving away from the old way of sharing pictures and videos and into a new realm. The new booths feature improved sharing features and easier, better […]
Light Touch Interactive Projector
Light Touch is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology. Light Touch has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality […]