If you still haven’t found a great holiday gift and your child likes to “play” with your digital camera, we might have a solution for both of your problems. LEGO’s recent partnership with Digital Blue is going to bring us gadgets as video cameras, MP3 players, walkie-talkies and other products on the market, all encased… »

When we started this website we wanted to focus on robots made to aid us in various circumstances. Assisting the elderly is certainly one of the more noble jobs they can be given, and that’s just what Robovie-II, the creation of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) has been programmed to do. For the… »

It has been announced today that LG Electronics went into partnership with Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting (SkyLife) to set standards in 3D broadcasting content, devices and technologies. LG announced Korea’s first 3D LCD TV in August 2009 and SkyLife will run a second trial of 3D broadcasting in January next year after airing earlier trial… »

Ever wanted to own a fancy facial recognition door entry access system that also keeps records of people entering or leaving your facilities? The Hanvon CVJB-G107 Face Recognition Time Attendance System and Access Door Lock from electronics wholesaler Chinavasion is a low cost solution (compared to other similar systems) and lets you program who gets… »

As we announced in our previous article we’re going to write about another digital “mirror” that offers us an opportunity to try out different patterns of the clothes you wear. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) have developed a magic mirror that takes the stress out of trying on new clothes. You… »

Augmented reality (AR) technologies, which superimpose information from computers on real fields of view in real time, began to be actually used in Japan. Furutani-sangyou Co Ltd (page available in Japanese) will test their Magical Mirror which does not use magic or even AR technologies in a precise sense. It takes an image of a… »

Most of current touch screen displays uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. The researchers at MIT’s Media Lab went a step… »

Tabletop computers based on diffuse illumination can track markers placed on the table’s surface. We demonstrate how to do the same with objects arranged in a three-dimensional structure without modifying the table. We already wrote about tabletop interfaces, as well as the interface with multiple sources of information able to operate in 3D, but this… »