Kojiro is an advanced musculoskeletal humanoid robot under development at the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory. Kojiro’s creators designed its body to mimic the way our skeleton, muscles, and tendons work to generate motion. The goal is to build robots that are light and agile, capable of moving around and interacting with the physical… »
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… »
Getting power from your phone socket instead of the grid or a USB port for low voltage powered gadgets could start a potential new wave on the gadgets market. Is hooking up electronics to a phone jack unethical? Maybe, but the RJ11 lamp can do just that – use a phone jack to power a… »
The potential utility of three-dimensional video teleconferencing has been dramatized in movies such as Forbidden Planet or the Star Wars. There were many tries to establish this technology but most failed at some point. A recent demonstration by CNN showed television viewers the full body of a remote correspondent transmitted “holographically” to the news studio,… »
The Graphics Lab at the University of Southern California has designed an easily reproducible, low-cost 3D display system with a form factor that offers a number of advantages for displaying 3D objects in 3D. The display requires no special viewing glasses and generates simultaneous views accommodating large numbers of viewers. The same display was used… »
Many companies that produce light bulbs are slowly changing their production lines due to new laws that ban ordinary, incandescent, light bulbs. There are many alternative technologies as white-light LEDs, oLEDs (we wrote about those in one of our previous articles), plasma light bulbs, CFL’s, etc. NEC Lighting Ltd announced their release of two types… »
We received a few suggestions on our Twitter account regarding a few conceptual buildings and gadgets. In this article we’re going to make clear why we’re not writing articles related to concepts that aren’t realized at least to some degree. The LED lamp, named Gravia, has won second place in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition… »
A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single photons on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the Bristol University, who led the research, has demonstrated precise… »
