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VisionCare’s Implantable Miniature Telescope approved by FDA

By Damir Beciri
One Comment12 July 2010

visioncare-implantable-miniature-telescopeVisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced visual prosthetic devices, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the company’s Implantable Miniature Telescope which is used to improve vision in patients with end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD). VisionCare’s telescope implant is integral to a new patient care program, CentraSight, for treating patients… »

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Green architecture – Alila Villas Uluwatu eco resort

By Damir Beciri
One Comment11 July 2010

alila-villas-uluwatu-1The beautiful Alila Villas Uluwatu eco resort is located on a sloping hill in Bali’s Uluwatu region on the Southern Bukit Peninsula of the Indonesian island. It is the first of its kind to achieve the highest level of certification for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) and is designed for the Green Globes GG21 standard. Designed… »

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Mouseless – an invisible computer mouse

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments10 July 2010

mouseless-1Pranav Mistry, Liyan Chang, and Pattie Maes, from the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, were interested in removing the requirement for a physical mouse, while still allowing computer users to interact with their computers in a way with which they are familiar with. They developed an “invisible mouse” and named it Mouseless…. »

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Aqualux 3D – a multi-layered display with water drops

By Damir Beciri
9 July 2010

aqualux-3d-four-layers-droplets-displayWe already wrote an article where water droplets (or fog) were used as a medium where image was projected in order to create interesting walk-through and semitransparent displays (see our article regarding FogScreen eZ). A new projection technology, developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is named AquaLux 3D and it can target light onto… »

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Consumer-grade camera used to detect cancer cells in real-time

By Damir Beciri
6 July 2010

consumer-grade-camera-used-to-detect-cancer-1By using an off-the-shelf digital camera, Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that is powerful enough to let doctors easily distinguish cancerous cells from healthy cells simply by viewing the LCD monitor on the back of the camera. The overall cost of… »

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Super battery made of super-high pressure treated materials

By Damir Beciri
6 July 2010

super-battery-created-with-super-high-pressure-treated-materials-at-wsu-1When we write about gadgets and technology, we often mention the need for breakthroughs in energy storing technology. By using super-high pressures similar to those closer to the Earth core or on a giant planet, the researchers from Washington State University have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. “If… »

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Oblong g-speak – the near future of information interaction?

By Damir Beciri
One Comment5 July 2010

oblong-g-speakIf you’re a regular tech news reader you must have stumbled upon articles where they compare some information manipulation (or human-machine interface) technology to the technology seen at the sci-fi movie Minority Report. In this article we’re going to describe the Oblong g-speak Spatial Operating Environment (SOE), technology that is most resembling to the one… »

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Share Happy ice cream vending machines recognize your smile

By Damir Beciri
One Comment3 July 2010

smile-activated-vending-machine-1SapientNitro (part of Sapient) unveiled the world’s first smile-activated vending machine. Built for Unilever, a large ice cream manufacturer, this ice cream vending machine is an attempt to use the augmented reality in order to attract the passersby and potentially reward them if they manage to grin enough for the wending machine’s facial recognition algorithm…. »