This is a demo of AirStrike, which is a new interactive pointing device by LM3LABS. It lets users use their finger in the air to interact with holograms. AirStrike is not a concept btw, but version 1 is actually available to buy for out-of-home installations. According to Nicholas Loeillot “We reserve it to exclusive projects but are working with industrials for embedding into keyboards and laptops.”
San Francisco based entrepreneur and blogger Loic Le Meur wrote an interesting post on his personal blog about social media and the decentralized way in which personal information was being spread.
LEDUBEs are LED cubes that can be stacked on each other to create any shape that you like, a high tech Lego of some sort. Each cube can create up to 2.1 million colors and displays amazing moving graphics and video. All of the content is created on a PC with software, and then loaded into the system with an SD card. These are not available on sale yet, and there’s no expected release dates.
The Commissariat à l’énergie atomique supercomputer is currently ranked No.7 on the top 500 list of fastest computer in the world. It was built by Bull SA for France’s Atomic Energy Commision.
Many of the spinal injuries that can leave people permanently paralyzed are incurable. Researchers from North-western University in the US are trying to change situation. With a new piece of nanotechnology that may enable us in the near future to completely heal spinal cords that have been cut or severed. This would then allow paralyzed people the opportunity to walk again.
Dr. Ray LaPierre of the Department of Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario showed Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets this amazing picture of the McMaster school logo Ion-etched onto a human hair. The picture hasn’t been published online before until Joel put it on Boing Boing Gadgets.
The last time i was at the dentist was about a month ago, and it wasn’t fun at all. My fear of dentists is legendary, I’m so fearful of these masochists, that I’d rather get punched full on in the face than having to sit on a dentist’s chair for 5 minutes.
If you think that your Toyota costs a lot to run? Think yourself lucky that you do not own a giant cargo ship, which can cost over $10,000 a day in fuel alone. It takes an incredible amount of fuel oil for an ocean crossing by one of these floating warehouses.
Do you remember when newspapers and magazines used to be full of stories about something called the Information Superhighway? Fifteen years ago, it was the big buzz phrase in the US. However, all that promise seems to have evaporated for the American people. With the United States, dropping down into the 16th position worldwide for broadband availability and deployment.
Scientists from 10 different European universities are collaborating in a $9 million USD European funded Symbrion project to create swarms of hundreds of autonomous, Transformer-style robots.
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