Augmented 6th Sense

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo Sixth Sense

The unveiling of a new system to link a small personal projector, camera, phone, battery and mirror to augment your world anywhere anytime.  Using these cheap components and using gestures you can use any wall for a work display surface, just an amazing TED article and the way the projection technology may go in the near future. Cheap available technologies use together with stunning functionality . You just have to see this presentation to believe it!

Wall paper that glows

The future of ambient lighting might lay in glowing walls, according to Philips. The company has announced its plans to develop wallpapers containing integrated LEDs. The luminous sound-absorbing textiles would glow in variety of colors accordingly to the user's requirements. To develop the luminous wallpaper panels, Philips is collaborating with customizable acoustic panels manufacturer Kvadrat Soft Cells, based in Denmark.

"They can be rearranged and reupholstered to meet changing requirements, simply and quickly," the Kvadrat Soft Cells website says. Panels are mounted on an aluminum frame with a stretching mechanism, allowing the panel to remain an appropriate tension regardless of changes in temperature or humidity.

The Philips' LED illuminated texture wallpapers could provide designers with a variety of options to create unusual interiors, suiting the purpose (and atmosphere) of the chosen space. For example, the panels' function to change colors could be integrated into an audio system and respond accordingly to the music. Taking their sound-absorbing qualities into account, the Soft Cells panels could also dampen noises and soften echoes.  Wow ! Iwant one !!

3D Apples

Apple has been granted a patent on a way to project 3D images without the use of glasses.  Pixels will be projected on reflective and textured surfaces. The reflected pixels are then bounced into your left and right eyes. Voila, stereoscopic effect.  Their technology will rely on "inexpensive auto-stereoscopic 3D displays that allow the observer complete and unencumbered freedom of movement," which means no glasses and you don't have to sit still to enjoy. It will also be capable of sensing multiple eyes so more than one person can watch the 3D projection at once.  The patent also delves into why other 3D technology isn't good enough. It calls out the current systems being used by auto-stereoscopic phones and presumably the Nintendo 3DS.  The problem with their technology, according to the patent, is that a need still exists for the viewer to remain stationary. Apple's goal is to offer consumers affordable and practical 3D technology.  The patent was originally filed back in 2006 and has just been approved so don't expect any groundbreaking product from them anytime soon. I'm glad Apple is taking on 3D technology though. Do you think they will challenge the Nintendo 3DS and make their own 3D gaming device?

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/708960/apple-patents-new-3d-projection-technology-no-glasses-needed/