Your Doctor Does Not Give a Crap About Your Fitness Tracker Data. A Robotic Worm Is Your Only Device In This Incredibly Strange Vision of the Future. This Touchable Midair 3D Laser Display Is Pretty Magical - Singularity HUB. If you’re a science fiction fan—you are well familiar with holographic displays floating in midair. Maybe it’s Princess Leia materializing above R2-D2 or Tony Stark designing his Iron Man suit with a few cinematic flicks of the wrist. In the real world, such technology has been difficult to perfect—but not for lack of trying.
Probably the closest we'll get to these sci-fi visions in the near future are augmented reality systems like Microsoft’s Hololens or Magic Leap. But much of today's technology requires you look through something (like a pair of goggles) to see those 3D images. What if we could just project them in midair? There is, in fact, a technique that’s been in development for awhile to do just that. The problem? In a new paper, however, researchers say they’ve created a laser-induced plasma display that is safe to touch. Image Credit: Yoichi Ochiai / University of Tsukuba. Pulse laser projects 3D image into mid-air - Fut-Science. The current available 3D holographic displays are based on having a “screen”, surface or substance (such as dust or water vapor) to intersect and interfere with the laser beam. Taking this fact into consideration, the Japanese company Aerial Burton has improved the holographic technology.
They created a holographic display that operates without any screen, surface or substance. It projects a 3D image into mid-air, achieved by using a pulse laser that ionizes air molecules, creating a 3D image. As you can see in the video, the laser is able to display 3D images in real time shooting 1kHz infrared pulse laser into a 3D scanner which reflects and focuses the pulses of the laser to specific points in the air. According to Aerial Burton, this display can be used to help people in emergency situations, for example, power outage, earthquake or flood.
Translation. Inovative UI. Tactile. Brain Stimulation/Real time reading. VR. Waldos. Everything's a button. Hand gesture recognition. Design. Subvocal Speech Demo. The Coming Age Of Cyborg Animals. Dubai police will use facial recognition and Google Glass to look for wanted criminals. Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images The FBI is ramping up its facial recognition database and doctors are trying out Google Glass in emergency rooms. Now the Dubai police want to take it all to the streets.
Reuters reports that the city is going to start equipping officers with Glass so they can use facial recognition to look for wanted criminals. A Dubai police spokesperson told the 7 Days newspaper that custom-made software will allow the officers’ Glass to sync with a database of faces. That way if police officers encounter wanted crooks, their eyewear can alert them. The Dubai police department will do a pilot phase where officers wear Glass to track traffic violations and look for offending vehicles. If that goes well, Glass will be distributed to detectives for the facial recognition program.
Each Glass costs $1,500, a price point that Reuters points out is in line with Dubai police’s $400,000 Lamborghinis. MIT Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video. Clever bus stop ad makes people believe meteors are striking the street. Google Wants to Ditch the Password – Sounds Lovely. Memorizing numerous passwords is inconvenient. This is known. To counteract said inconvenience, many people use memorable (read: hackable) passwords on multiple sites. Which is a shame because security experts advise that, at a minimum, we use different, random, alpha-numeric strings for every website and switch them out every few months.
Kind of the opposite of convenient. And even this method provides but a fig leaf of security. Google knows all this. So, in a soon-to-released paper they’ll outline their preferred solution—a USB stick called Yubikey. Yubikey USB stick. Trash talking passwords isn’t in any sense new, and Google’s been at it for a few years. And would it surprise you to learn registration jumped after Wired’s Matt Honan was hacked in 2012? Two-step verification and password generating key fobs may make accounts more secure than they are currently—but you can still lose your phone or Yubikey. But just about anything is better than a password. David Birch: Identity without a name. Google Street View maps the Great Barrier Reef. Video games help the blind navigate new environments. Free 123D Catch App Makes Your iPhone a 3D Scanner. 3D scan (using your iPhone camera!) And model for free with 123D Catch. Then send it on to the printer. In three years 3D scanners have gone from $30,000 to $3,000 to—$0.00?!
AutoDesk’s free 123D Catch app is now available for the iPhone and iPad. Users can take up to 40 pictures, upload them to the cloud, and receive a digital 3D model. Simply, 123D Catch is a free handheld 3D scanner as mobile as you are. If you’re an architect or manufacturer or computer animator, chances are you already know Autodesk.
Autodesk hopes to change all that with its user-friendly, free suite of 3D modeling software. How does it work? Autodesk’s proprietary software will find common points between photos, extrapolate the angle each photo was taken from, and stitch them into a 3D model. Pretty darn simple. You can leave it at that or go further. 123D Catch models made from the iPad or iPhone are compatible with Autodesk’s 123D Catch web app. Similarly, there are other handheld and desktop scanners. Subvocal Speech Demo. Mind-Controlled Videogames Become Reality.