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A 3D-Printed Exoskeleton Concept Provides More Support For Broken Limbs. Eidos - Sensory augmentation equipment (full version) Balloons and Dyson Air Multiplier™ fans. The Guardian on Facebook. Japan to unveil world’s first 3D printing photo booth. Otome 3D compnay will open the world's first 3D printing photo booth in Japan. The world’s first 3D printing photo booth, creating life-like miniature photos, is set to be unveiled at the Eye of Gyre exhibition in Japan. A Japanese company known as Omote 3D is planning to offer the 3D photo printing service at the Eye of Gyre exhibition that will be held in Tokyo's Harajuk. According to the 3D Focus, the visitors who intend to have this 3D photo of themselves, will have to be scanned in a booth. There, the visitors will have their bodies scanned into a computer as they will be required to hold a certain pose for 15 minutes.

Then the machine will display their statuette on the 3D color printer depicting not only the features, but the basic textures of clothing and hair. Life and Incredible Adventures of Optimus Keyboards. 10 Futuristic Materials. Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1. Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond.

“Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger. Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. InShare28 Materials. Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects. The Leap: Gesture control like Kinect, but cheaper and much higher resolution.

It seems Minority Report-style computer interfaces might arrive a whole lot sooner than we expected: A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of “interaction space,” which detects your hand gestures down to an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters — about 200 times more accurate than “existing touch-free products and technologies,” such as your smartphone’s touchscreen… or Microsoft Kinect. Before you read any further, watch the video below. It’s really rather awesome — and apparently the video is footage of a real The Leap unit, rather than a computer rendering (you know a device is serious when the The is part of the product name).

You will also notice that it doesn’t only detect hand movements and gestures — you can use objects, such as a pen or chopsticks, or, assuming software support, your favorite pet. Now, having watched the video, you probably have a few questions. First of all, no, we don’t know what hardware is hidden within the The Leap.

Fast & Secure: Sleek Fingerprint-Scanning Door Handle Lock. Opening a door is usually done in a single motion – we take for granted that this is just not possible when it comes to one with a locking mechanism, whether it be low-tech like a key or high-tech like an iris scanner. Most fingerprint-reading door locks require that you depress an area, listen for a click or maybe look for a light, then grab the handle and go – not a big deal, but definitely one more step than necessary. Donguk Seo proposes a simpler model that works with a single motion – just grab, press and push or pull all in the same simple motion, while an LED on the end lets you know if there is any issue with your first try.

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