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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.

This Touchable Midair 3D Laser Display Is Pretty Magical - Singularity HUB

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. 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.

Pulse laser projects 3D image into mid-air - Fut-Science

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.

Augmented Reality

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.

Dubai police will use facial recognition and Google Glass to look for wanted criminals.

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. 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.

Google Wants to Ditch the Password – Sounds Lovely

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. 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. Biometrics are an already common alternative solution used on local machines like laptops. 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!)

Free 123D Catch App Makes Your iPhone a 3D Scanner

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. 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. Subvocal Speech Demo. Mind-Controlled Videogames Become Reality.