Corning Reveals Ultra-slim, Bendy Display Glass June 4, 2012 by Super User Corning has announced new ultra-slim flexible glass — glass, not plastic — that could lead sometime reasonably soon to things like curved LCD displays. The Corning Willow Glass was announced at the propeller-head Society for Information Display’s Display Week trade show in Boston this week.. Corning Willow Glass will help enable thin, light and cost-efficient …
Kinect Tweaked To Turn Any Surface Into Touchscreen May 28, 2012 by Super User The UK version of Wired has a piece up about a German startup that is using Kinect to turn any surface into a touchscreen – and by that I mean surfaces like walls and whiteboards. Munich-based Ubi Interactive uses the motion-tracking and depth-perception cameras in the Kinect to detect where a person is pointing, swiping and …
Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Talking Flat Lady; Has Better Idea (video) May 24, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”geGviB-XYhc” width=”600″ height=”350″] Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and his crew were equally unimpressed by the good Talking Flat Lady things being rolled out at NYC airports. He didn’t buy into the sexy time talk by the host, and suggests a better idea for a more typical New York welcome.
Talking Flat Lady Now Being Ignored By Travelers At Major NYC Airports May 23, 2012 by Super User A hat tip to the sales guys who managed to get the New York Port Authority to drop $180K on those eternally stupid Talking Flat Lady things for use at the city’s three main airports. ABC News says the devices were unveiled this week at Newark Liberty and La Guardia airports, and JFK will also have the …
Via Enters Really-Low-Cost PC Race With $49 Gadget May 22, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”2dNA3yHEl2s” width=”600″ height=”350″] Taiwanese electronics company Via, which has been around for years nipping just a bit at the heels of Intel and AMD, is releasing a new mini-PC (through a sub-brand called APC) that has a single unit cost of $49 USD and can push out 720P HD video. Reports The Verge: We’ve …
New Gesture Tech Leaps Way Beyond Kinect May 22, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”zMvbJkzhJrs” width=”600″ height=”350″] A start-up called Leap Motion has started showing technology, ready for the consumer marketplace by year’s end, that gives gesture the fine controls that really haven’t been evident with Kinect. It’s a level of control that might, repeat might, make gesture make more sense in some digital signage applications. Leap is …
Imagine Digital Displays That Were Glare-Free & Self-Cleaning April 27, 2012 by Super User The crazy-smart kids and their profs at MIT have released details and visuals of what could be the glass of the future for everything from eye-wear to public displays. Why? The glass eliminates glare, water droplets actually bounce off and dust and dirt struggle to stick. The glass developed in the lab has arrays of microscopic …
Transparent LCDs Make The Jump To Vending Machines April 26, 2012 by Super User I see Stratacache had the forehead-slapper of an idea to demo a new product at a vertical industry show instead of a general digital signage gathering – putting a vending machine version of its translucent PrimaSee product in front of 4,000 vending machine people attending this week’s National Automatic Merchandising Association show in Las Vegas. The …
Talking Flat Lady Gets a Weegie Accent April 20, 2012 by Super User Scotland’s health care system has its first talking flat lady, one of those projected virtual mannequins. Following the flick of a switch, EVA (which stands for Electronic Virtual Assistant), began her duties in the foyer of Forth Valley Royal Hospital on Monday 16th April 2012. These include relaying information on how to quit smoking, reminding …
