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People spend their lives dreaming about one day being able to experience the feeling of space travel. The new NASA Shuttle Launch Simulator allows people to experience the thrill of a launch without the need for all that training. The $60 million ride opened up yesterday to the public, starting with a test run by a team of 40 astronauts, ...

One thing that has always turned us off about PDA’s is the inaccurate control the touch screens actually grant you. They hand you a stylus and send you on your way, but they neglect to tell you that the touch control does more messing up than it does controlling. Some researchers for Microsoft over in Redmond are working on a ...

If you have ever considered studying human anatomy, let’s be honest, the one thing that probably differed you the most from following through was the long hours staring at boring textbooks filled with 20-letter words. You can blame it on money, but come on. The CAVEman Virtual Human from the University of Calgary brings anatomy into a 4D perspective. CAVEman ...

Ever wondered how your pet dog views the world? One Eye Ball by Hung-Chih Pen attempts to recreate the dog perspective for us bipedal mammals. The One Eye Ball concept works by mounting eyeglasses-sized LCD displays in the helmet, which are connected a a camera at the end of a tube. The camera sits around the same height as a ...

A technology that scientists didn’t expect to pop-up for a decade or so is showing its face early. SeeReal Technologies is working on developing a 3D holographic display technique which wouldn’t require any funny-looking glasses to watch. The holographic system would follow the watchers eyes and produce the holographic effect accordingly. Holographic display reconstructs a “scaled-down” natural scene. So it ...

Sources are reporting that Apple might soon be making more changes to their product line by the end of June. Supposedly, Apple is ditching their 17-inch iMac displays for the more rotund 20 and 24-inch monitors. The new displays are rumored to be Cinema Displays, which would wipe out the 17-inch iMac as the entry-level Apple computer, leaving the Mac ...

The Megatouch Elite Edge ION might looks more like a slot machine than something you’d see in an arcade, but the ION is what we might see being added to the arcade floor in the near future. Featuring a 15-inch touch screen, a joystick, some stunning 3D graphics, and a collection of 102 games (ranging from puzzles to sports and ...

The game is called Go, but you might know it better as Chinese Chess. This design concept creates a foldable Go board which rolls up like a scroll, and is played through a OLED display. The Go board uses the traditional Chinese calligraphy along with a painted open-book system of playing. Go and impress your friends (no pun intended) at ...

This new 2.2-inch active matrix OLED screen by Samsung is being touted as the thinnest OLED display ever created for commercial use. Hell, the thinnest period. At an anorexic 0.53 mm thick, a piece of paper is barely competition for this screen. Samsung plans to roll out the new screens over the next few months, providing them to mobile phone ...

The UBWall is a Fujitsu-made concept which has burrowed its way out from under the R&D walls into Japan’s busy consumer district. UBWall is an interactive touch display with integrated Wi-Fi and RFID capabilities which first appeared about two years ago, but is only recently being used in the wild. Financial-services company Nomura Securities is installing an still undecided amount ...