[From APCMag.com; a 3:12 minute video is available here] [Image: Part of the calibration test from MyEars. Shapes headphone sound to match your ears.] Dramatic surround sound improvement for gamers blows Dolby away Software that generates an audio profile of your ears and improves gaming surround sound piped to your headphones is now available for subscription. Get set for amazing sound. Bennett Ring 19 November 2010 While graphics in games show what’s immediately in front of players, it’s the soundscape that envelops and surrounds them, instilling a sense of place. Unfortunately many gamers use headphones, and this is a major…

[From just-style; a 1:18 minute video is here] [Image: Dassault’s 3D tool at online retailer Espacemax.com] 3D technology takes online shopping to new heights By: Leonie Barrie | 9 November 2010 One of the leading suppliers of PLM software is hoping its expertise in 3D virtual reality tools will provide another option for the fashion industry to stay competitive. Dassault Systèmes, perhaps best known in the apparel industry for its Enovia global product lifecycle management (PLM) system, is also ramping up applications for its 3DVIA software to offer a new interactive environment for brands, products and consumers.…

[From New Scientist’s CultureLab blog] (Image:As stories migrate from print to screen, new possibilities are transforming the art of telling a story and ourselves with it(Phil Ashley/Getty)] Storytelling 2.0: Metamorphosis of the storybook 15 November 2010 Amanda Gefter, CultureLab editor Stories have become synonymous with books so it is easy to forget that books are just one technology for storytelling. With digital technologies ubiquitous and growing more sophisticated will the book simply fade away? It’s hard to say, but storytelling is certainly undergoing a dramatic makeover, with so-called electronic literature paving the way. Over the next six pages, writers, scientists…

[From Fast Company]   Nov 15, 2010 Almost Genius: An Interface That Responds to Poking, Pushing, and Tilting Is this a taste of the way touchscreens might evolve? The video [here] might just offer a taste of what mobile interfaces will become in the near future. Tangible, designed by Georg Reil and Christoph Döring, is simply a device whose onscreen images change in response to tilting, pressure, and movement. Which sounds simple, but think about it: Touchscreens like the one on iPad might respond to tilting, but they do so in an effort to keep the image static.…

[From The Los Angeles Times Technology blog] Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku takes the stage — as a 3-D hologram November 10, 2010 Pop princess Hatsune Miku is storming the music scene. With her long cerulean pigtails and her part-schoolgirl, part-spy outfit, she’s easy on the eyes. Yes, her voice sounds like it might have gone through a little –- OK, a lot –- of studio magic. Legions of screaming fans and the requisite fan sites? She’s got ’em. And, like many of her hot young singer peers, Miku is extremely, proudly fake. Like, 3-D hologram fake.…

[From the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics; the original story includes additional images and a 3:51 minute video] [Image: Five metres above the ground, Andreas Knoblach from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics starts a virtual flight in the Robot Motion Simulator. The 10-metre-long track along which the robotic arm moves permits larger manoeuvres. The ‘pilot’ communicates with the team on the ground via radio and a camera. During the virtual flight he experiences the same forces as would affect his body during an actual flight.] Virtual flight on a robotic arm 2 November 2010 By Manuela Braun Only Andreas Knoblach’s…