[From Korea JoongAng Daily, where the story includes additional images; more information is available here] [Image: Duplication¡± (2010) by Han Sung-pil is part of his solo show ¡°Dual Realities¡± at Arario Gallery Seoul] Exhibits designed to trick the mind “I’ve always been interested in the relationship between reality and illusion.” -Han Sung-pil April 21, 2011 By Moon So-young  Last week, there was news that the U.S. Postal Service had made a big mistake on a stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. It turned out that the stamp was not based on a photo of the real statue in New York Harbor…

[From Investor’s Business Daily] [Image: InTouchHealth’s flat-panel screens, the “heads” of its robots, let off-site professionals see and treat patients. AP] The Virtual Doctor Is In: Robots In Hospitals By Paul Korzeniowski, FOR Investor’s Business Daily Posted 03/29/2011 At Ocean Beach Hospital in Ilwaco, Wash., when arriving patients show signs of a stroke, a key member of their medical team is … a tall flat-panel screen. Actually, the screen is attached atop a 6-foot device, a robot that functions mostly as a mobile videoconferencing system. Telemedicine is moving into the telepresence-robot era, with devices that roll on wheels and are…

[From The New York Times] This Lady Liberty Is a Las Vegas Teenager By Kim Severson and Matthew Healey Published: April 14, 2011 As if further proof were needed that New York is not the center of the universe. The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas. You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original, the one off the tip of Lower Manhattan…

[From The Independent] Augmented reality projects transform Boston into a digital cyberland Monday, 18 April 2011 Areas of Boston will be transformed into interactive digital landscapes as a series of augmented reality artworks come to life during the Boston Cyberarts Festival, which begins April 22. With an open mind and smartphone in hand, people traveling from one area of the festival to another will look on as aliens invade the public space around them in an art project titled Occupation Forces. The artwork, created by Mark Skwarek, is made possible through a technology called augmented reality (AR for short).…

[From MIT’s Technology Review; a summary of past, present and future computer interfaces is available here] Business The Struggle to Spread the Minority Report Interface Economics and user expectations are bigger hurdles than the technology Friday, April 22, 2011 By Paul Boutin In the 2002 film Minority Report, Tom Cruise’s cop of the future made use of a mind-blowing computer interface—a holographic wall of images and data floating before him, which Cruise manipulated by donning special gloves and making sweeping gestures to call up, move, zoom, combine, and discard far more information than fits on any PC screen, far more quickly.…

[A press release from Novint; more detailed information, including a 7:00 minute video, is available from Nonpolynomial Labs] Novint Technologies and ForceTek Enterprises Merge ForceTek Brings Capital and Stunning New Exoskeleton Technology, Giving Motion Control a Sense of Touch (Albuquerque, NM – April 6, 2011) – Novint Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NVNT) today announced the completion of Novint’s merger with ForceTek Enterprises, LLC. Novint will be combining ForceTek’s XIO exoskeleton controller with Novint’s high fidelity 3D touch technology to create the world’s first consumer 3D touch exoskeleton device. Users will wear the XIO exoskeleton on their arm, and XIO itself will…