[From The Wrap] Hollywood to the FAA: Let Us Use Drones! (Exclusive) Published: February 05, 2013 By Ira Teinowitz Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s … If the Motion Picture Association of America has its way, it soon could be a camera-equipped pilotless drone shooting the overhead chase scenes for Hollywood’s action thrillers. The MPAA is pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the use of what have been called “drones” — but in the movie business are far more likely the size of model planes and model helicopters than anything like what the…

[From TechCrunch, where the story includes a 5:33 minute video] Squeeze Virtual Reality With The Upverter + YC Hardware Hackathon-Winning Cyborg Glove [Video] Josh Constine Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That’s the promise of the Tactilous glove, which won this weekend’s Upverter + Y Combinator Hardware Hackathon. Watch as we demo the Frankenstein-meets-Nintendo contraption that lets you touch objects in virtual reality.…

[From The Daily Mail; see the video interview at CNN International; a related interview excerpt from 2012 follows] Sensors that can understand your facial expressions and ‘virtual reality’ screens: Google’s Android boss reveals the phone of the future Matias Duarte said making world more ‘tangible’ is next step Team also working on Google’s Glass wearable computer Computers must work ‘as people expect not the other way round’ By Steve Robson Published: 25 February 2013 | Updated: 26 February 2013 The mobile phones of the future will recognise our faces and hands and create a world that is like virtual reality.…