[From Gameranx] IllumiRoom Projects Images Past Your TV, Looks Stunning Microsoft’s research labs have just released a trailer for IllumiRoom, which projects images beyond your TV! You need to watch it to believe it. by Alex Co on 9th Jan, 2013 During Samsung’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote, Microsoft demonstrated one of the projects they’re working on and this one has a gaming slant to it. Microsoft’s Research lab calls it “IllumiRoom,” and it projects images outside of your TV while you’re playing games. According to the official site, IllumiRoom ” is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the…

[From Greg Kumparak’s GK blog, where the post includes additional images] My Lil’ TARDIS: It’s Bigger On The Inside. No, Really. By Greg Kumparak December 21, 2012 As I used roughly a zillion words to explain yesterday, I’ve spent the last few months tinkering with all sorts of little projects in an effort to learn to build awesome things. Most of the projects were intended to be scrapped from the get-go, meant primarily to help me wrap my head around some concept – brain fodder, if you will. With others, I was testing the water with ideas I might want…

[From iMediaEthics; a 1:02 minute video of Rep. Pelosi defending the altered photo is available on YouTube] [Image: See the original group of politicians (left) compared with the doctored version released by Pelosi’s office. In red circle, see the added politicians. (Credit: WizbangBlog, Nancy Pelosi’s Flickr, screenshots)] NPPA, White House Photographers Criticize Doctored Photo by Nancy Pelosi’s office By: Sydney Smith January 07, 2013 Nancy Pelosi’s office doctored a photograph picturing the Democratic women in Congress but argues it’s OK because it shows all of the women, even if they weren’t all there for the photo. A comparison of Pelosi’s…

[From Ars Technica] How fast does “virtual reality” have to be to look like “actual reality”? Low latency is important to an effective VR display but might not be everything. by Kyle Orland – Jan 3 2013 For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it. Generating a convincing 3D world that precisely and instantly matches the head-tracked position of a player’s gaze was well beyond the headsets that proliferated in research centers and on the market up through the ’90s. It has only been recently that products like…

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[From GeekWire; a photo gallery is available from Seattle’s KING5] Welcome aboard: A virtual takeoff and landing from the cockpit of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner December 3, 2012 by Taylor Soper Whether you’re an aviation geek or just always wanted to sit in the cockpit during a flight, Boeing’s new “DreamPass” digital experience for the 787 Dreamliner is simply freakin’ awesome. There are two portions to this neat new feature from Boeing and one in particular that is badass. On the last leg of the Dream Tour, Boeing placed a camera in the cockpit on a flight from Portland to Seattle.…

[From The Epoch Times] [Image: A six-legged robot from ArcBotics stands on a table at the Maker Faire on Sept. 29, 2012, at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York. Robots are gradually becoming more popular thanks to the DIY community. (Joshua Philipp/The Epoch Times)] What 2013 Holds for Technology Joshua Philipp Epoch Times Staff Created: December 24, 2012 Last Updated: January 1, 2013 By charting the course of technology over the last several years and predicting its continued path, it’s fair to say that we have an interesting year ahead of us. The largest shift will…

[From The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies] Christmas 2062: A glimpse of changes to expect in the next 50 years Dick Pelletier Ethical Technology Posted: Dec 18, 2012 Hot chocolate, warm clothes, and wrapped presents under a tree, ‘tis once again the season to be jolly! We are familiar enough with the holidays as they are now; but what might Christmas be like in 50 years? Of course it’s impossible to predict with 100% accuracy how life will change in the next half century, but if we track today’s exponentially-advancing technologies; and then add some creative possibilities, we can…

[From China Daily] [Image: The winning “food printer” displayed in Beijing. The design won the “most-fun” award of the sixth Sony Student Design Workshop. Provided to China Daily Food for thought in innovation competition Student creates device to capture aroma of meal on a postcard 2012-07-23 By Liu Jie (China Daily) Zhu Jingxuan, a junior in the Fashion & Art Design Institute of Donghua University, loves gourmet food and travel, which inspired her to invent a curious device she calls a food printer. It’s a combination of camera, smell extractor and printer. During a trip, when people enjoy delicious and…

[From The Daytona Beach News-Journal] [Image: Senior Software Engineer Josh Faust, seen on screen, navigates his company’s office using a Beam remote presence system as fellow engineer Stephanie Lee, at right, works on a project. The Beam is a roving computer screen — with video cameras, microphones and speakers — that stands five feet and rides on motorized wheels. Associated Press] Telepresence robots let employees ‘beam’ into work Terence Chea, Associated Press December 25, 2012 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in…

[From Nanowerk News] [Image :The sellar floor as depicted by actual endoscopy (left) and by intraoperative Simulation of Transsphenoidal Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery (STEPS; right). The internal carotid arteries are rendered in the background (red). The suction device is displayed as a silhouette. Figure 4 from “Virtual Endoscopy in Neurosurgery: A Review” by Neubauer & Wolfsberger] Virtual reality and robotics in neurosurgery – promise and challenges Dec 21st, 2012 (Nanowerk News) Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, according to a special supplement…

[From CBC News, where you can watch a 1:19 minute video version of the story and a 0:58 minute sample of the Stadium’s yule log display; for more on digital yule logs, including another video, see “Create a digital Yule log with your Apple TV” at TechWire] Giant burning TV log sends Regina fire crews scrambling CBC News Nov 29, 2012 The Regina Fire Department has stopped fuming about a burning Yule log displayed at Mosaic Stadium’s giant TV screens, now that the football club has agreed to change the video. For weeks, the cheery image of the burning log…