News tagged with video screens

Introducing the Light Touch interactive projector (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK-based company Light Blue Optics has introduced an extremely compact projector that converts any flat surface into an interactive touch video screen.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 4

Sony develops roll-up OLED video screen (w/ Video)

Japanese electronics giant Sony said Wednesday it had developed what it called "the world's first" prototype flexible colour video screen that is small enough to be rolled around a pencil.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

HoloTV Images Jump off the Screen, into Tomorrow's Homes (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike today’s biggest and most realistic LCD and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in mid-air beyond the screen. That means, for instance, that viewers could ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 10 feature

Joysticks transform US warfare in Afghanistan

In battle they take out Taliban fighters with joystick-controlled weapons, while back at base American soldiers hook up their Xboxes and kill their way through video games.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9

Japan scientist makes 'Avatar' robot

A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" one step closer to reality.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 15

Transparent electronics from graphene-based electrodes (w/ Video)

Flexible, transparent electronics are closer to reality with the creation of graphene-based electrodes at Rice University.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sony to release a professional grade OLED screen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is set to begin selling a professional-grade monitor that will contain the largest number of commercial organic light-emitting diodes in a single screen produced to date. The monitor, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Take two robots and call me in the morning

In the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage," medical personnel board a submarine that shrinks to microscopic size and enters the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat to save his life.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

TV outside the box: Using cell phones, new system would let TV programs spill off the screen (w/ Video)

Augmented reality is an emerging discipline that uses handheld devices to superimpose digital data on the real world: If, say, you're in Paris and point your phone at the Eiffel Tower, the tower's image would ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds TV viewing, video game play contribute to kids' attention problems

Parents looking to get their kid's attention - or keeping them focused at home and in the classroom - should try to limit their television viewing and video game play. That's because a new study led by three ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

YouTube to support 1080p high-definition videos

(AP) -- YouTube says starting next week it will support the same high-resolution video that can now be seen on flat screen TVs.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

San Jose police mount cameras on officers' heads

(AP) -- Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Samsung unveils iPad competitor Galaxy Tab

Samsung unveiled on Thursday what the South Korean electronics giant hopes will be a major rival to Apple's highly successful iPad tablet PC.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Apple iPhone to Receive Some Upgrades

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Apple iPhone is one of the most versatile smart phones around today and it's about to get better. The news of what the next generation iPhone will be like is traveling fast.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6 weblog