News tagged with visual displays

Female cowbirds prefer less intense male courtship displays

In most species, females prefer the most intense courtship display males can muster, but a new study finds that female cowbirds actually prefer less intense displays. The full results are published May 2 in the open access ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Large multi-screen display system provided for Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Japan

Sharp Corporation is providing the theme park of Huis Ten Bosch Co. with a multi-screen display system.

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Software allows interactive tabletop displays on web

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of software that enables people to use large visual displays and touch screens interactively over the Internet for business and homeland security applications.

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Posters with depth effect -- 3D advertizing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soon, manufacturers will be able to advertize with 3D posters that are remarkable for their hitherto unattained spatial effect. The casual observer need not use any special glasses. Modern ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imagine this: Study suggests power of imagination is more than just a metaphor

We've heard it before: "Imagine yourself passing the exam or scoring a goal and it will happen." We may roll our eyes and think that's easier said than done, but in a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the As ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'

As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don't perceive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0