According to a new research, children from the United Kingdom aged 10 years and below spend almost an hour per day using tech-based products. The survey commissioned by educational entertainment company Leap Frog reveals that 63 percent of children aged 10 years and below now own a digital camera, gaming or mobile device. Six percent of those own a tablet PC such as an iPad. The survey also reveals that 70 percent of kids use their parents’ laptop or PC regularly, while 16 percent have their own computers. With electronic devices...
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Researchers from the United States have developed self-guided bullets that can be fired to a target from 2 kilometers away. Engineers at California-based Sandia National Laboratories have invented a dart-like bullet that features a laser-guided system, enabling it to make quick turns to precisely find its target. According to Sandia researchers Brian Kast and Red Jones, they fitted the bullets with built-in optical sensors that can be guided via laser targeting system. According to the Sandia website, the optical sensor sends data to the...
Ubisoft has said that the level of demand for 3D gaming is such that it predicts every home will have 3DTV installed by the year 2013. However, research has shown if this is the case then a reasonable amount of them will be largely unused as 12% of all Brits are unable to see 3DTV in all its glory. What’s more, according to a report in the Telegraph, Samsung announced a couple of months ago that its 3D TV sets (and 3D TV in general) could be harmful to those suffering from epilepsy as well as pregnant women, the elderly, and children....
Sony has said that the process of bringing 3D gaming to the PS3 is not running as smoothly as it had hoped, with assurances of full backwards compatibility with older titles not being made. Sony’s Simon Benson said that many PS3 games would be compatible with the 3D gaming experience, but that there were still franchises that Sony could not optimally convert to operate using the format. Mr Benson told Official PlayStation Magazine that Sony was fully behind the 3D gaming experience and it appreciated that updating older games could...
A Taiwanese firm has said that by 2015 the use of polarising or active shutter 3D glasses in home cinema systems will be a thing of the past as technology evolves to make them unnecessary and obsolete. The first crop of 3D TVs are all going to use the slightly wacky glasses to provide the 3D effect in the home and at the moment this is being seen as an added expense that increases the price of the already expensive 3D equipment. The Industrial Technology Research Institute is developing parallax barrier technology which will provide native...
A series of standalone digital cameras which can capture still images in 3D have been created by Sony, which is hoping to ride the wave of consumer interest surrounding upcoming 3D TV and gaming systems. The Alpha range of cameras is not heading straight for the professional market, as serious SLR lovers will probably have a hard time accepting that 3D photography is the way forward. Instead Sony has made sure these devices are compact enough to appeal to a mainstream audience. The Alpha cameras will have interchangeable lenses and on-board...
A full colour OLED display that you can bend and wrap around a pencil has been showcased by Sony, giving a glimpse into the future of display technology. The display is just 80 micrometres thick and measures 4.1 inches across the diagonal. Because it does not have any rigid internal components such as chips or backlighting it is possible to manipulate the display and make it fully flexible, which Sony demonstrates by rolling it up on a pencil in an impressive video online. Sony has even constructed a rather complicated mechanism to automatically...
A new technology has been created by a firm called Artificial Muscle that, unsurprisingly, allows touch sensitive displays to replicate human anatomy by stiffening when subjected to a touch. Artificial Muscle hopes that its silicon membrane display technology will be snapped up by a number of industries, including mobile phone makers and healthcare firms. So far touchscreen technology has been fairly unresponsive when it comes to giving the user physical feedback after each input. Haptic feedback, which sends a little vibration through...
The head of Google’s European operations has said publicly that he believes the desktop PC is going to become a thing of the past in the next few years, with mobile phones and laptops taking over in a big way. Google’s John Herlihy was addressing an audience at the Digital Landscapes conference and he said that cloud computing would remove the need for a powerful desktop PC to exist in every home, with data streaming allowing for smaller, portable devices to provide complex content from the internet. In his speech, Mr Herlihy...