11 August 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Touchable Holography

Do you ever get the feeling that technology is running so quickly away from you that it’s impossible to catch up? I get that feeling almost daily, mostly due to my inability to understand even the most simple technological premise. Today, I read with goggle-eyed amazement that some boffins at the University of Tokyo, led by Hiroyuki Shinoda, have developed touchable holograms.

Using acoustic radiation pressure, the hologram projector creates a pressure sensation on the user’s hands which are then tracked by two Nintendo Wiimotes. Here’s some blurb from their website that explains things far better than I could:

“A retroreflective marker is attached on the tip of user’s middle finger, IR LEDs illuminate the marker and two Wiimotes sense the 3D position of the finger. Owing to this hand-tracking system, the users can handle the floating virtual image with their hands.”

Here it is in action:

Pretty cool stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree. Prior to further developments with the technology, it’s difficult to say what touchable holography might offer in the future, apart from perhaps making fictional hologramatic ideas that have been explored in TV shows such as Star Trek and Red Dwarf a reality. Who knows, in a few years, this technology could lead to the ability to create Weird Science-esque cyber babes. Many pimply faced teenagers will surely have their fingers crossed.

3 Responses to “Touchable Holography”

  1. Finca Lerida Boquete 16 July 2011 at 12:57 am Permalink

    And they are saying the made the rule before the game if it hits a camera it is a home run, but Charlie is saying he didnt know anything about it. Total cheating. At 1:25 the umps are still on the field just going in to look at the replay, at 1:45 they are already out and signaling home run. That is cheating right there. 20 seconds? Watch the replay on mlb.com and tell me how ridiculous it looks with the umps going in at 1:25 and already out at 1:45. Game doesnt count.

  2. Lettie Kaczmarek 30 July 2011 at 8:56 am Permalink

    But to tell me that I am a conspiracy nut because I can’t PROVE that the Native Americans were there first (even though I am quoting the many others who said they were) would make you seem a bit off Remember neither one of us were there (so the type of “evidence” that you must be looking for can not be produced). So if you can’t bring a counter source to the table to invalidate my source or explain why my source is tainted, then my point stands.

  3. Serita Villarreal 18 August 2011 at 8:56 am Permalink

    To Dhimminology Part 3That reason Hadith arent 100% authentic similarly Torah and Bible are 100% authentic because Mosses or Jesus never created hafez. Lot of verse in Torah and Bible are deleted or modified because there are no hafez of these divines. In Torah there was direct instruction to kill apostate verse was like that If some one says from today we will pray for another God then kill him, Kill him by throwing stone Now this verse had deleted from Torah. In original Torah there was no such verse but it was added in Torah and deleted again. This thing cant possible in Quran because of Hafez during last centuries


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