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  So the Google’s Project Glass from the other day is not just a concept. Google’s already testing some prototypes and co-founder Sergey Brin has been snapped wearing it at a charity function. According to Robert Scoble, the glasses seemed “very light looking” and had a bluish light flashing off that supposedly gave out some [...]

  Google is looking to give augmented reality a big boost with the Project Glass project they just revealed. It involves user wearing a display that will allow them to do a multitude of things like setting up appointments, receive a video call, get directions, check out the reviews of a particular place and a [...]

  Kinect-powered hacks are not new but this Kinect hack developed by a team of Indian engineers is pretty unique and helpful to the visually impaired. Dubbed as viSparsh, it’s a haptic belt that detects obstacles and vibrates so as to signify oncoming obstacles to the visually impaired. Basically, the Kinect sensor attached to the [...]

  Transparent display market is estimated to grow big in the next few years and to cash in on the upcoming technology, Samsung has announced to mass produce its second and a larger transparent display from this month. The new 46-inch transparent displays will complement Samsung’s existing 22-inchers which can be used for various purposes [...]

  Samsung at the Q3 2011 earnings call today spilled some important details regarding flexible displays. Samsung executive confirmed that they’re planning to roll out the first-generation flexible display in 2012, possibly in the first half. More importantly, Samsung also divulged the device that will sport such display, which will be a mobile phone. Tablets [...]

  Shopping carts are generally used to lug around all the shopped goods but with the new Smart Cart from SK Telecom, the age-old cart will be able to do a lot more. Undergoing as a pilot test in China’s Shanghai Lotus Supermarket Chain Store, the Smart Cart works with the help of a smartphone [...]

  Global System for Mobile communications or fondly called as GSM has completed two decades of its service today. The GSM standard first came into existence in 1991 where the very first call was made between Finland’s former prime minister, Harri Holkeri, and the mayor of Tampere, Kaarina Suonio over a network jointly developed by [...]

  Sony today announced that they’ve developed an integrated Augmented Reality technology dubbed as Smart AR. Although we already have some AR solutions, Sony prides its tech by combining object recognition technology and own 3D space recognition technology, which was used in Sony robots like AIBO and QRIO. Smart AR allows objects to be recognized [...]

  LG’s display making subsidiary, LG Display has announced that they’ll showcase their full range of Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (AH-IPS) products at the SID 2011 expo that begins on May 15. LG is trying to play coy by not mentioning the exact resolution but has confirmed to show the panels for different sizes [...]

  Toshiba’s Mobile Display arm has created a new 7-inch low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) TFT LCD display that enables multi-touch input without the need to install an additional touch panel. The screen is developed for vehicle-mounted and industrial devices and integrates touch panel function by forming display pixel electrodes, thus reducing thickness by 57 percent and [...]

  Transparent displays will soon become a reality as Samsung has started mass producing 22-inch transparent panels. The panels will be produced in black-and-white as well as color that boasts a transparency rate of over 20 percent and 5 percent respectively. Transparent panels are also said to be energy efficient, thanks to the use of [...]

  Samsung has started mass producing its 30nm-class process based low power DDR2 RAM. It is industry’s first 4Gb LPDDR2 to be mass produced and is said to be a perfect fit for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices that boasts a superior data transmission speed of 1,066Mbps as compared to MDDR’s 333-400Mbps. Higher [...]

  Tegra 2-powered devices may rule this year’s Mobile World Congress but the day isn’t far enough where this dual-core baby will be obsolete. At the MWC, Nvidia showcased its next-generation Tegra platform which is dubbed as Project Kal-El. The chip will be the world’s first quad-core mobile processor and was demonstrated in an Android [...]

  Well, Google has attempted a similar thing to promote its Nexus S device but scientists from Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) will do a more serious experiment that will send an Android phone into the orbit few hundred kilometers above the planet. The first objective for the device will be to withstand extreme temperatures [...]

  The Galaxy Tab successor could very well have one of the most wanted feature which is absent in the current iteration – a Super AMOLED Display. At the FPD International expo that begins from next week in Japan, Samsung’s subsidiary, Samsung Mobile Display will showcase a number of display technologies, including a 7-inch Super [...]