With the current burgeoning interest in everything 3D – Films, TV, Ar, Immersive VR etc. how about this application for sketching in 3D?
Put on your red-blue 3D glasses and go to the website provided at Neave.com and try it out for yourself.
Noticed a couple of recent articles which add fire to the usual Apple rumour mill about the imminent release of an Apple Tablet.
These have been sparked by Yair Reiner an analyst with Oppenheimer who indicated
…the manufacturing cogs for the production of a tablet are creaking into action and should begin to hit a mass market stride in February. Reiner said Apple would likely need at least five or six weeks of inventory built up before it can release the product, positioning a likely launch in March or April.
He also said that Apple has been reaching out to book publishers with a “very attractive proposal” for offering content on a forthcoming ebook platform.
So currently, the strongest rumour is for a 10.1 inch display using similar technology used for the iPhone and aimed as a Kindle e-book basher. Maybe we should just call it an iPod Touch with a 10.1 inch display.
But if the device were also to use a hybrid touch/stylus interface, what opportunities would then become available…
“Ink” made of carbon nanotubes, silver nanowires and paper are the ingredients necessary to create a battery according to research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his team at Stanford University .
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/december7/nanotubes-ink-paper-120709.html
Yi Cui had previously created nanomaterial energy storage devices using plastics. His new research shows that a paper battery is more durable because the ink adheres more strongly to paper (answering the question, “Paper or plastic?”). What’s more, you can crumple or fold the paper battery, or even soak it in acidic or basic solutions, and the performance does not degrade. “We just haven’t tested what happens when you burn it,” he said.
They have also experimented with using other materials such as textiles.
I thought paper batteries had been around for some time, here’s an article on the BBC new site from Aug 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6945732.stm#graphic
Perhaps, in the future, batteries could be created with 2D or 3D printers, and if you could also also print electrical circuitry the possibilites become endless.
So that’s the technology, how would you use it ?
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