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Beyond – Direct 3D Manipulation

August 3rd, 2010 Mick No comments

Beyond is a research project by Jinha Lee (and Hiroshi Ishii) from the MIT Media Lab.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/person.php?recid=81

The full title of the project is Beyond  - A collapsible Input device for Direct 3D Manipulation beyond the Screen.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project.php?recid=139

It explores a technique for drawing in 3D on a 2D surface using an input device which collapses onto itself,  giving the impression of being pushed into the screen – watch the enclosed video to get a better idea of what’s happening.

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It will be interesting to see whether this technique will be of any use in 3D CAD software. Towards the end of the video ( 1:41 ) is a demonstration of how to create simple extruded shapes.

3D Sketching

December 14th, 2009 Mick Comments off

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.

http://www.neave.com/anaglyph/

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Morph

June 8th, 2009 Mick Comments off

Morph is a concept that explores how nanotechnology might be used in the future for next generation mobile devices – utilising features such as flexible materials, transparent electronics, self-cleaning surfaces and more.

morph-wrist High resolution image (JPEG file, zipped, 1.5 MB)

The concept has been developed by the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in partnership with the Nanoscience Center at the University of Cambridge, and demonstrates how a future mobile device can be transformed into completely different shapes.

morph-phone High resolution image (JPEG file, zipped, 2.2 MB)

Nanotechnology enables the creation of materials that are flexible, can be stretched, made transparent and are very strong. A device made out of a material like this could be folded to fit into a pocket or opened out to present a larger working suruface area.

morph-opened High resolution image (JPEG file, zipped, 2 MB)

The material could be self-cleaning and the surface could even incoporate a covering of “nanograss” structures which would allow it to harvest solar enery and be self-powered.

Read more about this concept at

http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept

Nokia Research is at

http://research.nokia.com/

and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre can be found at

http://www.nanoscience.cam.ac.uk/


Concept Camera

April 28th, 2008 Mick 1 comment

The Gadget Show – a TV program on Channel 5 in the UK – recently collaborated with Curventa a design and development consultancy also in the UK, to create a new design concept for a compact digital camera.

Using emerging techology including a flexible OLED screen, wireless (induction) charging and DLP projector the resultant design represents a unique and practical solution.

(Check out all the details of the design from Curventa at: http://www.curventadesignworks.com/what/gadget-show/)

Currently only a concept. Will we ever see something like this available in the marketplace?

Possibly, when the cost of the individual components required reaches an acceptable (low) unit cost.

References:

http://gadgetshow.five.tv/

http://www.curventadesignworks.com/

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