MNvsMCHN.01. from MACHINA on Vimeo.
“Hands-free” Smartphone Display
Call it “video eyewear”, “heads-up-display” (HUD) , “smartphone display” or many other names and acronyms - either way its a better visual user experience. Be it for jacking into the grid or just watching a vid.
Company Snapshot: Vuzix ( Vuzix Corporation (TSX-V: VZX, OTC:BB:VUZI, FMB:V7X) NY based. Video eyewear technology company that has products that address the video, virtual, and augmented reality uses..
Why: M100 Intelligent Hands-Free Display for Smartphones
“Hands Free” smartphone display and communications system for on-the-go data access from your Smartphone and the Internet. Running applications under the Android operating system; text, video, email, mapping, audio
hi-Call: Buetooth talking glove
hi-Call: Buetooth talking glove. A Bluetooth glove that allows you to talk through your hand. The left glove has a speaker and a microphone sewed into thumb and pinkie, in order to speak to the phone, while protecting from cold.
http://www.hi-fun.com/en/accessori-iphone-ipod-ipad/hi-call/
NYFW Microsoft “Printing Dress”
Abstract.
You are probably familiar with the old saying, “You are what you eat” but how about, “You are what you tweet?” What if this concept were incorporated into garments of the future? Would you censor yourself, knowing you would reveal your statements to the world around you? The “Printing Dress” is an artistic piece that explores the notion of wearable text and its potential impact on the future of fashion, as well as our social identity. Built almost entirely of paper, the dress enables the wearer to enter “thoughts” on to its fabric and wear them as public art. By selecting materials and technologies that draw on the past, present, and future of communication media, we encourage viewers to reflect on the path that has brought us to ubiquitous digital communication and to contemplate its forward evolution.
Go Deeper
Experience the DVF Spring 2013 show at New York Fashion Week all the footage you see here was filmed using only Glass.
NYT Bits interviews Steve Mann wearable computing first man-machine and the worlds first cyborg. His relentless commitment to realizing and rendering this space in his early days at MIT were inspirational. I love that they asked what happens when he wears it during air-travel.
Additional reading available over at the Interaction Design Foundation. and this great graphic looking at Mann and Brinn from Google side by side, heads up display, display.
A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo.
Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.
DISPLAY RESOLUTION INCREASE WITH MECHANICAL ACTUATION
Abstract
There are provided apparatuses and methods for increasing the pixel density of a digital display through mechanical actuation. In some embodiments, a display device is described having a processor configured to provide an image for display and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores the image and is configured to map the image to a pixel matrix. A display controller is coupled to the memory and configured to sample portions of the image and to store the portions of the image into planes. Each sampled portion comprises a different set of pixels of the pixel matrix. A display is coupled to the display controller and is configured to display the contents of the sampled planes. In particular, the display controller is configured to sequentially provide the sampled planes to the display for sequential display. At least one actuator is coupled to the display to displace the display for the displaying of the sampled planes, so that pixels of each plane are displayed in a unique location from the pixels of other planes.
