Tag: hci

Light-emitting paper

researchers developed a thin, clear nanocellulose paper made from wood flour and infused it with biocompatible quantum dots — tiny semiconducting crystals — made out of zinc and selenium. The paper glowed at room temperature and could be rolled and unrolled without cracking. The researchers are currently developing papers that emit other colors than blue.

Neural implants

Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all 5 senses (or more); augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy — sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. Sound crazy? It is… and it’s not

Cortical modems

The cortical modem project aims to build a device with a cost ~$10 which would enable a visual display via a direct interface to the visual cortex with the visual fidelity of something like an early LED digital clock

Bionic man

bionic man features 14 technologies currently being developed: a powered prosthetic leg that helps users achieve a more natural gait, a wireless brain-computer interface that lets people who are paralyzed control computer devices or robotic limbs using only their thoughts, and a micro-patch that delivers vaccines painlessly and doesn’t need refrigeration.

A tangible display

needs higher res but why not

After multitouch

it’s been nearly 8 years since the seminal jeff han multitouch demo. we have made some progress with smartphones (but far less than suggested back then), and now james patten shows how you might approach this in 2014.

Automatic 3d extrusion

Amazing ui

2500fps vision

i’d be fun to have 2500fps vision #throughglass

AR-HUD

in 2012 pioneer will introduce the AR-HUD

i wish, but this is still pretty inspiring.

Superhuman hearing

written in the annoying dumbed-down jock style wired is infamous for, but still interesting:

We evolved in a world where we needed to hear lions, but today it makes sense for our senses to talk directly to our brain. It would also give us the ability to hear outside of our normal 20-20Khz spectrum, giving us the ability to hear what bats or dolphins hear.