Disney’s plan for ‘interactive cakes’ revealed in patent application
Mmm, cake — no other confectionery can match its range, be it in the form of birthday, wedding, or bundt. But we never expected to see it integrated with a pico projector. Yet that’s exactly what the...
View ArticleKinect + projector = augmented reality fireballs (video)
We’ve seen fancy augmented reality projection before, but we’ve rarely been able to take it home — now, it seems Microsoft’s hack-friendly Kinect can bring the same trick to the consumer realm. Elliot...
View ArticleSanyo PLC-WL2503 ultra-short-throw projector does built-in interactivity a...
The Sanyo PLC-WL2503 isn’t the first whiteboard-less whiteboard solution we’ve seen — in fact multi-surface projector interaction dates back at least as far as 2007. As for a projector with built-in...
View ArticleHolocube scales up with life-sized, 70-inch, HC70 holographic projector (video)
First they were little, then they added touchability, now Holocube’s holograms in a box are going big time — in that the company’s latest model is physically much larger than the others. It’s the...
View ArticleUrRobot’s Robii hides a multitouch projector in his circus tent (video)
This cute, bearmonkey-like creature with animatronic head and arms perched atop a rotating, but otherwise fixed torso is called Robii. He’s built by Compal Communications, the ODM more often...
View ArticleNikon patents DSLR camera / projector, high-end photographers may get to join...
Nikon’s done the projector-in-a-camera thing before, but the S1100pj was aimed at the compact digital camera crowd. In what appears to be an effort to take its game to the next level, the company has...
View ArticleGerman researchers prototype 6mm thick pico projector
Pico projectors just keep shrinking, and a new prototype developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Engineering is helping said shrinking along pretty strikingly. The team has...
View ArticleTexas Instruments shows off minuscule nHD Pico projector chipset, USB-powered...
Can’t say we really expected to see Texas Instruments’ DLP group here at Mobile World Congress, but it’s hard to deny just how mobile these things are becoming. In fact, the company came to Barcelona...
View Article3D fog projection display brings purple bunnies to life, just in time to lay...
Fog projectors have been around for ages, but projecting a 2D image onto a wavy field of 3D smoke doesn’t exactly result in the most immersive experience ever. This system from a team at Osaka...
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