This is a brilliant idea for an augmented reality app. The idea is simple: point your iPhone camera towards any object with printed text and the app translates the text and maps it back onto the object on your screen. Could you imagine if this was integrated into a pair of glasses? One of the [...]

“SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.” Sixthsense, a brilliant example of augmented reality, was designed by Pranav Mistry, a researcher at MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group. Watch the video above, or the fairly recent [...]

Some really clever researchers at the University of  Tokyo’s Shinoda lab have figured out how to rig up a haptic-feedback hologram system. Using two Nintendo Wii remotes (Wiimotes) to figure out a person’s location, an image is displayed on a convex mirror to generate a holographic effect. That’s been done before, but the the really [...]