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Heads-up Virtual Reality (HUVR) Project at UC San Diego

This is a project going on a the University of California, San Diego. They call it the Heads-Up Virtual Reality device, or HUVR (pronounced like the word “hover”). I call it awesome.

HUVR “couples a consumer 3D HDTV panel with a half-silvered mirror to project any graphic image onto the user’s hands and/or into the space surrounding them”. Apparently, the user’s head is tracked in order to get the correct perspective, and there is a haptic feedback device on hand for manipulation. I noticed that their haptic device looks a lot like a Novint Falcon, which I believe was designed for 3D gaming.

Chatimals keeps the resident chatterbox quiet

Chatimals could very well be the next best thing your household could have if your little one seems to be the chatterbox in the family. You will be able to choose from a dinky looking hamster or a meerkat friend depending on your taste, where it is smart enough to retain whatever you say to it, repeating incessantly in a slightly patronizing voice. Want …

Fujifilm FinePix Z800EXR offers new touch screen sensation

The Fujifilm FinePix Z800EXR is a new digital camera that sports a second generation EXR sensor and Hybrid Auto Focus System, where it will hit the market this coming autumn – which means you can still use it to capture your favorite photos this coming Christmas, although you will have to settle for something else this autumn. Featuring a sleek design and advanced features such as a large and intuitive 3.5″ touch-screen LCD display, an internal Fujinon 5x zoom lens, a 12 megapixel EXR sensor with a spanking new Hybrid Auto Focus System and enhanced Dual Image Stabilization, the Z800EXR is more than capable of producing images which are simply as magnificent as the camera itself. To know more on how this marketing speak measures up, look into the extended post.

XCOR Aerospace Lynx spacecraft accepting pre-orders for space tours

I think we all know that the future is going to bring us space-travel tourism. Virgin Galactic has that Spaceport America coming very soon, and there is that fairly interesting Spaceship 2.

This is XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx spacecraft. It looks smaller than what Sir Richard Branson from Virgin is working on. The Lynx first showed up …