Versions of this souped-up, “cyborg” tissue have been created for neurons, muscle and blood vessels. They could be used to test drugsMovie Camera or as the basis for biological versions of existing implants such as pacemakers. If signals can also be sent to the cells, cyborg tissue could be used in prosthetics or to create tiny robots.

“It allows one to effectively blur the boundary between electronic, inorganic systems and organic, biological ones,” says Charles Lieber, who leads the team behind the cyborg tissue.

Digital imaging and display technology opens new possibilities for holography. Digital holographic microscopes can display 3D images of living cells in real-time on computers, and digital holographic telepresence is emerging on the technological horizon.

HR3D involved a sandwich of two LCD displays, and advanced algorithms for generating top and bottom images that change with varying perspectives.

The researchers plan to present a tri-panel prototype display at Siggraph.

3 graduate students from University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tsukuba have developed a colloidal display — a clear projector screen that can control its transparency.

They have created several prototypes, such as 3D planar screen, to show how this technology can be useful.

Here’s a video [youtube.com] showing the display in operation and how it works. Pretty neat…
A Colloidal Display: membrane screen that combines transparency, BRDF and 3D volume
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvxJs_4m0ZE

A Colloidal Display: membrane screen that combines transparency, BRDF and 3D volume (2012)
http://96ochiai.ws/colloidaldisplay

We developed an ultra thin and flexible BRDF screen using the mixture of two colloidal liquids.

Our membrane screen can be controlled using ultrasonic vibrations. Membrane can change its transparency and surface states depending on the scales of ultrasonic waves. Based on these facts, we developed several ap- plications of the membranes such as 3D volume screen.

This project is patent pending and submitted.

Working at Fermilab, a research team from the North Carolina State University and the University of Rochester have sent one word – “neutrino” – through 240 meters of rock.

Of course, merely generating neutrinos in one place and detecting them in another is fairly routine at Fermilab, since that’s one of the things that big particle accelerators do well. In this case, the neutrinos are detected by the MINERvA instrument 100 meters underground.

However, modulating a message onto the neutrinos is another matter entirely, since the reason a neutrino can pass through galaxies without shedding much of their energy is that they interact so weakly with ordinary matter.

Nor was the modulation particularly complex, but that’s okay, since a simple on-off cycle is good enough to carry binary information.

The research, which has been submitted to the journal Modern Physics Letters A, points out a few other challenges in actually using neutrinos for communication – such as the need for a particle accelerator to generate the beam, and that even a detector weighing four tons only captures a few neutrinos out of every ten billion.

Microsoft’s working on some wild technology in its Redmond labs, and our own Joshua Topolsky recently toured the facilities to see the latest innovations

A wall where it can teleport you to another world without really going anywhere.” Bathiche shows off a number of systems that aim to accomplish this vision, including a system that projects LED light to detect a human being’s movements in space, and a glasses-free stereoscopic display that can be “steered” by the viewer as they move.

Are we getting closer to really effective volumetric 3D display technology? A new display, designed in Russia, uses cold fog and a laser projector to create a volumetric 3D image that you can touch.

There have been cold fog 3D displays before this but this one has a reasonable resolution and looks near to being a finished product that could be on sale soon.

Solid 3D Projection That You Can Touch
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/3397-solid-3d-projection-that-you-can-touch.html

Move over Kinect — Displair from Russia is a gesture interface in thin air
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/11/23/move-over-kinect-%E2%80%94-displair-from-russia-is-a-gesture-interface-in-thin-air/

Displair is not alone in using the cold fog as a screen to project images but they appear to be far more advanced with the multi-touch technology. Fog Screen from Finland adds wow factor with its large air displays to the entertainment and retail industries.