Monday, May 12, 2008

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS!!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/breakthrough07
A VERY VERY VERY COOL SITE! AWESOME~ everyone should go see...

MULTITOUCH COMPUTING........
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224762.html?series=37
....It allows any number of users to lay hands on the screen as if they were manipulating real objects. On the monitor, recently dubbed the Media Wall, Han uses his hands to spin a virtual globe and then zoom into the canyons of Manhattan. “A mouse is an indirect pointing device,” Han says. “You’re working with an object that’s not on the screen. Multitouch computing is direct manipulation.” Multitouch computing isn’t new—the concept has been kicking around since the 1980s, and two Breakthrough Award-winning products, Apple’s iPhone and Microsoft’s Surface

PRINTER THAT PRINTS ANYTHING~~
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224759.html?series=37
A printer that prints anything, 3D... cheese, choco, structures...
People report printing with everything from food (Easy Cheese, chocolate), to epoxy, to metal-powder-impregnated silicone to make conductive wires. 

NEW Wii!!!!!!! - Wii FIT
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224767.html?series=37&page=7&?series=37
The Nintendo Wii is many things—a motion-sensing video-game console, a retail success story, possibly even a cultural touchstone. What it isn’t, despite its players’ controller-waving antics and media hype about gamers finally getting off the couch, is an exercise machine. Until now. The Wii Fit, a soon-to-be-released suite of games that uses a $70 weight- and balance-sensing Balance Board, does everything from analyzing posture to revealing how bad you actually are at yoga. It turns fitness into a game, instead of a chore. 



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