CEATEC: Unicycling Murata robot is back, this time faster
Muratagirl, the unicycling robot, is back at Japan’s Ceatec with improvements and some new tricks.
Muratagirl, the unicycling robot, is back at Japan’s Ceatec with improvements and some new tricks.
As 3D imaging emerged as a theme at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications took the technology a step further and presented its research on 3D gesture control.
Thumbs up, lights on. Thumbs down, lights off. That's all a user would need to do with the GestureID project from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. After more than a year of intensive research, the group presented its project at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin.
Samsung has developed an outdoor digital advertising system that tailors ads based on its audience.
Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso Plattner Institut in Germany called Nanotouch allows a touchscreen device to be controlled from its backside, preventing fingers from occluding the screen.
A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing
Panasonic, which started producing televisions 56 years ago, claimed to set a world record with its 300 millionth set on Oct. 7. Panasonic says it is the only TV manufacturer to reach that level of production.
IBM announced Tuesday that it has created a process allowing its manufacturing facilities to repurpose otherwise scrap semiconductor wafers.