huds
Gadgets
You Always Wanted Pictures Shot Straight Into Your Retinas, Right?
5:31AM Matt Buchanan | “Retina display technology” sounds frightening if you think about it for more than a second. Brother’s upcoming specs beam 800×600 images refreshed at 60hz directly onto your retina, so that they appear, transparently, about a metre in front of you. More »
Screens
Eyeglass-Mounted Display Tracks Eye Movements To Manipulate Data
12:30PM Sean Fallon | German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems have embedded a head-mounted microdisplay into a pair of glasses—allowing the user to access and manipulate data with simple eye movements. More »
Gadgets
How the F-35 Demon Helmet Looks Inside
3:00PM Jesus Diaz | Ever since I saw the F-35 demon helmet—which gives a 360-degree spherical view of the battlefield—I have wondered how it really looks inside, for the pilot. No more: Jump to minute 3:50. More »
Vehicles
An Ugly Picture of a Beautiful OLED Rearview Mirror
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Try to look beyond that filthy smartphone JPEG compression to get glimpse into the future of auto mirrors. More »
Weapons
New Military Uniform to Have HUD, Mini-Missile System
5:26AM Jesus Diaz | US soldiers are not the only ones getting advanced uniforms. In fact, Korea may be taking the lead with a new stormtrooper suit that–if goes beyond the vapourware stage–will include every sci-fi technology you can imagine. From a helmet with a heads-up-display to the personal cooling and heating system in the suit itself, and a matching weapon that includes a laser-guided target assessment system to fire, you guessed it, mini-missiles. And that’s just the beginning. More »
Screens
Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs
7:51PM John Herrman | We’ve been teased with OLED technology for a while, and with good reason — one of the promises of ultrathin OLED tech is the wide proliferation of HUDs, which aren’t served well by most displays’ opaque panels. By stretching their translucent OLED panels to about 30cm, tiling them together and dropping them into a frame, Samsung has reached a symbolically important touchstone: an OLED window. More »
Gadgets
Interactive Mirrors: The Inevitable Future of Vanity
7:50PM John Herrman | Lit Studios and Interference inc, the same guys who made that ridiculous laser pointer wall a few weeks ago, are back with a touch-enabled interactive mirror. Using a combination of projection techniques, they were able to superimpose a clear, vivid, moving image on top of a regular reflection, creating the bathroom mirror HUD that humanity (read: the sci-fi community) has been yearning for since about 1950.
GPS
Asus R710 GPS with Head-Up Display Demoed on Video
12:00AM Kit Eaton | This is some video of Asus’ swanky new GPS model that projects data onto your windshield, saving you from distracting yourself from the road by peering at a device screen. So will the R710 make you feel like you’re flying a fighter aircraft with glitzy HUD graphics? No, not really, as it projects just some very basic info, like distance to next turn and which direction you’re going in. But if it prevents accidents, and makes navigating across tricky junctions a little easier since you won’t have to move your eyes from the road, seems like a great idea to me. [Navigadget] More »
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