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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (AIST) announced iCubeSpace, a system which enabled an operator to feel and touch to control a virtual obstacle on 3D display panel. According to the spokes person on the TV news, possible application areas will be ranging from TV gaming, training for surgical operations to virtually touching an art object displayed in an famous museum. The press release is only in Japanese so far.  In the meantime, a DigInfoTV picked up the news at CEDEC 2010 held in Yokohama last week. The TV news available on YouTube is here although it's only in Japanese, too. Source: AIST's New Release,   DigInfoTV news via YouTube 9/7/10

There must be a variety of leading edge technologies and components required for Smart Grid which is recently assumed as the next generation electric power distribution network. Electric power has been supplied by an electric power company to every building or facility wherever needed. "Internet" is often used as an analogy of Smart Grid since various information generators are connected to the internet . In this context, the electric power supply network has been used as "down load" only while Smart Grid will enable us to download and upload of the electricity for multiple directions as the information traffic flows on the internet . An important difference from Internet , however, Smart Grid has to assure stable and continuous power supply without no delay. No "Best Effort" is allowed on Smart Grid. Smart Grid sounds pretty smart and beautiful as written and pronounce. However a huge amount of new technologies and efforts for standardizat...

There are many companies that focus on assisting people in enhancing quality of life. KGS Corporation founded in 1953 keeps developing and suppying new ideas of products for visually impaired persons. Braille Memo, BM16, as an example, looks an excellent device of portable notebook with which a user can take a memo at anyplace anytime. According to the product description, it equips convenient accessories functions such as a clock, an electronic calculator and a calendar that enable a user to manage indispensable information on daily basis. Electrical communications interface of BM16 is reportedly limited to RS232C. More compact and handy type of Braille Memo Pocket seems to be available now, and it has USB and Bluetooth interfaces, so that wireless communications capability is obviously available between the pocket sized Braille memo device and a personal computer. This type of devices are not showy but very important technology products to help us improve our lives in the so...

Seeing is better than reading.  This is a new music video game supplied by Konami.  Source: DigInfo via YouTube 2/26/09

It is really simple! One action of putting a USB stick in your PC or Mac, and you get a web-site where you perhaps access to exclusive or personalized content. No ID, no password even no url is required for you to type in. When you remove the stick, the site closes. QiGO LLC offers the USB sticks, QiGO keys and services, which free you from the log-in process to access to a site of premium Internet content. You can use the QiGO key not only with your own computer but also with your friends' or your company's. It's cool. You may want to use the QiGO keys to share some of premium Internet content with your friends or family members. This is just a piece of example. There seem to be a broad range of applications of the product and services, including but not limiting to, photo and video sharing, kid-safe Internet, multi-player games, media subscription, entertainment promotion. Even in enterprise market segments, QiGO seem to have capability to improve some business transacti...