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'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the robotic harvesting and pruning suit, sought to make it industry and task-specific in order to generate cost savings [...]

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VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single or multiple users can shrink, zoom and turn the images by simply moving their hands.
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The iBar: The World's First Multi-touch Bar

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The world’s first iBar was installed at 24, a high-end Soho nightclub in London, and is already a smashing success! The $147,000 table tops have sensors that detect what you’re drinking, so when you can’t remember how many something-tinis you had, the gizmo will figure it out for you by scanning the shape of your [...]

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The NFL Draft and the Fan War Rooms

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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UPDATE: Now featured on cnet.com! Read the article >
As part of this year’s NFL on-line Draft experience, we wanted to elevate the voice and passion of the fan. By mimicking the concept of the team’s Draft war rooms, we setup a community for the fans to talk about their teams’ draft needs and ultimately how [...]