The absolutely pimptastic propellerheads at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems in Germany have created an embedded OLED eyeglass display that beams images right onto your freaking retina and will actually read your eyeball movements and allow you to manipulate menus and select stuff. Deep breath. The images are bright enough to read in daylight and appear to be coming from about a meter away. The picture from the fraunhofer site (seen below) shows this display on ordinary eyeglasses. I’m doubtful that their prototype actually looks like that but since the beamer is really tiny (19.3 by 17 millimeters) and housed in the hinge area I think using this thing for real and maintaining my resolute coolness is doable.
Archive for Sci-Fi Tech
Science Fiction Isn’t Much Fun Without Science
Close to every nerds heart is the periodic table of elements. I have a copy tattooed to my inner thigh as we all do, it’s essential information at the ready in case I am in desperate need for the atomic weight of Roentgenium while doing something naked. However essential, the Table is a dry read. Sometimes you just need a cute cartoon character to fill you chock full of that synaptic pathway building education. Here for your consideration is the atom Oxygen. See how well he interacts with all the rest of his atomic kind. Thanks PostHumanBlues.
Warp Drive Propulsion on the Horizon?
Marc Millis, former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains in this video how it might be possible to achieve superluminal travel using our current understanding of the universe. All I know is, sign me up for that please! This guy seems to know what he’s talking about so take a look for yourselves.
HumanKind In A Solar Perspective
Astronomer Thierry Legault shot these pictures with his Takahashi TOA-130 refractor telescope and a Canon 5D Mk II along with a few other astronomy and camera doodads. These images were captured soon after launch and show the shuttle Atlantis alone and the Atlantis and Hubble as they cross the face of the sun. Pictures like these put the real in my Sci-Fi. Thank Gizmodo.
A Nerd Eye View Of The Science In Star Trek
While staring blissfully with my mouth open like a slack jawed yokel during my IMAX viewing of “Star Trek” last Thursday, I paused from time to time to sport a Spock like eyebrow lift at some of the, let’s say “fascinating”, science on display in the movie.
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Tired of your enslavement to our cruel, sprocket filled, titanium encased robotic overlords? Well now, from the land of the rising sun, home of strange devices and beautiful beguiling women, comes your chance to end that silly resistance to smooth white plastic encasement and cool blue limb accentuation.
Minority Report Tech Gets Real
I’m not easily seduced by tech gear and gadgets anymore. I’ve been there, I’ve bought it. Sure, I have a nice computer and a shiny iPhone, but what I want out of my gear these days is true utility. I need gadgets to go with me and seemlessly be of practical use.
