Touchable Holography

clipped from www.reuters.com Japan scientists create 3-D images you can touch TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Imagine a light switch or a book that appears only when you need it -- Japanese scientists are one step closer to making the stuff of sci-fi films into reality after creating a hologram that can also be felt. "Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through," Hiroyuki Shinoda, professor at Tokyo university and one of the developers of the technology, told Reuters. "But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms." clipped from www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp SIGGRAPH 2009 / Emerging Technologies: Touchable Holography clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from english.ntdtv.com Touchable holograms could be used for a wide variety of things... everything from light switches to books with each appearing when needed, and then disappearing when not. And holograms could replace the need for making new interfaces for technology, since they could be changed without having to make a new physical product.

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