Tag: touch
Paper Generators By Disney Research Harvest Electricity From A Touch
When I think about companies that are on the cutting-edge of touch technology, I immediately think of Disney Research. Their team seems to come up with innovative ideas nonstop, and they often provide the creativity needed for other companies to take their own ideas into completely different directi ...
Voice Activated Internet And 3D Printing Change Lives For Blind Kids
We use our eyes for much of our online experience. If we were blind or visually impaired, our entire Internet experience would suffer. There is plenty to listen to online, but the majority of our experience requires sight. Children who are born without the ability to see aren't able to fully experie ...
Disney Unveils New Haptic Mid-Air Touch Sensation Technology Aireal
I don't think it's a secret that we here at Bit Rebels love technology, especially technology that is based on all things science fiction. It's when technology is taken beyond our current realm that the most exciting results will follow, and that is the case with virtual reality accessories today. M ...
The Revolutionary Watch That Allows You To Feel The Time With A Touch
As new technologies emerge, design becomes more sophisticated. We would hope it also becomes more optimized for everyone, not just certain groups of people. The fact that a wristwatch requires vision to tell the time seems limiting. Shouldn't a watch allow any person to tell the time? A watch that r ...
Siri Creator Working On Sci-Fi Interface That Predicts Your Thoughts
When Siri was first released, it was received with a bit of skepticism. People didn't really comprehend the complexity that was at the core of the Siri engine. "Could you really ask 'it' anything and still get a response?" was the question on everyone's mind. It took quite a while for people to unde ...
Touch Communication Bracelet Lets You Touch Someone Who Is Far Away
Ever since people have been falling in love on social media, they've been coming up with ways to bridge the distance. There have been a lot of 'touch communication' devices released. They've included everything from ways you can feel your loved one's heartbeat to ways you can kiss and it supposedly ...
New Television Service Allows Viewers To Touch Virtual Objects
The virtualization of the world is constantly moving forward. New concepts are announced each day, and you can tell that the second coming of the virtual reality implementation is going to be the successful one. As some of you might remember, about a decade ago people were dreaming of virtual realit ...
Solar Powered Glass Crosswalk Sign Mixes Sci-Fi With Reality
Innovation is what's driving society further, whether it is within technology or not. When it is actually something technological, there are a bunch of benefits that can be reaped from it, until the power goes out that is. We see a lot of technological concept designs here at Bit Rebels. They are se ...
Touchscreen Braille Smartphone For Visually Impaired Techies
Wouldn't it be nice if visually impaired people around the world could get to feel the same feeling you got the first time you experienced a smartphone? It's a rush of adrenaline most of us take for granted now that we've had smartphones for several years. It must be hard knowing that everyone aroun ...
New Transparent Touchscreen Technology Knows Who You Are
Touchscreens have become the backbone of modern computing. Most people use one everyday, and they're getting ever more popular. But I bet there are a whole bunch of people who don't know how a touchscreen really works. It's not a very complex technology like you might think, but it's not exactly a s ...
Braille Map iPhone Accessory Guides The Blind Through Touch
Visually impaired people have limitations when it comes to experiencing a smartphone. Even more limited is their ability to use the many different useful apps available. Maps have become a vital part of most smartphone models, and that is something that has created a revolution within GPS navigation ...
Finger Mouse Tracks Movements In 3D Space In Cramped Areas
The mouse has long been the primary device to control things on the screen. That along with the keyboard of course, but the mouse probably stands for about 90% of all the interaction with the graphics on the screen. The mouse has always been a tricky device to use in certain places. In cramped space ...
Holographic Laser Touch Surfaces Are The Next Gen Touchscreens
It might be that soon touchscreen solutions will be a technology of the past. We want more and more touch enabled surfaces, and the glass oriented touchscreen solution just doesn't allow for a scalable upgrade it seems. We want our stuff plastered everywhere, and we want to be able to control it thr ...
Futuristic Glass Keyboard To Illuminate Your Desk In 2013
The chance that you are staring at an old and boring ordinary computer keyboard right at this moment is actually quite high. You know, those keyboards with plastic buttons carefully weighted with a little spring underneath each one and a sound that we have all heard before. There is nothing wrong wi ...
Displair Makes Midair Touch-Enabled Air Holograms Mainstream
Being a huge science fiction fan has its drawbacks. The one thing that always bugs me is that inventors have pretty much managed to realize most of what we have seen in the movies from the '80s and the '90s. However, we are no closer to realizing midair holograms, especially not holograms that we ar ...