Des chercheurs ont réalisé une prouesse impressionnante : imprimer de la lumière sur du papier !

Et si la lumière n’était désormais plus limitée aux écrans et aux ampoules ? Grâce à cette nouvelle innovation révolutionnaire nommée Lightpaper, il est maintenant possible d’imprimer de la lumière sur une feuille de papier. DGS vous présente cette nouvelle technologie lumineuse qui va révolutionner l’impression.

Teslasuit: This Full Body Suit Lets You Feel Virtual Reality

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The ‘Teslasuit,’ a wireless suit created by a UK based company, claims that their invention can allow users to feel sensations in the virtual world. If the prototype is brought to the market, it could revolutionize the world of entertainment.

De la musique qui prend (vraiment) aux tripes

26 février 2016

Utiliser nos boyaux pour écouter de la musique ? Une idée un peu folle d'un artiste tchèque met ce principe en action, à nos risques et périls. Vous avez bien mangé ?

Il y a peu de temps, Tracks explorait déjà deux nouvelles manières d'écouter de la musique n'impliquant pas directement les oreilles : l'une agissait directement sur le système nerveux et l'autre passait carrément par le vagin de madame pour en faire profiter son bambin. Ce coup-ci, il va falloir s'ouvrir de l'intérieur pour ressentir la vibration de la musique... car c'est par vos tripes que vous allez danser.

Your Credit Card Has Been Transformed into a Wristband, Keyring and Stickers

PSFK by Ido Lechner

In a contactless world equipped with the Barclayscard, or bPay for short, buyers can make purchases via tapping their wristband, key ring or surface-affixed sticker on applicable reading machines. Users must register their device before wielding the power of instantaneous purchase in stores like Starbucks, David Lloyd, Pret a Manger, Mark & Spencer, among others.

Makeup Mirror at CES 2016 Takes All the Guesswork Out of Beauty

Pucker your lips and watch augmented reality transform them

The 7 Best Ideas From CES 2016

The Consumer Electronics Show holds thousands of new ideas. But these are the ones that will matter into the future.

This week in Las Vegas, the electronics industry assembled to woo journalists with the shiny new toys of the year. Most of them aren’t worth your time: Thinner TVs. Dumb objects with Wi-Fi. Apps you’ll never use.
But if you have the patience to sort through the pile, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will show you the trends to come: 2016 will be a year of virtual reality, big drones, small mechanics, and wireless power. Here are the best ideas from CES 2016:

HTC Vive "Chaperone" Mode

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Cette ville qui vaut un milliard ne sera jamais habitée

 La ville fantôme sortira de terre aux Etats-Unis mais personne n'y vivra. La métropole est vouée à être le terrain d'expérimentation de grandes innovations technologiques.

Une ville tout droit sortie d'un scenario de science-fiction. Dans les plaines arides du Nouveau-Mexique aux Etats-Unis, entre le site qui a servi de test pour la première bombe atomique et la frontière du Mexique, une nouvelle ville émerge.

Cette ville de 39 kilomètres carrés, située à l'ouest de Hobbs, aurait la capacité d'accueillir 35.000 habitants. Elle disposera d'un centre des affaires moderne et d'une banlieue résidentielle. Les rues flambant neuves seront bordées de parcs, centres commerciaux et d'une église.

Mais cette ville qui a bénéficié d'un investissement d'un milliard de dollars ne sera jamais habitée. Cette métropole virtuelle a pourtant tout d'une ville américaine ordinaire. Mais la CITE (Centre d'Essais et d'Évaluation de l'Innovation, en français) deviendra à court terme le terrain d'expérimentation de plusieurs grandes innovations technologiques. Elle sera utilisée comme une sorte de tube à essai géant pour tester les nouvelles technologies qui façonneront l'avenir de l'environnement urbain.

Game-Changing Product Design: Small L16 Camera Replaces an SLR and a Bag Full of Lenses

Market research shows that 50% of folks who own an SLR camera no longer use it. It's simply too bulky to carry around, especially with a full complement of lenses, and most of us find it more convenient to shoot with our phones.

Enter brilliant inventor Rajiv Laroia, who stopped carrying his SLR for the reason mentioned above. Laroia observed that tiny, smartphone-sized camera lenses were becoming more and more affordable, and he then spent nine months studying optics to design a camera that would incorporate them. The result is the Light L16 camera, which incorporates 16 lenses, each with their own sensor, and fires 10 of them with every shot.

Trnasparent Solar Panel Windows

This Innovation Turns Solar Cell Technology Completely Transparent

Published: Jul 21, 2015 • References: extremetech & themindunleashed.org

Windows don’t typically do a whole lot more than let natural light in and a person’s gaze out, but what if solar cell technology had the potential to double as an invisible energy source? Material engineers at Michigan State University have developed a transparent solar cell that could transform every window into a source of power.

At first the technology altered the color and transparency of glass, giving off a kaleidoscope effect that was not very natural. However, this process led engineers to discover that they could make the active layer of the system transparent or essentially invisible. How? The solar cell absorbs and transmits light in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum of wavelengths that the human eye cannot see.

This technology is not limited to windows, but has the ability to replace any glass surface -- smartphone screens, e-readers and laptops could become invisible energy sources that are able to charge themselves. Installed in a home, you could even be able to say goodbye to dreaded electricity bills.

3D-Printed Knit Sneakers

These Kicks Made From Polymer Yarn are Completely Recyclable 

Published: Jul 14, 2015 • References: dezeen & dezeen
Royal College of Art graduate Ammo Liao created these knit sneakers for the 2015 graduation show. The sneakers are called Bio-Knit trainers due to the eco-friendly fabric each shoe is made with. Every part of the shoe from the soles to the uppers is made from a 3D-printed recyclable material.

The shoes are made from a single polymer yarn-like material that is extremely flexible and allows each shoe to be comfortable and easily movable. The uppers of each shoe are knitted flat and then attached to the 3D-printed sole.

The idea for the knit sneakers came from Ammo Liao’s desire to create a shoe that could be recycled. The use of a single polymer allows the entire shoe to be recycled without going through a sorting process, which saves money, time and resources.

Le hoverboard de Lexus enfin en action dans un skatepark

Après des semaines de teasing et autant d’interrogations, le constructeur automobile Lexus a enfin publié une vidéo de son hoverboard en action. Surréaliste.

4DX Motion Seating Makes Viewers Feel Part of a Film

With movie theater attendance dropping in recent years, many cinemas are making moves to enhance viewer entertainment and boost box office revenues—one surefire way to satisfy both is with 4DX motion seating.

CJ's 4DX Lab in Los Angeles recently hosted a Mad Max screening to show off the effects of the immersive theater chairs. As vehicles in the movie rumbled across the desert, so did the chairs. Bullets being shot at characters were simulated with puffs of air and the dry desert winds were recreated with wall-mounted fans, smoke and fog machines.

These 4D seats are often installed to take up a few rows in a normal movie theater, or take up an entire auditorium, complete with strobe lights and pneumatic lifts. Now that summer blockbusters like Jurassic World, Ant-Man and the newest Mission Impossible are in theaters, motion artists are working to program these seats to offer a movie experience that can't be recreated at home.

 

Danit peleg 3D prints entire graduate fashion collection at home

for her fashion graduate collection at shenkar, danit peleg wanted to do something very different. she skipped the sewing machines and fabrics, and went straight towards 3D printing machines. it was a struggle, because she barely knew anything about the technology, and creating entire dresses from home scale 3D printers hasn’t really been done yet. influenced by triangular painting compositions, her first piece was a red jacket. using 3D rendering software called blender, just produced files that danit started experimenting with a variety of materials and printers. alongside the help of 3D printing experts techfactoryplus and XLN, she got her hands a different printers polyactic acid plastics (PLA).

BUDDY : Your Family’s Companion Robot

Today, crowdfunding begins for BUDDY, the world’s first affordable companion robot. BUDDY’S campaign seeks to raise $100,000 and will last 35 days, with funds going towards bringing BUDDY to mass market. At heart, BUDDY is a friendly companion. BUDDY entertains and educates, makes video calls & sends messages to family & friends, acts as your calendar and alarm clock and monitors your home. BUDDY augments the care of younger, older and less mobile people by providing companionship and help with day to day activities. With BUDDY, carers can use video to check in remotely with their loved ones. Additionally, BUDDY is an open-source technology platform, meaning that developers across the world can collaborate to build software and hardware for BUDDY. Rodolphe Hasselvander, creator of BUDDY, says: “It’s been a long time dream of mine to bring a companion robot to mass market. BUDDY is the manifestation of this dream: a friendly robot that helps with day to day life, but also boasts the latest in robotics technology. I’m excited to bring it to the crowdfunding community today.”

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Consumer-Targeting Billboards

OfferMoments Creates Custom, Targeted Advertisements

Published: Jun 13, 2015 • References: offermoments & ibeaconsblog

By making it possible to create targeted advertisements on billboards, OfferMoments promises to be the most "scary yet exciting" thing you've seen in marketing in a while.

Once a consumer downloads the app, they are able to get tailored notifications when walking by digital displays on the street or in-store. For instance, if you were to walk by a coffee shop with Bluetooth activated on your smartphone, using "OfferBeacons," OfferMoments alerts you that you're eligible to come in and try a new coffee at a discount—it will even call you out by name.

Now that many brands are looking to beacon technology to hyper-target marketing efforts to one rather than many, it's no surprise that OfferMoments was named the winner of the Venturefest in 2014 and is now a part of Virgin Startup.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/125182903

Amsterdam’s new 3D-printed steel bridge is revolutionizing the building industry

Heijmans, the innovative Dutch construction company behind the smart highway and glowing Van Gogh-inspired bicycle paths, has unveiled their latest avant-garde project: a 3D-printed steel bridge in the heart of Amsterdam. Created in collaboration with Dutch startup MX3D and designed by Dutch designer Joris Laarman, the 3D-printed pedestrian bridge is part of Heijmans’ aspirations of building the “spatial contours of tomorrow.” Multi-axis industrial robots will construct the pedestrian bridge using cost-effective and scalable technologies.

Wi-Fi That Charges Your Gadgets Is Closer Than You Think

It’s easy to take Wi-Fi for granted (as long as you have the password). But what if it did more than facilitate your Pinterest habit? What if instead of just connecting your devices to the Internet, it charged them as well, no wires required?
That’s the promise of new research from a team at the University of Washington, which has developed what it’s calling a “power over Wi-Fi” system that can recharge batteries through the air, from up to 28 feet away.

Bionic Lens

A new bionic lens implant could give patients the unique ability to see three times better than standard 20/20 vision for the rest of their lives.
Dr. Garth Webb, founder and CEO of Ocumetics Technology Corp, a company committed to eliminating glasses and contact lenses for patients, invented the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, which resembles a small button.
The lens inside the patient’s eye is removed and replaced with an artificial lens, much like cataract surgery. The process then involves flushing the eye with a saline solution. Just 10 seconds after the implant is in place, the folded lens opens up, moves itself over the eye’s natural lens and vision is improved, the company says.
The lens was created after eight years of research and $3 million in funding for research, international patents and trials. The patent is expected to be available as soon as 2017, as long as clinical trials go as planned.

Source: news.discovery.com

Google's cofounder wrote an essay about how the world has changed since the company started (GOOG)

Google is known for its ambitious projects, and cofounder Sergey Brin highlights exactly where the company is going in an addition he wrote to the company's proxy statement.

The statement doesn't reveal anything new — but it shows how Google sees the technology industry evolving.