Immersive Experience Via Touch


The Philips Research Emotions Jacket is a research platform that uses the sense of touch to take one's cinematic experience to new levels, allowing a viewer to experience the intense emotions felt by characters on-screen. Considering that:

• Picture quality, surround sound and ambient lighting stimulate the eyes and ears to make us feel as if we are in the movies.
• Touch is another important sense that has a strong connection with the emotions.

Philips Research is investigating why there is such a strong connection between emotion and touch and how this can be used as stimulus for people to master their desired mood. Scientifically, this is still relatively unexplored territory and it provides a new and additional dimension in creating experiences. This a very interesting platform.

Utilize Fireworks to Prototype and Design Rapidly with Accuracy


With Adobe Fireworks there's no need to hire a contractor to code your Photoshop web page design with HTML & CSS. Fireworks CS4 can save you a ton of time and money. In other words, you can prototype websites and application interfaces, rapidly. Also, you can create and optimize images for the web accurately and faster than ever before with this enhanced toolset.




Key Features

• Sophisticated prototyping—Creatively design interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Export website comps to Adobe Dreamweaver® software as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into Adobe Flex® with professional-quality coding.
• Superb design tools—Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® files. Apply effects, styles, and blend modes to add depth and character to text and symbols.
• Optimization and scaling tools—Optimize graphics for virtually any scenario with preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping.
• Intelligent integration—Import Photoshop PSD files while retaining layers, effects, and blend modes, and save Fireworks PNG files in native Photoshop format. Copy and paste objects from Fireworks CS4 into Dreamweaver CS4 or Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional software.
• RIA authoring support—Prototype layouts for RIAs in Fireworks and then export them directly to Flex, while retaining absolute positioning, styling, and professional-quality coding.

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LCD Headphones by Vizio


Brian Tong, CNET Editor, shares details about Vizio's 1.4" circular LCD screen headphones with USB storage. I love the design/look of these headphones; they are quite stylish!

• Audiovox D1809PK 8-Inch LCD Slim Line Portable DVD Player with Headphones (Black)
• Pyle Super LCD/DVD/Headphones Package for Car/Truck/SUV -- Pair of PL91HRGR Adjustable Headrests With Built-In 9" TFT/LCD Monitor With IR Transmitter & Cover (Gray) + PLD136 In-Dash Mobile DVD/VCD/CD/CDR/CDRW/MP3 Player + PLVWH6 Dual Wireless IR Mobile Video Stereo Headphones With Transmitter.
• Audiovox Car VOD10 110.2-Inch Overhead LCD Monitor with Built-in DVD Player and 2 Headphones
• Metrophones LCD Headphones with Digital Metronome

IMAX: Hubble 3D - Inside NASA's Hubble Telescope Repair Mission

"Last year, in 2009, the space shuttle 'Atlantis' launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida en-route to a special mission: NASA'S last-ditch attempt to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, before it was too late to salvage human-kind's greatest tool for peering at the mysteries in the farthest parts of the sky.

In this new film, 'IMAX: Hubble 3D', viewers are treated to stunning footage of a NASA mission, as well as to fantastical voyages to the interior of the star clusters of the Orion Nebula, a place where stars are born, and to our closest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, fully 2.5 million light-years from home.

This film tells the story of the final Hubble rescue mission (May 11, 2009), largely from the perspective of a film crew with unprecedented access: the astronauts who took part in mission STS-125, aboard the shuttle Atlantis. Also, footage from mission STS-31 (1990) and STS-61 (1993) are included in this film." ~ CNET News by Daniel Terdiman

'IMAX: Hubble 3D' launched in IMAX theaters, today, March 19th.

Related Links:

• Orion Nebula (Colorful) Art Poster Print - 11" X 17"
• Hubble Image: The Eagle Nebula - Poster 20in x 40in by Xentrex
• Hubble 2008: Science Year in Review (Book and Companion Poster)
• Eagle Nebula, Taken from Hubble Telescope Photographic Poster Print by Arnie Rosner, 42x56

See three 5-minute presentations and demonstrations of new, 'green' electronic devices shared earlier this year at The Greener Gadgets Conference feature, Sustainable Show-Off. Two of these gadgets make appliance usage eco-friendly in much easier ways.

"The BabyMat is a research concept that explores ways of improving the safety of un-attended babies. It allows relatively detailed data on the position and activity of the baby to be wirelessly transmitted to parents or other caregivers." ~ Philips Research