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Submission + - Samsung Develops A Transparent OLED Laptop Screen (thedesignblog.org) 3

Submitted by Dyne09 on Saturday January 09, 2010 @07:38AM

Dyne09 writes: The design blog has posted an entry on Samsung's new laptop with a transparent OLED screen. The photos show a dark tinted and dimly lit screen that is fully see-through. While the utility of a see through laptop probably isn't that high for the average user, several medical and industrial industries could greatly augment design work or frame 3-D models over real life in real-time. Imagine a world where this concept is expanded to include things like car windshields or reading glasses?

Submission + - New robotic hand 'can feel.' But can it love? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Dyne09 on Sunday October 18, 2009 @07:32PM

Dyne09 writes: The BBC has just run an article about a group of Swiss and Italian scientists who have created a robotic hand with forty sensors that "connect directly to the brain." Though fuzzy on the details, the hand provides sensor feedback to a willing test subject who lost his arm to disease early in life. How long until we have access to Star Wars-esque robotic limbs?

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