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TerraSight http://www.sarnoff.com/research-and-development/vision-technologies/automotive-robotics-3D-modeling/3D-modeling from Sarnoff corp drapes video from a variety of sources (ground based cameras, UAVs, etc) onto a 3D map. You can then simply move through the world and see what the various feeds are seeing.

I happened to have worked on the product during its earlier stages. We even implemented the ability to control the camera via an XBOX 360 controller which was awesome.

http://www.sarnoff.com/products_services/governmen t_solutions/homeland_security/iris.asp

According to Ray Kolczynski, who claims to be the Program Manager for the Covert Iris Scanner project at Sarnoff Corporation (http://www.sarnoff.com/), "the system *does* work on a subject wearing most common forms of sunglasses". Noteably, the scanner would not work on a person wearing glasses/sunglasses/lenses made from a material reflecting or absorbing IR radiation. Standard reflective sunglasses might only reflect VISIBLE light, not necessarily IR light.

Hopefully, we who like to wear our tin foil hat in public will be able to purchase our IR-absorbing contact lenses any day now. In the mean time I'll be wearing green-glass, reflecting sun glasses.

You wouldn't trust a public terminal, but you could probably trust a public power supply so you don't need to carry around batteries. People already trust public wifi networks ala Starbucks. CPUs and memory can continue to shrink, but what about keyboards and screens?

Keyboards can be embedded in cloth which could be rolled up. Displays could be made to be rolled up also (1, 2, 3). People are working on non-volatile nanotube-based memories which could replace bulky, fragile hard disks. Cool, zero boot-up time.

It's pretty reasonable to imagine that in five or ten years there could be a cheap computer with the feel and durability of thick cloth, that rolls up to be about 6 inches long and maybe an inch wide. Maybe you velcro it around your forearm when not in use. I'd buy one.

There is a recent press release on the stuff by Cinea and Sarnoff. The release on the Cinea website is inside an annoying sequence of pop-up windows, but Sarnoff has the joint press release here. not much more information, but useful.

IMAX collaborated with Sarnoff last year on a project to create IMAX 3D movies more cheaply. Normally, IMAX 3D movies are shot using 2 IMAX cameras to get the 3D effect. However, since IMAX cameras are HUGE and HEAVY, they wanted to be able to shoot 3D using only 1 IMAX camera and 1 regular 35mm camera.

This technique was presented in several computer vision and graphics conferences (including SIGGRAPH) last year, and is probably what they built on for this newer process.

It seems bizarre that such amounts of detail that were never in the 35mm print can be added as a post-production step, but it actually works pretty well (at least from what the results I saw in their papers.)

Here's a link of results of their process:
http://www.sarnoff.com/search/tech_papers/hybrid/i ndex.asp

The Sarnoff corporation has more information available on their homepage, including a downloadable video clip of the the flashlight in action; available here.

S-Cubed works by bending beams of electrons in a way that allows the electron gun -- which shoots out the beams -- to be moved closer to the screen.

S-Cubed works by bending beams of electrons in a way that allows the electron gun -- which shoots out the beams -- to be moved closer to the screen.

Well you can see a somewhat old one at the David Sarnoff Research Center and I'm working on putting together a fairly large tightly coupled system with Quad Xeons connected with Myrinet. Hopefully I can get the $250K I'd need for 16 nodes (64 procs) and 100GB of shared disk.