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Tangible Display Makes 3D Touchable

Posted by Zonk on from the haptic-happenstance dept.

moon_monkey writes "Researchers in Japan have developed a display that makes 3D objects solid enough to grasp. The system, created by engineers at Japan's NTT, combines a 3D display with a haptic glove, making 3D items that look real but also feel solid to touch. Two cameras are used to image an object, to make the 3D image. A computer also uses this to render a solid representation. It could be used to inspect products remotely, or even to shake hands with someone on the other side of the world, the researchers say."

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  1. Who is driving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bear is driving!
    How can that be (first post)?

    1. Re:Who is driving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YHBT YHL HAND

  2. on bodies by MrGHemp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of the things that keeps me from believing in "grays", "blues" or whatever type of alien you may or may not believe has visited earth is the relative closemess to the human form they take. For example the common "gray" alien compared to your average human is shorter, has a bigger head, almond shaped eyes, slim body... basicly what you'd think a human who evolved in the brains department but lacked a need for work over many generations of evolution might look like. So if you told me these were future time human travelers... well that would make WAY more sense to me than some race of beings that evolved on another planet.

    THESE "ALIENS" ARE SIMPLY TOO MUCH LIKE US FOR ME TO BUY IT.

    Millions of years of evolution on a planet with a similiar but slightly different enviroment (and certianly different history) than to ours would produce life forms that would be so strange to us we might not even be able to identify them as life... let alone look like humans with big heads. The basic components of a mamal would likely not be present at all in a true alien. You give me something with a head containing a mouth, two eyes, nose, ears... plus four lims, a spine... hell bones for that matter... it's crazy to think an alien would look or have body functions anything remotely like us.

    Now to the whole "they seeded this planet to create us" crowd... well why the hell did they? They would have been just as likely to get a planet full of lizards and dogs to us... and oh new germs, bacteria & etc. compatabile with them but for which they have now defense... yeah right.

    I'm just hoping no one responds to this with something from the Bible proving they are aliens...

    Is it just me, or did they just maybe have something other than an alien craft land there?