But who is to guard the guards themselves? - Juvenal
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Japanese boffins build holograms you can feel
JAPANESE BOFFINS have emerged from their smoke filled labs claiming that they have created a hologram that can also be felt.
While we would have thought the first killer app for this would have to be the Internet porn industry, apparently their big idea actually is that you will soon be able to start reaching for virtual light switches.
Hiroyuki Shinoda, professor at Tokyo university told Reuters that until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through.
But now he has a created a technology that adds the sensation of touch to visual holograms projections.
Using ultrasonic waves, the research team's device creates pressure when a user's hand "touches" a hologram. Control sticks from Nintendo's Wii are mounted above the hologram display area to detect movement.
So far the technology has been tested only with simple objects. But virtual light switches at hospitals, for example, and in other places where contamination by touch is an issue could be the first practical things done with this technology.
Of course the researchers have not been experimenting with creating the sensual curves of a pleasure hologram, but if they have any sense they could rake in massive revenues from the porn industry to finance their continuing R&D efforts. µ
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what if someone made a hologram of a knife? Then we'd all be screwed.
Freud would have a field day with you.
Your religious brainwashing is okay though, as it's probably keeping your mind off of your sexual urges for your mother.
Am I dull because I'm thinking solid holograms would be great for robotic manufactoring
cool
As a hot-blooded male, I fully understand the desire to go out and screw everything that moves and has breasts. But, and I know not everyone believes in Jesus, when the Bible says you need to control your lustful urges, it's not because the writers are killjoys. I've frequently had my mother get onto to me whenever I've made the mistake of admitting I look at online porn. Needless to say, when a woman rebukes a man for being lustful, the urge to mention things like shoes and clothes becomes overwhelming.
I guess what I'm trying to say, before I went off track, is that if you're not willing to play with the devil, he can't play with you. If I had never looked at online porn in the first place, the urge wouldn't be as great. That's why I stay away from online dating services, I don't want to make a bad problem worse.
Be careful out there people, that's all I'm saying. Be very, very careful.
"Touchable Holography" at SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw
Now some they do and some they don't
And some you just cant tell
And some they will and some they won't
With some its just as well
Goodbye netbook, goodbye cell
Will we ever meet again?
Supertramp Jack-O was way premature with the one glove and the cheap sunglasses is hit that streets a-runnin and try to beat the masses.
This sounds like building blocks for the a ultra primitive and premature holodeck (pre-alpha stage)...
Trust Japs to make something uber cool and find a uncool way to use it.
I totally agree with the last statement, pr0n industry would pay BILLIONS for this...
... also it could keep Craiglist fairly clean....i saw mugshots of 28 prossies that got busted over the w/e and uuughhh....27 are just too nasty to look at, let alone pay for...