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Pcubee – The 5 Screen 360° Tv

this concept is just plain awesome. the main fault with 3d technology comming out recently is the need to have to wear a pulky pair of glasses all the time. well no more!
Created by an engineering team at the University of British Columbia’s Human Communications Technology Lab, the pCubee is a handheld display comprised of 5 flat-panel LCD screens. The cube automatically adjusts to movements and allows users to interact with objects inside a virtual 3D world rendered inside the cube. Check out the video below to see how truly impressive the effect can be:

Scientists Set To Make Invisibility Cloak Like Harry Potter!

Invisibility cloak project is back on! It’s from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light rays.


The idea is to cloak an object and disguise it with the use of light rays, like a “carpet mirror”, as described in the Science publication by Tolga Ergin, a scientist from the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology working on the project.

Using polymer crystals with minuscule rods, Ergin found success with his “invisible cloak,” making it invisible to light wavelengths:

“By changing the thickness of the rods, you can change the ratio of air to polymer.
Since the refractive index of air is about one and the refractive index of the polymer is about 1.52, in principle, we can get any refractive index between those two numbers”
Anyone looking at the object assumes the area is flat, and that there’s nothing hidden there—and it could theoretically hide any object, even a house. There are obviously limitations involved with the science, not least the length of time it takes to create the 3D cloaking structure. [BBC]

First Look: The New Blackberry Pearl 9100

Another picture of the recently sighted BlackBerry Pearl 9100 has surfaced, and this time, it’s accompanied by some technical specifications. From the picture, it’s obvious that the phone will offer a SureType QWERTY keyboard, which squeezes two letters onto a single key. Aside from that, the Pearl 9100 should include a 3-megapixel camera with a LED flash, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS. Of course, none of these are official specifications, so there’s still a possibility that it might change.

Mood Lip Gloss Shows When Women Are “In the Mood”

No question bedevils a man more than whether his female companion is in the mood for a frolic. Now a new lipstick promises to tip off the state of a woman’s libido by changing color as she warms to his advances.

According the Sun, the Too Faced Mood Swing Emotionally Activated Lip Gloss starts clear. When it reaches deep crimson, the wearer is supposedly ready to rock and roll. The product isn’t cheap, however. On Amazon, where it is currently out of stock, it sells for $37 a tube.

The Unreleased Nokia N8-00

The yet unreleased Nokia N8-00 has just been spotted, where it will include the Symbian^3 operating system alongside a 3.5” capacitive touchscreen display, a 12-megapixel camera, HD (720p) recording and an HDMI port. Take a look at the image above and say that those aren’t possible, where you will also benefit from a Xenon flash which ought to help the N8-00 take some great looking night shots. Nokia will definitely price this on the high end side of things.

The Nintendo 3DS

How Cool is This. The Nintendo 3DS will feature 3D graphics, and a new 3D display that doesn’t need any 3D glasses, and the new system with be compatible with software from the Nintendo DS and DSi. Nintendo will be providing more details on their new 3D handheld gaming console at the E3 Expo in LA in June. It will be interesting to see what the 3D is actually like without 3D glasses, it certainly sounds very interesting.