If you have trouble finding the buttons on your touch screen, an item on today’s BitList could help you. Of course, you could also just turn your desk into a touch screen, but that’s up to you.
Here’s the list:
- A company called Tactus Technology in California is working on touch screen technology that will allow your phone or tablet to grow button bumps when you need them, and disappear when you don’t.
- This one is straight out of a sci-fi war movie: A company called TrackingPoint has developed a scope that allows shooters to digitally tag their targets. Once the target has been tagged, the weapon won’t fire until the shooter is on target again.
- Want a touch-screen in your office but don’t have any room on your desk? Project one on your wall. From your desk lamp. A student at MIT‘s Media Lab managed to cram all the electronics required to make a projectable touch-screen into a package that screws into a light socket.
- A UK researcher has moved us one-step closer to printing electronic devices at home. His new material, “carbomorph,” is inexpensive, circuit-ready and works in already-existing 3D printers.
- A researcher in Sweden is ready to roll out the next generation of artificial limbs. The limbs’ will plug directly into the patients’ nerves, given them better control over the devices and even some tactile feedback. The researcher plans to equip the first volunteers with the devices early next year.
BitList is our regular feature bringing you links to science articles that we think are worth your time.
