[CEATEC 2012] CEATEC 2012 will be home to a number of interesting products and one that has caught our attention is the TV phone glasses prototype from NTT Docomo. Just in case the name of the product throws you off, it’s basically a phone that you wear around your head – like a pair of super smart glasses.
The glasses features a few high-resolution ultra-wide cameras that are used to capture the eyes and the surroundings of the wearer. When the wearer makes a video phone call, the glasses combine the (fish-eye) live video feed of his/her face and the surrounding area (see image in the full post) to create an animated polygonal version of him/herself – complete with digital lips that are synced to the dialogue, and audio from a microphone, the user is represented with a pretty accurate looking avatar that can even move its head in the same way. The video call from the other end will be projected onto the glasses itself, so there won’t be a need for a phone/tablet to pull it off. (more…)
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Some of us think that the best things in life are simple items – such as some home-made jam, butter and freshly made toast. Well, if you want to spruce up your dining room with a unique toaster to go along with the rest of the appliances there, how about keeping your fingers crossed that this conceptual toaster would actually be funded to make its way across the manufacturing line? The Jamy toaster concept is the brainchild of Nathan Brunstein, where it relies on integrated Wi-Fi connectivity to pull weather information from a server somewhere, so that what pops out from the toaster will provide basic weather information for the day as such as the sky’s prognosis as well as temperature.
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It’s embarrassing when you go for a class or lecture, or attend a meeting or watch the movies when your phone suddenly starts to ring. This happens to the most careful of us from time to time as turning our phones off or putting it in silent mode just slips our mind. However this rather stylish jacket by designer Victor Johannson might be able to solve your woes by lining the interior of the jacket with the interference principles of a Faradays cage. This should in theory block all radio frequencies, thus turning your phone into a rather expensive piece of plastic while in your breast pocket. We’re not sure if this is the best solution, but we have to admit it looks pretty classy and could come in handy for those times when you just don’t want to be reached. Of course turning off your phone will work out the same way, but we’re always open to novel ideas.
