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The concept of touching things such as light or smells isn’t anything new , but there’s so much room for interpretation that it’s always interesting to see new applications. At Siggraph 2010, a new tactile display is being shown off which allows the user to feel light and shadow. Called Touch Light Through the Leaves, the device consists of a camera which detects light, and 85 vibration units, which have motors, process the light and shadow information into sensations.

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Tactile display allows you to ‘feel’ both light and shadow

The fabled cloak of invincibility was once considered impossible for modern science, chilling out with perpetual motion up in the clouds, but these days scientists are tilting at blurry windmills with a modicum of success several times a year. The latest advance in theory comes to us from Michigan Tech, which says it can now cloak objects in the infrared spectrum

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Invisibility cloak upgraded to bend infrared light, not to mention our minds

Mobile chip wunder-company and recent Microsoft BFF ARM Holdings has released its financial results for the second quarter, and the news is good. Real good.

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ARM beats revenue forecasts, swims in piles of gold coins

Only four months after OpenGL 4.0 hit the scene , the next revision of the cross-platform graphics API is here, bearing gifts of fancier math and more cribbed DirectX 11 features. Unless you’re a graphics guru, though, we doubt you’ll be that interested in “64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs,” so let’s get to the meat of what you’re after: impressive 3D gaming

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OpenGL 4.1 spec finalized, streamlines 3D graphics for web and phones

Why settle for a separate iPad stand and external battery when you can have both in one device? Why indeed.

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HyperMac Stand doubles as an external battery for your iPad

Tired of smacking your LCD around just to get the backlight to function for a few minutes? Acer feels your pain, and it’s offering up a new trio of monitors here in the US for those suffering the ancient panel blues

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Acer debuts S201HL, S211HL and S231HL LCD monitors

The Sony VAIO P : it’s a lovely little, pocket-friendly machine that suffers from one glaring flaw: high price. Leave it to the boffins at Sony Style to come up with a solution for that. No, not Sony’s Sony Style retailer, but rather KIRF manufacturer Sony Style, which has crafted this 1.6GHz Atom-powered mini laptop with an 8.9-inch screen of undisclosed resolution and a “16GB hard disk” that is either actually an SSD or was manufactured sometime in the late ’90s.

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Keepin’ it real fake: Sony Style L80 mini laptop cuts the VAIO P’s price down to size

It’s getting to the point where it’s not terribly easy to keep track of all the in-car entertainment initiatives our wondrous connected future has in store, but here’s two names you’ll want to remember: GENIVI and MeeGo. The former is an industry alliance that now includes automakers GM, BMW, Hyundai and Peugeot Citroen alongside the likes of ARM, NVIDIA, Nokia and Intel, and MeeGo is the Linux-based OS that they’ve just decided will soon be powering our cars. Don’t expect this to affect your daily drive anytime soon, but in the long run we wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the Moblin-Maemo base underpins future revisions of Terminal Mode and OnStar .

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MeeGo becomes infotainment operating system of choice for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more

Wooden computer cases? We’ve been there before , but few offer the simple elegance of this “Modern Danish-styled PC enclosure” photographed by slipperyskip at Collectors Weekly — who jokingly indicates it wouldn’t look out of place on the set of Mad Men . We think an integrated ash tray is a necessity before it could make the cut at Sterling Cooper, but it does appear to have plenty of room on top for scotch glasses.

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A modern, Danish case for your modern, Danish computer