A little touch of augmented reality
Up until now, augmented reality technologies have focused primarily on visual and audio feedback to augment the users’ experiences. Researchers at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, however, have developed a way to create augmented tactile sensations, making it possible to change the feel of real world surfaces.
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Biometric fashion: clothing that responds to biometric cues.
Technosensual, an exhibition in Vienna, Austria, brings together scientists and fashion designers from all over the world to demonstrate...
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Smartphones Reading your Emotions: Creepy or Cool?
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, filed a new patent for something yet unheard of in the smartphone...
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“Liveness” in Facial Recognition Security.
The latest version of the Android software, known as Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a unique new feature as part of the Face Unlock app from...
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Could EEG and eye tracking pair up for autism diagnosis?
We’ve reported on several different research studies investigating the potential use of eye tracking in early intervention for children with autism. Recent research at Boston Children’s Hospital is suggesting that there may be another biometric technology that could possibly be used for autism diagnosis—EEG.
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Are Tattoos the next fingerprints?
According to a recent United States Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) request for information, the Biometric Center Of Excellence (BCOE...
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