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In Japan, 3D images in your pocket
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 Japanese mobile phones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step -- becoming completely three-dimensional. Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones. The gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic vision display, weighs only one kilogram (2.2 pounds) and resembles an upside-down, multiangular pyramid full of mirrors on top of a liquid crystal display. "It's very small and portable," Rieko Otsuka of Hitachi's Advanced Research Laboratory said Tuesday. Taking advantage of the portability of the display, the company expects it can be put to use to show museum pieces at schools so they will appear as if they are standing up right in front of students. Otsuka expects to put the device to further use. "I'd like to see the technology eventually applied to mobile phones, so people could see images three-dimensionally from their handsets," she said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Space Technology News - Applications and Research
Boeing-Built Spaceway 3 Satellite Operational After Launch
St Louis MO (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Boeing announced that it has sent and received the first on-orbit commands from the Boeing-built Spaceway 3 satellite following a successful launch of the spacecraft. All data shows that Spaceway 3 is healthy and operating normally. An Ariane 5 rocket lifted the Hughes Network Systems, LLC payload into space yesterday at 7:44 p.m. EDT (23:44 GMT) from Ariane Launch Complex 3 in the tropics of Kourou, French Guiana. Boeing's Mission Control Center in El Segundo, Calif., reported spacecraft acquisition five hours, 46 minutes later, when signals were received at the ground station in Hartebeesthoek, South Africa. |
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