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Mitsubishi Electric's "aerial display" projects images into mid-air

• Ben Coxworth
• February 18, 2016
• 2 PICTURES

As soon as the year 2020, you may be seeing advertising or other imagery floating before you. That's when Mitsubishi Electric hopes to have its "aerial display" technology perfected and commercially available. Already, it's capable of displaying images measuring up to 56 inches (142 cm) diagonally, hovering in the ether.

Will smartphones in 2021 bend and flex like a paperback book?

• Chris Wood
• February 18, 2016
• 2 PICTURES

Whether it's the curved edges of Samsung's Edge devices or Apple's 3D Touch, smartphone manufacturers are always looking for ways to provide users with novel experiences. Now, researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Lab have taken this to another level, creating a prototype device called ReFlex, with a flexible display and advanced tactile feedback.

New hardware to lower cost of expanding up to 10 Gbps fiber-to-the-home

The cost of deploying fast fibre connections straight to homes could be dramatically reduced by new hardware designed and tested by University College of London researchers. While major advances have been made in core optical fibre networks, they often terminate in cabinets far from the end consumers. The so called ‘last mile’ which connects...

First Internet delivering Google Loons launched in Sri Lanka

Google's balloon-powered high-speed Internet service known as 'Project Loon' began its first tests in Sri Lanka Monday ahead of a planned joint venture with Colombo, the country's top IT official said. One of three balloons that will be used in the trials entered Sri Lankan airspace Monday, the Information and Communication Technology Agency...

 

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Hands-on with the LG G5, the first modular flagship smartphone

• David Nield
• February 21, 2016
• 10 PICTURES

Gizmag is in Barcelona at this year's Mobile World Congress, where we're off to a flying start: LG's brand new LG G5 flagship for 2016 brings with it some eye-catching specs, a new modular design and a host of accessories including a 360-degree camera and a virtual reality headset.

HTC Vive costs $799, goes up for pre-order on February 29

• Will Shanklin
• February 21, 2016
• 3 PICTURES

W

e expected the HTC Vive to cost a bit more than the Oculus Rift, since it includes its motion tracking controllers in the box (the Rift's Touch controllers don't launch until later this year). That suspicion was confirmed today, as HTC announced the consumer Vive for a whopping US$799.

Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge hands-on: Two sizes, more curves, blazing fast

• David Nield
• February 21, 2016
• 12 PICTURES

Samsung just announced its two flagship phones for 2016 and we've been putting them through their paces on the show floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Our first impressions? These two have the power and the style to give Apple another run for its money over the next 12 months.

Smartphones to replace cards at bank machines

Here's another use for the smartphone as it invades daily life: in place of your debit card at your bank cash machine.

Virtual reality promises to transform film
Chris Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies.

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