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Copyright Actuality Systems
Volumetric 3-D Display from Actuality Systems. Full color,
walk-around viewing with 100M voxels in ~25cm sphere.
2-D image slices projected onto rotating screen produce 3-D effect.

This section provides additional links to various leading edge technology sites in a wide variety areas ranging from electronics to robotics to nanotech.

3D Displays & Technology:
- Actuality Systems, Inc. - volumetric display
  - See virtual worlds in the round - New Scientist - June.5.05
  - 3D display aids medical research - optics.org - Apr.7.04
  - Crystal-ball display renders images in 3D - EE Times - June.26.02
  - Army Research Lab Places Order for New Perspecta Spatial 3D Platform from Actuality Systems - Actuality Systems PR - June.25.02
  - 3D display aids drug discovery - optics.org - Oct.29.01
- Augmented Reality - Bauhaus University Media Facility
- DDD - Dynamic Digital Depth - convert 2D to 3D for display on LCD with special filter.
  - Glasses Not Required: New software may bring 3D television into your living room - Technology Review - June.6.02
- Deep Video Imaging Ltd - 2-layer LCD
  - First Look: Actual Depth - TechTV - Feb.28.02 (with streamed video report)
- Dimensional Media Associates- Un-Aided, non-holographic 3-D Display
  - 3D Projection Without the Glasses - Wired - Nov.17.00
- DTI - 3D LCDs without glasses
- Geowall Consortium - large display with 3-D stereoscopic projection used for analysis of satellite remote sensing and other geo data.
- IO2 Technology Revolutionary Interactive Heliospace Free-Space Display
  - the Heliodisplay - Ohgizmo.com
  - IO2 Tech - heliodisplay
- Polymer Vision - flexible screens
- Teleportec -video-conferencing with life-size images
  - See Arthur C. Clarke projected from Sri Lanka to a recent gala in his honor at the Playboy Mansion - EarthShipTV
- LCD paint licked - Nature - May.1.02
- 3dcgi.com - Your guide to cutting edge 3D graphics technology
  - 3dcgi.com - 3D Graphics Links
- Toshiba 3-D Flat-panel display
  - Toshiba Achieves Breakthrough in Flatbed 3-D Display - JCNN - Apr.15.05
  - Japanese 3D display goes the distance: University of Tokyo scientists create a 3D display with an image depth of several metres - optics.org - April.12.05
- Sharp 3D LCD
  - Sharp's 3D LCD Technology Now Available for Desktop Computers - Sharp Systems - Aug.9.04
  - New Notebook Computer Has 3-D Display: New Display Shows 3-D Images Without Using Funny-Looking Glasses - ABCNEWS.com - Oct.17.03
  - Sharp Debuts 3-D Display Laptop - Wired - Oct.13.03
  - Sharp Introduces World's First 3D Notebook - Sharp Systems - Oct.13.03
  - Sharp's 3D monitors: Look, no glasses - CNET.com - Dec.20.02
  - Sharp display opens third dimension - optics.org - News - Oct.18.02
- Holograms
  - MIT Spatial Imaging Group
  - HyperMedia Technologies - Holography
  - Holography Lasers and Holograms
  - Dynamic Display of Real and Virtual 3-D Holographic Images Using TI's DMD - SWMED
    - Holographic Movies Show Promise For Medical, Military Applications - ScienceDaily/UTSMC - June.15.05
  - caesar: 06/09/2005 - Mobile Holography and Laser Systems
    - Fast holography of faces: An ultrafast holography system captures the shape of live subjects - optics - June.14.05
  - Articles:
  - Liti holo
    - Liti holo - hologram kits
- X3D
  - 3D Tour of the Solar System - X3D
  - 3D ads to put virtual beers on bars - New Scientist - Mar.23.04
- Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
- 3DV Systems-Capturing Object Video - automatically separate objects by depth.
- Dimension 3 - 3D glasses
- Arc Science Simulations - large 3-D displays of maps, geographic info, etc.
- The 3D Displays Page - MIT Media Lab
- 3D Animation, Holographic Projection And Holograms - Musion Systems Ltd, UK
- Articles
  - AIST develops 3D image projector - Pink Tentacle- Aug.16.07
  - New Scientist 3D plasma shapes created in thin air - New Scientist - Feb.27.06
  - The StereoMirror display - gizmag - Sept.14.05
  - Pop-Out Video From Flat Displays - ABCNEWS.com - June.15.04
  - Hitachi develops omnidirectional 3D display - EE Times - Feb.27.04
  - 3D Mars recreated from photos - BBC - Feb.24.04
  - Futuristic displays are coming into focus - CNET - Nov.12.03
  - 3D Display Goes Vertical - Technology Review - July.15.03
  - Motorola Labs Announces Significant Progress in Carbon Nanotube Technology - Motorola - July.1.03
  - Light Show Makes 3D Camera - Technology Review - May.6.03
  - Companies Working in Three Dimensions - Tech. Review
  - Crystalline materials could mean 3-D TV and ultrafast computers - Chemistry.org - Mar.28.02
Other Display Technology
Other Electronics
- Electronic paper
  - E Ink - flexible displays
  - Plastic Logic
    - Plastic Logic Fabricates Largest Plastic Active-Matrix Display - Plastic Logic - Dec.6.05
  - Polymer Vision
    - Philips Paper-like Display Earlier Than Expected - GeekZone - Sept.6.05
  - New electronic paper displays video too - CNN.com - Sep.24.03
    - E-paper may offer video images - New Scientist - Sept.24.03
  - Flexible displays ready for roll-out - optics.org - Mar.05
  - Flexible Display Screens Readied for Production: Roll 'Em, Fold 'Em, Stick 'Em in Your Pocket: Long-Envisioned Plastic Sheets Will Make E-Newspapers, E-Books a Reality - Washington Post - Feb.2.04
- Projectors
  - Lasers Project the Big Picture - Wired - June.6.06
  - Holograms enable pocket projectors - TRN - June.30.04
- AT&T Labs Speech Technologies - high quality text to speech; includes demos
- Covert Eyeglasses Display - AE Innovations
- DLP (digital light processing) - Texas Instr.
- 'Laser vision' offers new insights - BBC - Apr.27.04
- Microvision - microdisplays
  - Scanning the future - The Economist - July.31.03 - A new type of digital camera
  - New projector to fit on a chip - CNET.com - Feb.14.02
- NTERA’s NanoChromics™ technology - NTERA Nano Technology - "Ink-on-paper readability", "Paper-white or crystal - clear backgrounds"
  - NTERA's NanoChromics™ Technology Makes Paper-Bright, Low-Power Visual Communications Affordable for Intelligent Devices - Ntera - Feb.14.05
- Personal Radar on the Horizon - Wired - Nov.00
- Foveon Digital Cameras - RGB within a pixel. Carver Mead invention.
  - Release set for "sharper" digicam chip [Foveon] - CNET - Sept.23.02
  - Digital camera chip challenges film - BBC - Feb.28.02
- Reconfigurable chips: Computing's Big Shift: Flexibility in the Chips - NY Times - June.16.03
- Red laser projects virtual keyboard - optics.org - Mar.20.02
- Vialta - Video Phone
- This Is Your Business, Virtually - Wired - Jan.22.03 - large screen, hi-res video conferencing
- The Walk-thru Fog Screen
- Ultra high Resolution TV - 30M to 40M pixels
  - New display 'as clear as a glossy magazine' - New Scientist - Oct.25.04
  - Just Like High-Definition TV, but With Higher Definition - NY Times - June.3.04
  - Reality TV - e4engineering.com -Sept.26.03
- VR
  - The VirtuSphere: full body immersion Virtual reality at last - gizmag - Nov.11.05
- Processors
  - New processor computes at light speed - New Scientist - Oct.30.03
  - What Is Grid Computing, Anyway? - Newsfactor - July.24.02
- Storage:
  - Nantero - fast computer memory using nanotubes
    - A new type of computer memory - Economist - May.03
  - Holographic:
- Touch Sensitive Controls:
  - Boston Dynamics
  - MIT Touchlab
  - SensAble Technologies
  - University of North Carolina Nano-Manipulator
- White & Hi-Performance LEDs
  - For sale at Holly Solar
  - Cyberlux Corporation - LED light accent equipment
  - Lemnis Lighting
  - Mule Lighting
  - LumiLeds - bright LEDs for LCD backlighting and other apps.
  - The LED Light.com - Source for White LED Flashlights,et
  - NICHIA
  - Super Bright LEDS
  - Vos Solutions - using LEDs for home lighting.
  - Articles:
- Organic LEDs
  - OLED-Info | Your source for Organic LED information
  - Universal Display Corporation
  - CDT - Cambridge Display Technology
  - OLED-Display.info & OLED-Display.net
  - Articles:
    - Organic LEDs Shine Invisibly: Long-lasting near-infrared LEDs could be used to make cheap, flexible night-vision displays and sensors. - Technology Review - Jan.30.07
    - CMO announces 20-inch, the world's largest OLED display - IDTech - Mar.19.03
- Other Innovative Electronics
  - PC NoteTaker - "the Electronic Pen that uses regular paper"
Amateur Lightwave Communications
Other Communications Technology
- Vocera Communications
  - Your Trekkie Communicator Is Ready - Forbes.com - Mar.16.04
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