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Watch: Disney’s Experimental Touchscreens Let You ‘Feel’ Digital Objects

As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT The latest project out of Disney Research’s lab is a rig that lets you feel objects on a touchscreen, using nothing more than some cleverly programmed vibrations. Image: Disney Research By modulating the voltage of the vibrations supplied to the screen, the team’s algorithm can simulate bumps, edges, textures and protrusions. Image: Disney Research In some cases, that can be predefined geometric information. Here, a Kinect-like depth-sensing camera pulls out some…

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Vaccine deniers: inside the dumb, dangerous new fad

As reported on The Verge. By Lessley Anderson Why a San Francisco community is disregarding mainstream medicine and putting its children at risk In San Francisco’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood, some 200 students from kindergarten to the eighth grade attend classes at the private San Francisco Waldorf School. On any given afternoon outside of the cheerful, modern white building, parents congregate to wait for their kids. Chit-chat includes the typical fodder like play dates and birthdays,…

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Dick Cheney had the wireless disabled on his pacemaker to avoid risk of terrorist tampering

As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has for years warned that America needs to be on guard against terrorist threats. As it turns out, he took that warning to heart quite literally. In a recent interview with medical journalist Sanjay Gupta on CBS News’s 60 Minutes, Cheney and one of his doctor’s revealed for the first time that the Vice President’s pacemaker had its wireless feature disabled in 2007,…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Board of China’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

As reported on TechCrunch. by Catherine Shu Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), according to its Web site. Located in Beijing, Tsinghua is one of China’s most prestigious universities. The advisory board meets annually “to offer advice on the development of Tsinghua SEM,” according to its site. Other notable American members include Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former…

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