You can now touch 3D images

Imagine you’re watching this awesome “Discovery-channel-type” movie in an IMAX theatre (3-D movie theatre), and you can hold out your hand and touch that enormous creature up there. Incredible, I’d say. I’d be on the edge of my seat if I could do that. Well, the funny thing is, now I can.

Japanese firm NTT (Japanese are brainacs, I’d say), has unveiled a system that makes three dimensional images solid enough to grasp. Wait, don’t gasp yet!
This amazing technology could enable you to feel like you’re touching your distant loved ones while you have a virtual tête-à-tête with them. So now even if your honey is sitting miles away, you can touch him or her (well, not quite literally) while chatting with him or her on Skype or other distance-busters.

The display has an attached haptic glove, due to which numerous force-feedback components make a user feel like he is feeling something solid when he touches it. One of the greatest needs it would meet is the preservation of important material of historic importance in museums and art galleries, without people touching the real thing.

I’m sure there are a thousand other things you could do with it. So the next time you have to close an important business deal with a party half the world away, you can literally shake hands with them even when you’re just connected to them through a computer.

Mark my words, fellas. Some day, you’re going to be able to run the Olympics without moving an inch from your swanky lil PC at home (The Japanese are going to make that possible, trust me.) (NiRa)