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Intel works on 'touchable holograms'

intel.com — In a hospital in Houston, two surgeons appear to be performing a difficult procedure on a cardiac patient. In fact, only one of the doctors in the room is real. The other is a replica-a lifelike physical model whose shape, appearance and movements precisely mimic those of a specialist in Tokyo who is performing the actual work.

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  • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37Computer, end program.
    • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11The program wouldn't want to have a bug!
    • RetroRufio, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41"When you finished using a replica for one purpose, you could transform it into another useful shape. A human replica could morph into a desk, a chair could become a keyboard, a lamp could be transformed into a ladder."

      ... Anyone else thinking Carmen Electra?
    • floatesque, on 10/12/2007, -30/+0Nice Intel propaganda.. did they buy an interest in Digg?

      Can we flag this as spam?
    • NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16People mod down RetroRufio but he is probably right. Right now all this work is for hospitals and surgeons. But as soon as it gets a little more feasible you know the porn industry is going to be the ones pumping billions of dollars into it.
    • super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11mmmm holodeck......
    • eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10but could you... interact... with it?
    • billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Intelligent comments end here...
      x

      Read on for 100 more of the same porn joke!
    • mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Aren't meta-jokes great?

      No? Nevermind, then.
    • abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2The future is now... Anyway enough with the lame saying. This is very cool tech, can't wait until it is in the market.

      ---------------------------------------
      http://hackedgadgets.com
  • jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18So did anyone else expect a video, after that enticing and horribly anti-climactic description?
  • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Reminds me of that one episode of Futurama where the Professor creates miniature models of the cast to go inside someone's body. The actual people control their models via virtual reality, and it's like you're actually miniaturized and inside the body.
    • billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Sort of like the matrix, except it's your body. And you're not trapped in a pod full of goo.
    • strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What lame asses are digging down a reference to Futurama? FOR SHAME!
  • burntfire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Just think of what it will do for the adult entertainment industry…
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9There's no holography involved. Similar concept, totally different approach.
  • fastfood15, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5think if the new porn industry possible!!!!


    Anyway, worthless without a picture or video!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • calorifer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3is anybody else thinking about dynamic porn when reading that?
  • Lane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19how the hell? it would make long distance relationships allot better though..
  • 2point0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10A Jessica Alba touchable hologram ;)

    What an incredibly hot piece of ass....

  • UberC, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Screenshot or it didn't happen.
  • talipdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/

    dugg but...

    this apparently is about as far in developement as the self replicating robots

    http://digg.com/hardware/First_Self_Cloning_Robot_
    • CriX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Agreed. I wish them tons of luck but can't help rolling my eyes at the same time. Those catoms are quite a ways a way from being 1-2mm in size. Even then, an objects composed of these catoms would be pretty easily recognized... hopefully they have some "holographic anti-aliasing" project going on the side. ;-)
    • rshnrocket85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1all in due time...remember when a computer was a size of a house?
    • steamedlice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd give 'em about 50-80 years development on this.
    • EmperorAwesome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would love to project myself anywhere and get some sort of video feed back. If a collection of catoms can assume any shape, then flight isn't out of the question. It'd be like a 'human' transformer. But the point is, they could be programmable to do more than replicate my actions. With enough processing power they could be self-sufficient 'me's' going to work in my place. The ultimate American dream!!!
  • HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7processor + emitters of electrostatic/electromagnetic charges strong enough to hold a large volume object together, and even move/transform it. All neatly packed within a few millis cubed. Cause surely THAT won't fry itself.

    Can you imagine the complexity of the graph theory applications that would be required to collaborate towards emulating a single entity? How about the bandwidth required for them all to communicate with each other and the host controller?

    If this ever works on anything even remotely approaching a practical level it will be a truly amazing feat of hardware and software engineering. At the very least, I'd be shocked to see it in my own lifetime.
    • iXneonXi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The whole world would need to go fiber and the existing fiber networks would have to be expanded definitely.

      Also, more datacenters will need to house supercomputers.
    • egarc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3HonoredMule, thanks for raining on my Jessica Alba fantasy.
    • HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sorry :P
    • steamedlice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd expect some large scale models that look neat, but are slow as heck for the next 10-15 years, but for the big and fast stuff... I agree. Not in our lifetimes.
  • iXneonXi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Transfer the Doctor's program to the mobile emitter.
  • oogee, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I would like a hologram of my dead dog, Buffy. I could pet her one last time . . .
  • WorldGroove, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFlpHHH9EIU

    You all knew someone was going to post this..... I apologize that I had to do it.
  • Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5goodbye blow up dolls, hello hologram :P!
  • KayMan2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT HOLOGRAMS!

    The most appropriate SciFi comparison would be Stargate SG-1's Replicators or Stargate Atlantis' Asurans. This is nothing like a Star Trek Holodeck (well, unless it breaks down and the holograms become real... but that would never happen).
    • Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1omg, NNNEEEERRRDDD!

      hahahaha

      jk, just giving you a rough time, somebody had to say what you said:P

      I'm probably going to get buried for saying the above:P.
  • Zephiron, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0PT/BR: http://www.htk.com.br/noticia.php?noticia=696
  • Daveecee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is the kind of article that really needs pictures or video...
  • gregorrothfuss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2inaccurate title. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/talks/ic-ri-2004.pdf has a pretty decent presentation on it.
  • Lane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2be sure to secure your WIFI before attempting to have sex via your new $10,000 cyber suit in 2060....
  • mayurpatil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Amd while come with a better one for sure!
  • steamedlice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How the hell did the headline writer come up with "touchable holograms" for Pete's sake. "Claytronics" is a new phrase, but it's one that is readily understood.
  • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In other news, intel is now at the mercy of crazy lunatic "science" professors...
  • thatrez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Surgeon - Connection Terminated ......
    Surgeon - Connection Established
    Surgeon - Establish Visual Link
    Surgeon - Commencing Heart Transplant....
    Surgeon - Ping timeout
    Patient Dies
    Surgeon - *close BitTorrent*
    Surgeon - Connection Established....
    Surgeon - Establish visual link
    Surgeon - Open.Text.Window "It's not my fault he's dead... this damn software is buggy"
  • thomn8r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>you know the porn industry is going to be the ones pumping billions of dollars into it.

    Well, somebody is probably going to be pumping billions of *something* into it...
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