For years, wireless earbuds have competed on one thing above all: shutting the world out. Bigger seals, stronger noise cancellation, deeper isolation. But a growing group of listeners wants the opposite, at least some of the time. Runners need to hear traffic, office workers want to catch a colleague's question, and commuters want a podcast without missing a station announcement. On October 28, 2026, Samsung announced U.S. availability of Galaxy Buds On, its first open-ear earbuds, built for ex...
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Flying pixels create self-levitating displays
A team of researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Lab have unveiled a system of flying 'BitDrones' that let users explore virtual information by interacting with levitating voxels. The system, called BitDrones, allows users to explore virtual 3D information by interacting with physical self-levitating building blocks. BitDrones is the first step towards creating interactive self-levitating programmable matter, materials capable of changing their 3D shape in a programmable fashion using s...
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NOAA’s Science On a Sphere is a room sized, global display system
Novel and revolutionary Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is an educational tool that uses computers and video projectors to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages.
This tool has been developed by Dr. Sandy MacDonald along with researchers at NOAA. Unique and captivating, it's been used in science museums, visitor centers, zoos, aquariums, laboratories, and schools around the world.
It consists of a spherical projection system created by NOAA which presents high-resolution vid...
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