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MacPlay 1.4b2 (Mac)

MacPlay is a no-frills MP3 player capable of playing files from a local drive or from a server on the Internet. Features include proxy support and the ability to configure output according to your computer's hardware capabilities. MacPlay is one of the fastest MP3 players available and is unlikely to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MP3 Player, Hardware, MP3, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, MacPlay, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 1998-09-26

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Intelligent side-impact protection for cars

European researchers have developed a car body that thinks intelligently and protects its occupants before a side-impact. These future cars will be equipped with radar sensors and cameras integrated in the doors. If another car is about to collide with your own vehicle, the system will detect it 200 milliseconds...

Tags: Car, Adobe PDF, Radar, Camera, Radar Sensor, APROSYS, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-15

Virtual factories under your fingers

We've seen lots of multi-touch tables recently, but many of them were designed for gamers. The one developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany is designed for engineers. This Multi-Touch table screen allows to inspect virtual factories. As 'many industrial processes involve reactions in places that are difficult to see...

Tags: Finger, Camera, Coperion Group, Productivity, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-08

LiSA, a robot assistant for life sciences

We've all read for years that mobile assistant robots would help us to take over repetitive and boring work. Surprisingly, there are very few robots able to do this. This is why the German government has launched an initiative to develop safe and cost effective robotic assistants. For example, LiSA...

Tags: Mobile, Life Science, LiSA, Final Version, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-07

An EEG-controlled robotic arm

Many researchers around the world have tried to build robotic devices able to help people with paralysis. Now, European researchers have developed a robot control system based on electroencephalogram EEG. The patients using the Brain2Robot system might regain some of their lost autonomy. The users will control the robotic arm...

Tags: Software, Solution, Patient, Researcher, Robot, Signal, Computer, Test Person, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-25

A virtual chainsaw to train lumberjacks

German researchers have developed a virtual chainsaw for a tool manufacturer. By using the concept of 'mixed reality,' which combines the real world and virtual reality, they've created a simulation tool to train workers to use dangerous tools with no risk to be harmed. As they said, 'It looks like...

Tags: Researcher, Motor, Tool, Tree Trunk, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Interactive 3D-environments based on MPEG-4

Computer scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT have developed a media player for interactive 3D-environments. 'Our system allows us to actively involve the viewers -- they can walk through rooms and select objects, for instance,' says one researcher. This is possible because each element -- a...

Tags: Spectator, MPEG-4, Scene, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-11

A projector in our cellphones?

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed a video projector as small as a sugar cube. This projector contains only a single mirror which can be rotated around two axes. So it is very small, but a big problem remains before a possible commercialization. Light sources also need...

Tags: projector

Blog posts 2006-09-16

Will virtual humans replace machines?

How many times have you been rebuffed by a machine, be it a vending machine swallowing your cash but keeping its soda, or a ticket machine refusing to give you a subway ticket in a foreign country? It happened to me, and I'm sure it happened to you too, and...

Tags: virtual human

Blog posts 2006-03-28

Computers that feel our mood

It certainly happened to you to be so frustrated by the 'reactions' of your computer that you wanted to break it. And the computer industry has noticed, trying to build hardware and software as user-friendly as possible. Still, it would be a good idea for your computer to guess when...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2006-01-08