Displays stretch more than imagination

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have moved a step closer to displays and simple computers that one can wear on one's sleeve or wrap around the couch, according to Technology Review.

In addition, they have opened up the possibility of printing such devices, which would make them cheap. Takao Someya, an electrical engineering professor, and his colleagues make a stretchable display by connecting organic light-emitting diodes and organic transistors with a new rubbery conductor.

The researchers can spread the display over a curved surface without affecting performance. The display can also be folded in half or crumpled up without incurring any damage.

A new audio technology from NTT DoCoMo promises to bring ergonomic audio to the mobile space, reports IntoMobile.

NTT DoCoMo's 'spatial audio transmission technology' allows the mobile user to arrange multiple callers in a virtual audio field - so users hear conference-calling co-workers as if they were sitting next to them, with their boss's voice seemingly coming to them from across the table.

The spatial audio tech requires that the user wear headphones in order to “hear each speaker's voice as if it were coming from a unique direction, creating a virtual face-to-face communication environment”.

AcCells' has unveiled technology that allows all existing mobile handsets to be automatically identified when presented at the point-of-sale, regardless of model or cellular network, says SBWire.

The company held the first public demonstration of its working mobile identification device (mID) at the MMT Africa Conference and Expo in Johannesburg earlier this month.

AcCells' mID is capable of identifying any mobile handset and, when connected with a mobile network operator's server, allows users to make mobile payments directly and securely from their handset.