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For photography? A truly rugged camera with the excellent Olympus/Sony m/43 sensor and a modest (24-70 equiv), relatively bright (f/2.0-4.0) fixed zoom lens that shoots raw, has a big battery, the ergonomics of the NEX-6, and costs less than $800. I'm still looking for the perfect backpacking camera.
 
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Just a friendly note, Red - you replied to the wrong posting - should have been to the OP, not to my posting.
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Sorry about that. It doesn't show up that was in Flat View, which I use. I know it can be a problem in Threaded.
 
A very slim, "unfoldable" iPhone, that converts to a mini iPad and has a perpetual battery, and which costs no more than $200 to purchase. :)
 
A machine to beat cancer, available to all.
 
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Does it have to relate to photography?

If not, then:

http://www4.telus.net/public/wexsessa/lookfeel.html
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I take it that's your site?

Sounds like you're looking for what is commonly called a "pin display". Search for those, you will see some of the problems and recent progress. The only answer I see is in piezo linear motors or thermal actuators, something cheap, yet amicable to multiplex driving, not in magneto-restrictive or electrorheological materials, and certainly not in electrostatics. You need decent movements, not vibrations or 1/1000 inch "textures".
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I've not got any response yet from Senseg re their haptic display
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You're not an investor. I don't believe their theory translates to a viable product, so I can't see them as being ready to talk to customers about applications, yet.

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Joseph S Wisniewski said:
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I take it that's your site?
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Yes.
Joseph S Wisniewski said:
Sounds like you're looking for what is commonly called a "pin display". Search for those, you will see some of the problems and recent progress.
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About 20 years ago at a conference I was sitting next to a blind fellow , who was taking notes on a gizmo with a one-line ~ 50-character Braille pin display. It worked apparently quite well, but he told me it was fragile/unreliable, and expensive to repair. And it could display only 6-dot Braille (encoded by other sources or his own keyboard entry, IIRC). It was reasonably portable - about the size of two paperback books. These have probably been improved since then.
Joseph S Wisniewski said:
The only answer I see is in piezo linear motors or thermal actuators, something cheap, yet amicable to multiplex driving, not in magneto-restrictive or electrorheological materials, and certainly not in electrostatics. You need decent movements, not vibrations or 1/1000 inch "textures".
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I need to find more about Senseg's technology and get a working sample - if it works as advertised it may be OK, whether it's by physical touch of simulated touch.
Joseph S Wisniewski said:
Joseph S Wisniewski said:
I've not got any response yet from Senseg re their haptic display
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You're not an investor. I don't believe their theory translates to a viable product, so I can't see them as being ready to talk to customers about applications, yet.
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I 'm not planning to get rich (famous might be OK tho) by developing such a device, I'm busy with other projects, and don't have all the skills and resources development needs (I could program an Android cellphone), so I'm hoping to interest a university student in getting involved.

Joseph, Thank You for reading it and sending some comments. I've seen your many insightful postings on various topics in recent years so I do value your input.

However, one of my Mantras (Mantrae?) is "You can't sell an idea, you need to have a somewhat functional working prototype, so the quest continues.
 
electronic holographic clothing.

doesnt require washing or laundry
 
A cheap micro sized cold fusion power device, that can be used instead of batteries in all electronic devices.
 
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happysnapper64 wrote:

A machine to beat cancer, available to all.

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lee uk.
There are old pilots, & there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.
"I'm so fast, when I turn off the light, i'm in bed before the room gets dark" The great Mohamed Ali.
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I'll take that and a pill to cure celiac disease.
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Get out of the rat race and live in the country eating organic food in the sunshine. : )
 
Google are on to something with their glasses.

How about a camera contact lens that zooms and has wide aperture. Maybe a kind of light-field camera for the eye. Perhaps the processor is in your pocket.

Other than that a Ricoh stye compact full frame camera with either interchangeable lens or a fixed wide aperture zoom lens and a 4 million pixel EVF. (Keep your eye on Sony).
 
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