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...Gallery in Los Angeles, experts are creating special 3-D images of the museum's Chinese teapot collection via laser photography. The pots can then be "touched" by anyone, anywhere - as long as they have some fancy (and still fairly bulky) equipment like the Phantom, produced by SensAble Technologies Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts. A stylus attached to the desktop device transmits force feedback to the user's fingertips. Following a model on your computer screen, you run the stylus over the "body" of the virtual teapot in the air and feel its curved, slick exterior. Move upward and you sense...
Then there's CyberGrasp. Slip onto your hand what its makers, Virtual Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, California, call a "lightweight unencumbering force-reflecting exoskeleton." I'd suggest it's more like a "twitching, cumbersome bionic-man device," but, then, p.r. isn't really my thing. That said, I like what it lets me do. On a computer screen a 3-D image of a ball appears as well as a representation of my hand, which I control by moving the big, spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force...
...looking forward to the day when you can stop and smell the daisies without putting down your laptop, it may not be too far off. I'm at the much-hyped but financially troubled DigiScents Inc. in Oakland, California, for a click-and-sniff demonstration. When I select the cotton candy icon, a short blast from the iSmell scent synthesizer - which connects to a computer or game console - takes me back to the county fair. Some fragrances are better than others: ocean breeze tends more toward air freshener than the beaches of Bali...
Other innovations don't just talk, but listen. Wildfire, a digital telephone assistant, understands commands like "check messages" or "send a copy to the home office" that she processes in a fetching Kathleen Turner whisper. Wildfire Communications Inc. believes that its voice-mail system can be developed into a full-fledged disembodied secretary. Wildfire may be helpful to you, but not your hillbilly cousins: she has a hard time understanding regional accents...
...embattled Crimson Sports Grille closed its doors for good on May 30, one week after it filed an application to sell its business for $250,000 to Grafton, Inc., the company that owns the Temple Bar and the recently closed Grafton Street restaurant...