NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, U.K.—Tech writer Arun Maini created holograms on an iPhone and more than 12 million views on YouTube with a tutorial on how to do it... with seven items. Maini created credible iPhone-rendered holograms with graph paper, a CD case, tape, a pen, scissors a glass cutter and, of course, the iPhone.
A team of Japanese researchers have come up with touchable holograms using femtosecond lasers, which emit light pulses measuring less than one picosecond.
Sony unveiled a smartphone that does high-frame rate HD video clips and features a 4K, high-dynamic range display.
The North American Broadcasters Association announced that it has gained international support for the activation of FM radio receivers in smartphones.
Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes, a six percentage point increase year-over-year. U.S. consumers now own 27 million more smartphones than they did just last year, CTA says.
Researchers at Microsoft have developed a way to smooth out time-lapsed, personal video footage. “Personal” as in the GoPro or Google Glass, for example.
Sony said this sensor captures still images of fast-moving subjects with minimal focal plane distortion as well as super slow-motion movies at up to 1,000 frames per second in 1,920x1,080-pixel HD.
Nielsen reports that for the first time, a majority of Americans of all age groups own smartphones.
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