Closing the Gap in Communication Volume 5 | Page 3

The Flying Car will get real. A team at Terrafugia is about to
release a consumer vehicle that can take to the highways and
the skies. The Transition($194,000) will go for sale by the end
of 2009 for $194,000. The Transition with a pusher prop, four
wheels and a pair of 10-foot-wide wings. It features designed
to automotive crash safety standards, with an option for a fullvehicle parachute. The Transition is
gas powered, can fly a range of
about 450 miles. The first
Terrafugia Transition is scheduled
to take to the air next month. From
the pictures, it looks so heavy, I feel
it can not fly high and fast, but it is a
good beginning.

These gloves have
sensors that register the
movements of your
fingers. They translate
them to notes of piano
in your computer; it is
like air-guitar but with
more class (and sound).

The woman below is not
real. I mean, she was real
once, when real actress
Emily O’Brien provided
Image Metrics (you know
their work from GTAIV)
with 35 facial poses in
front of a pair of digital
cameras. From there,
O’Brien was dismissed so
the animators could go to
work. Apparently "ninety
per cent of the work is
convincing people that the
eyes are real." And the
results—while not always
perfect—are pretty
extraordinary. Here's
Emily's "interview": http://

This exoskeleton will allow the
divers to swim with the agility
of… a penguin. Based on the
anatomy of the aquatic,
scientific animal of the Institute
for Human and Machine
Cognition, they designed this
prototype that will help the
performance of the military
when they conduct operations
under the water. The Project
PISCES (Performance
Improving Self Contained for
Exoskeleton Swimming) has
taken several years in its
development by means of the
observation from the
movements of other creatures
like dolphins and turtles.

The energy for tomorrow's
miniature electronic devices
could come from tiny
microbatteries about half the
size of a humancell and built
with viruses.