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Schott flexible glass
Corning’s Gorilla Glass is the now-familiar surface for many mobile screens, but new glasses are coming that are both tough and flexible. Schott’s chemically strengthened, ultra-thin glass is thinner than a piece of office paper, and can be produced in roll-able sheets of surprising length. The foldable screen is not quite a reality, but researchers are getting close.
Tech we hope to see in the public sector
NSRDEC virtual
reality dome
Headsets and goggles are all well and good, but researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center are making virtual reality a bit more... real. The VR dome already provides 180-degree, high- resolution simulations; whole-body motion tracking, directional wind and vibrotactile collision feedback are all in the works.
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iReader
As governments increasingly go mobile, secure authentication is struggling to catch up. This microSD security reader brings a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 solution, long available for Android and Windows devices, to iPhones and iPads. Until on-device derived credentials are the norm, this certainly beats plugging into a card reader.