Visualization

This Korea.net article reports Korea opened a virtual reality i-Fashion store that is expected to help enhance customer choices and boost clothing sales. From the article: "The shop, operated by Shinsegae Department Store, will be the first of its kind in the world, and aims to use the country's extensive ubiquitous information technology (IT) infrastructure to help consumers pick clothes without actually coming to stores to try them on.

The i-Fashion Clothing Technical Center at Konkuk University and clothing manufacturer FnC Kolon Corporation built the system with support of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

Shinsegae is Korea's second-largest department store chain.

This ZDNet's Emerging Technology Trends Blog article reports MIT researchers have designed a new kind of microscope which creates 3D images of living cells. From the article: "This microscope uses a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. One researcher said that their “technique allows you to study cells in their native state with no preparation at all.” And he adds that “for the first time the functional activities of living cells can be studied in their native state.” I have to admit that their results are spectacular.

This ScienceDaily article reports computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars. From the article: "The algorithm, first presented at a computer graphics conference last August, was since used by sports network ESPN and sporting-technology company Sportvision Inc. to create a new effect for racing coverage.

The fast-paced innovation hit prime time in late July when ESPN used the Draft Track technology to visualize the air flow behind cars in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, a NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.