Last year at NAB conference, Light Field Labs announced their plans to make a Holographic monitor. If it had not been for the names of the founders and their work at Lytro, such a press release would be easy to dismiss. The word hologram gets tossed around quite a lot, but this team seemed incredibly qualified to actually deliver. Light Field Labs was founded in 2017 by Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and Ed Ibe. Three exceptionally qualified serious light field experts. Karafin came from Digital Domain, Bevensee has a PhD in Particle physics (he worked on the Hadron Collider) and Ibe’s track record goes back to IBM and is marked by a strong mechanical engineering background. All three men were in the leadership team behind the Lytro Cinema Technology, and in particular the professional high end Cinema camera and capture system. The Lytro Cinema camera has 755 RAW Megapixels, runs up to 300 fps with up to an incredible 16 stops of Dynamic Range and records a whopping 400 gigabytes per second. The Light Field Lab team in the past has made both consumer and professional products and successfully delivered them to the market.

The huge Lytro Cinema camera with its hexagonal form factor containing an array of 95 individual cameras.

A holographic display is a type of display that utilizes light diffraction to create a virtual three-dimensional image of an object. Holographic displays are unique from other forms of 3D imaging in that they do not require the aid of any special glasses or external equipment for a viewer to see the image. Read More

Aerodynamicists use wind tunnels to test models of proposed aircraft and engine components. During a test, the model is placed in the test section of the tunnel and air is made to flow past the model. In some wind tunnel tests, the aerodynamic forces on the model are measured. In some wind tunnel tests, the model is instrumented to provide diagnostic informationabout the flow of air around the model. In some wind tunnel tests, flow visualization techniques are used to provide diagnostic information about the flow around the model.
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We’re big fans of Bondic, the plastic welding substance that originally came out in 2014. With its ability to create new plastic material for bonding, fixing, and filling stuff, it has become the go-to repair solution for problems that super glue and similar products just aren’t equipped to handle. This year, they’re turning out the second generation of the product with the BondicEVO.

A modified version of the plastic welding tool, the new product retains the same formula as the original Bondic, all while coming with a new design for both the pen applicator and the UV curing agent. To the unfamiliar, the original used separate tools for the applicator and the UV light, so you first apply the product using the pen, then pick up the UV light to cure it.

The BondicEVO, on the other hand, combines both items in a single handheld tool, so you can quickly switch to curing the plastic as soon as you apply it by simply turning on the light and aiming the lighted tip at the specific area. With two tools in one, it’s also a little bigger in size than the old design, which should make it a whole lot harder to lose and misplace, all while providing a steady and ambidextrous grip that’s a lot more ergonomic than the previous setup.  They also fitted it with a more powerful UV LED to enable a faster curing time than the four seconds it takes the original. Read More