'Hologram' fans are cool, and coming to an Asus PC case near you. Unfortunately, there's still a part of my brain that would rather disregard the obvious safety concerns and continues to insist 'I bet the robot voice from this hologram fan would sound sick—you just need to lean in a wee bit closer.' Thankfully, a team out of the University of Chicago has created a soft holo fan that will save me from myself.
Called the BloomBeacon, the project features two soft and flexible blades for the purposes of creating a touchable holographic display. One of the arms is covered in LEDs, the other features capacitive pads for touch sensing. That means this holofan isn't...
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