Aus den Wired News von heute:

"Imagine watching a football game on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a player on the back. Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020 as part of a broad national project that will bring together researchers from the government, technology companies and academia. The targeted "virtual reality" television would allow people to view high-definition images in 3-D from any angle, in addition to being able to touch and smell the objects being projected upward from a screen parallel to the floor. While companies, universities and research institutes around the world have made some progress on reproducing 3-D images suitable for TV, developing the technologies to create the sensations of touch and smell could prove the most challenging. Researchers are looking into ultrasound, electric stimulation and wind pressure as potential technologies for touch."