Monday is the last day before the chaos of the main Exhibition begins.
It is a perfect occasion to walk through the other exhibitions. First, Emerging Technologies. This year featured both technology submitted to Siggraph and curated content, selected by the Program Chairs for that exhibition. Among notable technologies presented are the XO (One laptop per child), a ‘transparent’ car viewed from the driver’s seat, electronic hair for machines with a sense of touch, Microsoft’s Surface table and fantastic screens with e-Ink.
The Surface table had, among other applications, a cute Puzzle game where each piece is made of a fragment of a video, displayed under transparent square tokens laid out on the table.
The screens showcased by eInk have a built in smoothing property, allowing them to display extremely fine prints. They come in color and in flexible sheets and best of all, they keep displaying their content after being powered off.