{"id":168746,"date":"2023-07-31T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-display-could-soon-bring-touch-to-the-digital-world"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:22:26","slug":"3d-display-could-soon-bring-touch-to-the-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-display-could-soon-bring-touch-to-the-digital-world","title":{"rendered":"3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osM1R1PnR2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine an iPad that\u2019s more than just an iPad\u2014with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku that jump out from the screen and even hold your partner\u2019s hand from an ocean away.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the vision of a team of engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder. In a new study, they\u2019ve created a one-of-a-kind shape-shifting display that fits on a card table. The device is made from a 10-by-10 grid of soft robotic \u201cmuscles\u201d that can sense outside pressure and pop up to create patterns. It\u2019s precise enough to generate scrolling text and fast enough to shake a chemistry beaker filled with fluid.<\/p>\n<p>It may also deliver something even rarer: the sense of touch in a digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine an iPad that\u2019s more than just an iPad\u2014with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku that jump out from the screen and even hold your partner\u2019s hand from an ocean away. That\u2019s the vision of a team of engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}