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Attendees of Florida's Walt Disney World Resort this coming holiday season will be treated to a different kind of light show, with Intel's Shooting Star drones forming colorful, flying animations across the night sky.
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Among the flood of toys that accompanied Star Wars Episode VII last year, Sphero’s app-controlled BB-8 was a clear standout. With this year's version, Sphero makes users feel (kind of) like a Jedi (sometimes) with the Force Band, a wearable that allows BB-8 to be steered with motion controls.
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There’s nary a Star Wars fan alive who hasn’t at some point swung a makeshift lightsaber around. A new patent awarded to Disney suggests that future visitors to Disneyland may get a more hands-on experience, using a physical lightsaber to deflect lasers fired at them by animatronic bad guys.
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Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have built a smartwatch prototype that can detect items the user is holding in real-time, by tuning into the distinct electromagnetic noise signatures they emit.
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Circle With Disney allows parents to be more informed about their kids’ online activities while also limiting family screen time on every device in the home. That includes smart phones, tablets, computers, and even gaming consoles.
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Open Bionics, with support from Disney Accelerator, transforms prostheses that kids would rather hide into those that Iron Man or Frozen's Elsa would wear. The company says that for kids it transforms being different into being cool.
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The weird and wonderful world of Disney may be about to get a little more weird and wonderful with the company filing three patents suggesting it may intend to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to control giant marionettes and suspend floating displays in its future theme park shows.
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In a blow for asymmetry, Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich have developed a computer algorithm that can take any shape, no matter how cock-eyed, and make it spin like a top.
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Disney World recently commemorated the opening of the New Fantasyland expansion in the Magic Kingdom by having a mechanical flying dragon soar over the grounds on its own.
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Disney Research has created an animatronic robot that can play catch and juggle balls with a human partner.
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Chevy has worked closely with Disney to update the Test Track attraction to allow guests to design and test their own automotive designs.
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Disney recently received a patent that outlines plans for augmented reality cakes and other food products that would display interactive movies and images onto edible treats.
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