Jaguar and Land Rover Want To Display Your Cars DATA Directly On Your Windshield

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Many developments and evolutions has been made to car's dashboards in the last few years to change the way you interact with your car and multimedia devices. but Jaguar came up with a whole new way to display car's Data and that is directly on the windshield !

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In order to reduce your distraction off the road while driving, Jaguar is going to display the car speed, temperature, navigation graphics, and more Data, all on the windshield. and this is going to increase the driver's concentration. Also, the new system will includes displaying both racing line and braking guidance as well as virtual cones and ghost cars for more performance in the races and sport activities.

This is not all, you will also get rid of the use of buttons to access and control the dashboard, instead, a simple pre-programmed gestures and motions will offer you a full control of the system, which will reduce the physical button's number.

Dr. Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology, said: ""We have identified which functions still need to be controlled by physical buttons and which could be controlled by gesture and carefully calibrated motion sensors,The system is currently being tested on a number of features including sun-blinds, rear wipers and satellite navigation maps. It has the potential to be on sale within the next few years".

As an extension to this project, researchers are tending to replace the rear view mirrors with virtual displays, showing a 3D images provided by cameras using The Eye-tracking technology..

There is a no fixed date to release this project, but we would hopefully be able to use this technology soon.

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BMW Protecting Its Factory Workers With A 3D Printed Thumb

3D printing is making a huge development around the world, it has proven that it is a great way to provide accurate design and useful products for consumers.

The giant German car manufacturer BMW has recently though about exploiting the 3D printing technology, but not to sell products for consumers, BMW wanted to protect its factory workers who have to make repetitive tasks that requires using their hands, specially their thumbs.

Factory workers in BMW, specially Vehicle Assembly plant workers are always using their thumbs to make assembly line tasks that requires strength and pressure, which

always cause strain on the thumb joints and leave a pain in the worker's thumb.

The solution that BMW came out with is to print 3D custom plastic thumbs depending on the workers hand size , they are printed individually by scanning each worker's hand in a mobile hand scanner. The orthotic is designed to be flexible when wearing and using it, it will fold and move like a normal thumb to make the assembly worker comfortable and enjoying the work without pain and fear of strains.

To make this product in alliance with the Department of Ergonomics at the Technical University of Munich, BMW used a combine of hard plastic and soft silicone called thermoplastic polyurethane.

A little improvement in the way of working, but a big positive results can occur specially with the positive feedback of BMW's assembly line workers that likes this idea and found it helpful to them.

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