Martin Salazar is the Walt Disney Family Museum's in-house art conservator. Every item that comes through the museum - photographs and documents, animation cels and 3-D models, toys and jewelry and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Walt Disney Co. has been approved for a ...

Disney’s new AIREAL might provide a glimpse at an interesting and new user interface design: the capability to produce haptic (touch) sensation in midair. While this sort of technology seems to fit a ...

Having long been successful with "talkies," Disney has developed technology that could allow the creation of "feelies." While designed more for touchscreens than the silver screen, the REVEL system ...

We're still getting used to the immersive magic virtual reality offers, but a new experiment from Disney Research pushes the technology into another realm: interaction with real objects while in VR. A ...

What if every object in your life could talk? A door handle warns you when someone has attempted to enter without a key. A desk ticks off your appointments when you sit down. A rubber duckie quacks at ...

We apologize, this video has expired. A new type of 3-D printer created by Disney Research allows layers of soft fabric to be used instead of plastic or metal. The result is objects that are as soft ...

The Disney algorithm takes a solid, asymmetric object that should fall down in a second and optimizes its rotational dynamics. In practical terms, it works a bit like repositioning the wet duvet so ...