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If you’ve ever done any work in 3D, or had to describe a 3D concept to someone, you might have noticed that it’s not that simple. It’s unadorned to reckon, and work, in stipulations of left/right/up/down, but throw in that third dimension and all of a sudden things get complex. This is especially right because [...]
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Google TV hasn’t just so skyrocketed to popularity the way Android did after life introduced to the public, but maybe it’s just a matter of someone building a really excellent device that really shows off the OS. LG thinks their new sets do just that, and they’re excitedly showing off their new Google TV models at [...]
When we reckon in this area technological progress we generally assume things improve over time — they will get smaller, lighter, more efficient, and more precise. That’s right, but when it comes to privacy and the sharing of data, more precision is not always a excellent thing. Fully understanding the conflict between sharing and accurate data, such [...]
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By the side of with 462 other people, I backed a Kickstarter project earlier this year. The open hardware project sold balloon mapping kits to tinkerers like myself, and cost $ 85 for a wrap that built-in all but the camera and the helium. I finally got an opportunity to give the kit a chance, and this article is [...]
Two MIT students, Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver, have submitted their first project to the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. Their promise is to produce the ultimate DIY starter kit. The MaKey MaKey is a unadorned control board that requires no soldering, no brainwashing, and no breadboarding. It’s a printed circuit board that hooks up via a [...]
Once upon a time when I was really bored, I would play with the most basic PC app ever: MS Paint. That’s right: eclectic combinations of geometric shapes and various colors were combined to make the crudest drawings known to man. If I really had any creative interest in drawing, that’s when I would have [...]
A Penn State grad student has made a real-life working version of the infamous player-killing turrets from the hit game Portal as his final project for graduation. I would say that after watching the record, any professor that doesn’t give this guy a Masters degree needs to be the first target of this incredible creation. Using [...]
It’s quite likely that you’ve never heard of Kylo, but the huge-screen browser made by Hillcrest Labs has been providing a fantastic living room surfing experience for more than two years. Now, the companionship has announced that they’re open sourcing Kylo under the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0). Going open is a logical go by [...]
In a world where mobile technology permeates nearly every corner of our culture, there have been many attempts to make novel interaction with our devices and to add value to the experience they offer. Armed with smartphones and tablet devices, consumers are always looking for a new way to cooperate with technology but have been [...]
Part of the beauty of Android is that its open nature allows non-Google developers to make its engine run on other operating systems. RIM introduced it to BlackBerry PlayBook owners in PlayBook OS 2.0, and now it looks like OpenMobile’s ACL (app compatibility layer) will bring the same functionality to Tizen and Meego devices. The [...]