Thursday, 17 May 2012

There I Fixed It: If You Thought Stepping on Legos Was Fatal…

There I Fixed It: If You Thought Stepping on Legos Was Fatal…:



… then you’ve obviously never been shot by one…
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Lunchtime Deal: 25% Off iTunes At Target

Lunchtime Deal: 25% Off iTunes At Target:
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It’s iTunes special time again, although that’s one of those things that comes around quite often indeed. Today’s venue for cheap iTunes deals is Target, although it’s a slightly odd one. You’ll get 25 per cent off the price of a second card when buying one. Not quite as snappy a deal as we’ve seen before, but wait a while and another will no doubt be a ...

Thursday, 10 May 2012

This realistic Portal turret is the reason you should stay in school

This realistic Portal turret is the reason you should stay in school:

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This shooting, talking, laser-pointing Portal turret made by a Penn State University Advanced Mechatronics student is pretty impressive, even without its final casing. The turret tracks the position of a specific pink shirt and asks innocently after potential victims if it goes without stimulation for too long, eventually locking on and shooting foam darts at the rosy intruder.

We say it's pretty impressive in the sense that we want a dozen and we're astounded at the level of detail and care put into such a project, but at first we read the title too quickly and thought this guy had created working portals, which would be way cooler. The lesson here: However awesome your final university project may be, the things we make up in our heads will forever be more awesome. Sorry, dude.

We'll still take 12 of those turrets. Thanks.
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Sunday, 6 May 2012

Mind-Blowing Disney Sensor Brings Gesture-Based Computing To Everyday Objects

Mind-Blowing Disney Sensor Brings Gesture-Based Computing To Everyday Objects:
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Disney Research (which presumably has lots of mice) created a new sensing system called Touché that can sense a wide variety of human hand and body interactions. And not just touchscreens, but in all sorts of objects — even liquids.
It’s pretty amazing. Most capacitive sensing (like your smartphone or trackpad) only operates on one frequency. Touché sweeps over a range of ...