Lego Boxes Get Augmented Reality Too
As we’ve mentioned many times recently, augmented reality is one of the more popular technologies recently, and now even Lego boxes are getting the augmented reality treatment. The boxes were created by the Danish toy company and augmented reality experts Metaio and can interface with kiosks in Lego stores. Just hold up the box and [...]
VLogic TDM-150W 3D OLED HDTV
VLogic has rolled out its first 3D OLED HDTV model for the masses, where it is known as the TDM-150W. that 15″ looker relies on a similar panel as the LG 15EL9500, so from that inference you know that the TDM-150W can hit WXGA (1,366 x 768) resolution with a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. No notion [...]
Impress Flexible Interactive Display
Here’s a rather interesting interactive display, dubbed Impress. The impress sports an Arduino based processor fitted to control sensors placed amidst pieces of foam on the surface, so you can prod and press on the surface to get different results, which will be reflected via the overhead projector. One of the possible uses for such [...]
Print Your Own iPhone Dock
Would you like to print your own iPhone docking station? Well, that’s what Will Langford did with his desktop MakerBot CNC, he created his own iPhone charging dock. After creating a 3D model on his computer, he printed out thin layers of plastic stacked on top of each other, which thereupon snaps onto a block [...]
Software Turns Webcam Into 3D Scanner
Those of you who want something cool to do with your webcam should really try out ProFORMA, which stands for Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition. The software was written by a team from the branch of Engineering at Cambridge University in England and will turn your bog standard webcam into a 3D scanner. All [...]