Navteq Shows Off Enhanced 3D Models
February 15, 2010
[Showstoppers at MWC] Navteq is showing its Enhanced 3D City Models, a new 3D dataset that aims to supply a better representation of the road, but without becoming a distraction for the driver. Navteq says that the 3D city view is great for drivers to comprehend where things are, but things like trees and other things not related to navigation have been left out on purpose. While the demo was fluid, we wonder how it will look in actual products – it’s out of Navteq’s hand at that point as they just supply the notes. However, you can imagine that devices like onboard computers might be more energetic than phones in the future. Talking about phones, the dataset has levels of details (LOD) so whether a device does not have the essential resources (speed, bandwidth, memory) to display all the details, a simplified version of the geometry will be used. What do you prefer? 3D buildings or regular maps?
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Arduino controls Christmas lighting
December 3, 2009
Since it is the Yuletide season and all, how about some Internet-controlled Christmas lights and music for your home? that is what happened to that specific house, where 3,300 mini lights, a trio of spotlights, 1 LED rope, a quartet of LED branch trees and one reindeer dominate the exterior to manufacture that the least green house on the road with all the juice being used to look the part in that coming festive season.
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Pedal-powered Christmas tree
November 30, 2009
The city of Copenhagen in Denmark will go green that year where Christmas celebrations are concerned, and we're not talking about the color of its trees. In fact, their traditional Christmas tree set up at their City Hall Square will boast energy-efficient LED lights that are powered by humans, where 15 bicycles are available for anyone and everyone to pedal in order to capability all 700 LED bulbs dotted along the entire tree. Good way to keep warm in the freezing weather as well, eh?
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