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Some of you might know my wife Maggie is about to have a baby. Looks like it’s about that time. Forgive the absence of enlightening posts for, ya know, at least a few hours.
UPDATE: Woo! a Baby girl!
Name: Isabella Grace
Born: Thursday, February 21st, 9:31 am
Weight: 8 lbs 3.5 oz
Length: 20.5 in
Head: 13.5″
Wait till you wrap your head around this… or rather warp this around your head.
Emotiv Systems is preparing to launch the Emotiv Epoc. A wireless device that senses brain activity and allows you to interact with an interface.
“The $299 headset has a gyroscope to detect movement and has wireless capabilities to communicate with a USB dongle plugged into a computer.
The Emotiv said the headset could detects more than 30 different expressions, emotions and actions.”
The headset is being developed initially for gaming consoles (of course) but theres not much imagination needed to see how this could influence interaction online and in the realm of 3D CAD. To bring back a painful piece of technology, it’s like the circa 1989 Power Glove for your head. I’m sure it works much better… and so stylish too.
Source BBC Tech News
Who makes a commercial with creepy little monochromatic people anyway? The SolidWorks parent company Dassault Systemes does. And while it has the feel of that movie where the guy brings that little clay man to life, it’s very cool.
Dassault Systemes Future of 3D Commercial from Solidsmack on Vimeo.
They showed this at SolidWorks World 2008 and I wanted to hunt it down and post it so could share the nightmares of these tiny people crawling up your bed and kicking your eyeballs because they couldn’t get a bike in the door and had to move from their comfortable seats. I suppose it’s better than a swarm of them coming out of the cornfields with tiny, little monochromatic sickles. *shiver*
Yesterday I speculated that Microsoft could be bringing out some new 3D visualization technology.
Thanks to Pete Yodis. He got to the TechCrunch article first revealing Microsoft Will Announce the WorldWide Telescope On February 27. Cat out of Bag… or is it?
The reason I kinda wonder is that this was in the news last year and it’s been known that Microsoft is researching mapping the sky. Granted, you add a slick interface where you’re moving through star systems in a 3D like environment. That would be almost worthy a few tears. And if it were real-time? that would be simply amazing.
I’m sure the preview will show up TED.com in the near future.
Yes, that’s right. Ugly, rabid monkeys with three toes and high tariffs.
Ponoko, the design-it, make-it, sell-it web site has quelled the fears of their users and completely slashed the prices for shipping around the entire known world.
If you’re in the US, shipping prices from New Zealand can be downright frightening. Actually, shipping prices anywhere from there or to there would typically be high. But now, depending on what material you use to make your product, the shipping cost is much lower. Here’s an example from the blog post.
To send a P1 anywhere in the USA was $51.36 it’s NOW $14.60
That’s a huge savings. Ponoko was attractive before, but I was apprehensive about shipping cost. This makes it even more attractive and I’m ready to try out some ideas I’ve had.
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