First of all, I’m all for getting rid of legs. They’re way too convenient. As movies like Return to Oz will forever attest (cue creepy video clip), wheels are much more efficient. Self-balancing wheels… even more so.
Product development company Inventist is bringing on the self-balancing, single wheel revolución. They’re doing it all with a wee wheel you stick up under your meat kickers. The Solowheel. Let’s have a look.
You, and whatever you like to feed extruded bits of colored grain to, now have even more incentive to pour the tasty bits and a gallon of milk directly down your gullet. Nestle and Dassualt are teaming up to bring out a new augmented reality (AR) game based on the new computer-animated film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.
The Rio 3D Augmented Reality game forces you to prematurely cut up your cereal box to access the AR marker which is then used a a controller for the game. All good fun. However, it hints at bigger plans for Dassault and their 3DVIA brand.
I know you have dreams. Not the one where you’re falling and wake up floating, then realize you’re just falling the wrong way and then you wake up. Not that one.
The dream I speak of is the one where you go to New York City, set up a giant platform at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and showcase a single furniture piece… rotating… in a spotlight… and free popcorn. Shapeways could make that dream come true. For the first time, they are holding a design contest to get your design in front of the thousands at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Here’s how to make it happen.
You may have just shaken the dust of an old set of gloves, slipped into a memory of days gone by. Days spent hitting your brother after hogging all the Nintendo playing action with your new Power Glove. “IT’S MY TURN!” No, not until I beat this dragon… WITH MY FIST!! That’s right. You were the glove…
And the glove isn’t going away. Take for instance the possibilities it possesses for manipulating 3D geometry with your hands. UNLIMITED. Sebastian Pirch is just the guy to prove it too. WIth nothing more than a Kinect, an Arduino and the technological knowhow to tie it into PureData via pduino, he was able to create a very interesting method of modeling in completely open space with nothing but his hands… his hands covered in warm, woolen 3D nabbin’ geometry mittens.
When you think of modeling, you may think of features used when creating 3D geometry… or you may think of your days as a elbow model for L.L. Bean. You sexy beast. Either way, there’s a process and a need for both. In the case of 3D modeling, the process is dependent on what you need and often, how fast you need it.
Siemens has a unique approach to direct modeling as it relates to the history of features in both Solid Edge and NX. How do these programs stand out? And even more important, how do they approach the intracacies of modeling with and without a history of features? Kris Kasprzak, Director of Marketing at Siemens UGS PLM Software, had some things to say when faced with such a daunting question.