The Full Scale Millennium Falcon Project
Yes, they mean to actually build it to scale, with detailed (and visually correct) interiors. What a piece of junk! Yeah, but …
Wrong Turn
I tend not to wade into the whole “Apple Screwed Up Maps” thing. For one thing, I don’t have a dog in …
Rollercoaster
I’ve always been fascinated by the grand civil engineering challenges. Our cities are still so much the products of centuries-old thinking. …
The Crowd-Sourced Virtual Assistant
Why make Siri-like interfaces smart, when people are still so much smarter? Premier was developed by MobileWorks, a crowdsourcing company, which is …
20/20
This is awesome progress on the best AR delivery approach we can currently conceive (short of neural implants, which are a very …
Carbomorph
Why do we need one kind of printer to make microchips and another kind to make plastic housings, with robots or …
Star Trek Comm Badges
There’s much to admire about the Star Trek technological imagination. There are some glaring problems too. Take the Comm Badge. Apart from turning …
Software Enables Avatar to Reproduce Our Emotion in Real Time – YouTube
Software Enables Avatar to Reproduce Our Emotion in Real Time – YouTube.
Neuroscience + VR + Real-Time Modeling
Neuroscience Research Technology – Dr. Eve Edelstein – YouTube.
Death to Poly
Polygons/triangles/quads are great for efficient low-level 2D/3D rendering — they’re butt simple graphics primitives that don’t require overly complex shaders or hierarchical …