Tuesday, July 23, 2013

AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos

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AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos

At the American Museum of Natural History's two-week camp Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication, a group of teens learned the processes and tools used by paleontologists for studying dinosaur bones and digitally reconstructing them. And we got to tag along for some of it.

AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos

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Glasses.com for iPad: Test Glasses on Your Virtual Head Before You Buy

Source: http://gizmodo.com/glasses-com-for-ipad-test-glasses-on-your-virtual-head-872558168

Glasses.com for iPad: Test Glasses on Your Virtual Head Before You Buy

We've become a lazy, lazy people. If there's two things that really bring us together, it's an irrational demand for instant gratification and a desire to have as little face-to-face interaction as is humanly possible. Now on the one hand, this is probably the beginning of society's grand demise. But on the other, doing things sucks! So we might as well give in to fate and enjoy sweet, sweet laziness while we can. Which, thanks to glasses.com's new app, now included eyewear shopping.

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Powerful New MIT Computer System Can Make the Internet 3x Faster

Source: http://gizmodo.com/powerful-new-mit-computer-system-can-make-the-internet-872658937

Powerful New MIT Computer System Can Make the Internet 3x Faster

The Transmission Control Protocol is like a crossing guard for the internet, regulating traffic to keep things flowing. Sure, engineers are constantly working to improve it, but it's manmade, so there's always room for human error. But researchers at MIT have created a computer system that could fix all that—and make the internet two to three times faster.

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Disney's New Algorithm Turns Any Photo Into a 3D Wonderland

Source: http://gizmodo.com/disneys-new-algorithm-turns-any-photo-into-a-3d-wonder-872804707

Disney Research, a partnership between the mouse-eared entertainment juggernaut and universities around the globe, is on a virtual reality roll. Its latest development, an algorithm that turns 2D photographs into 3D landscapes, can transform a regular photo into a video game-style environment, using consumer-grade computer hardware.

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Nokia's Lumia 625: A 4.7-Inch Windows Phone on the Cheap

Source: http://gizmodo.com/nokias-lumia-625-a-4-7-inch-windows-phone-on-the-chea-878218682

Nokia's Lumia 625: A 4.7-Inch Windows Phone on the CheapNokia’s follow up to the mid-range-to-budget Lumia 620 has gone bigger than ever, taking Windows Phone to an Android-like 4.7-inches. Shame about the resolution.

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