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| Violin Made of Lasers Actually Sounds Lovely | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 PM | PSFK |
| Technology lecturer Dylan Menzies doesn’t play the violin in the traditional sense. Instead he uses software and lasers to translate the positioning, speed and motion of a traditional wooden bow into music. His optical sensor-driven O-Bow is encased in copper with a groove for the bow.
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| Luvocracy: Pinterest for People Who Actually Want to Buy Stuff | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:45 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| People flock to Pinterest to collect and keep track of inspirations, whether they're recipes to cook, destinations to visit or clothes to wear. But there's a promising new social network with a similar model focused less on dreaming and more on shopping. San Francisco-based startup Luvocracy, which launched quietly this fall in beta, is based around the concept that we buy products more when they are recommended by others.
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| Activision Reveals Animated Human That Looks So Real, It's Uncanny | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:39 PM | Charlie White |
| Activision showed off the state of the art of real-time graphics on Wednesday, releasing this mind-boggling character demo. The character's skin, facial expressions and eyes look so real, it's uncanny. When you watch this video, see if you think this character has reached the other side of what's commonly called the "uncanny valley," a term first uttered by early robotics guru Masahiro Mori in 1970.
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| How 3D Printing Actually Works | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years. From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless.
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| Apple Patents Smart Pen | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:10 AM | PSFK |
| [Update: Mashable got the inside scoop on this patent and "Apple’s Smart Pen Patent Is Not What You Think"] While there has been lots of buzz over a potential Apple smartwatch, a new patent shows the company is also thinking about other kinds of portable computers. It reveals a computer embedded within a standard pen, which has a small LCD screen for displaying emails, texts, alerts, etc.
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