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Updated: 2011-08-31 15:34:00
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You may have seen that Layar recently released Layar Vision as a beta for Android. What’s more, if you’re the creative type then you have the opportunity to win a share of $55,000. Layar if ...
A new digital pen with real ink can record a drawing on paper and instantly convert it to vector graphics.
From sexting to talking while driving, there are several dangers associated to your child owning a cell phone. Here are the top five cell phone safety tips to help keep your children protected from outside threats.
When Google released Google Goggles a year or so back I’m sure it caught many of the incumbent AR browser providers off guard. Goggles in case you don’t know is an image recognition application that ...
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If you love all animals please skip this article.
Snypercat has been working on a way to hunt farm rats at night. There is no place for rats on a farm, they spread disease eat the food for your animals and will get you shut down if you plan on selling what you grow or raise. [...]
On an expedition to the mountains of Indonesia, scientists have made a frightening discovery: a gigantic new species of wasp with jaws bigger than its own front legs.
Smartphones and point-and-shoot cameras are great for capturing life's greatest moments. Is a funeral one of them?
Two chatbots attempt to converse with hilariously odd results.
Here are some suggestions on what we can do to both prevent cyberbullying from happening and to stop it when it does.
While it will only affect a small percentage of the Canadian population, this week marks the end of analog television transmission. Here's what you need to know, in plain English, to ensure you’re ready for the switch to digital.
Malte Ahlers from Germany sent in this great Microsoft Kinect controlled Delta Robot (translated to English). We have seen quite a few Kinect hacks recently but this one represents something that interfaces very well with an external device like we have seen in the past with quite a few Wiimote Hacks.
“I built a delta robot [...]
The LM35 Temperature Sensor is a versatile and inexpensive sensor that could be useful in many projects such as a PWM Fan Controller or this LCD Thermometer project. In this case a ATMega8 reads the analog value and updates the LCD to show the current temperature. The code is provided so you can build from [...]
Annie (Wei) Dai from Cornell University sent in this Vowel Voice Decoder System she did for the ECE 4760 Class.
“The audio input is sampled through a microphone/amplifier circuit and analyzed in real time using the Mega644 MCU. The user can record and analyze his/her speech using both hardware buttons and custom [...]
Our friend Robert Oschler is running a Kickstarter for his new Robodance 5 - Telepresence Robotics for the Disabled project. Check it out and support it if you can.
“What you are funding is the Pro version, which has additional exciting features and also has benefits for the physically challenged. For the first time [...]
We saw a project earlier this month that worked like an Ambilight system but this open source Light-Pack USB Ambient Lighting System seems to have much better effects. And since it’s open source you can get all of the info you need to make your own. I can’t wait till there is a system that [...]
Chris from Pyroelectro demonstrates some Animatronic Mouth concepts to bring your next robot to life. I would like to have this animatronic face tied to my computer and raise an eyebrow when I have an email and raise both when there are more than 10 unread emails.
” In this tutorial I will show you [...]
We have seen Plasma Speakers here before. They won’t replace your everyday speakers but they are sure cool. What’s better than reading about an interesting project? Building it! Instead of scrounging all the parts for a project a kit makes things real easy to duplicate and that is exactly what this is about. Matthew Chapman [...]
Halloween is right around the corner. If you are looking for something that can be whipped together quickly and scare the pants off the kids that will be terrorizing the streets, look no further than these DIY Halloween LED Blinking Eyes by Pete Mills. The microcontroller code is available here.
“I connected the LED pairs to [...]
Last year Samsung ran an augmented reality campaign to help consumers see how their range of flat screen TVs would look on their living room wall. Sony have jumped aboard the AR band wagon and ...
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It only seems like yesterday we had our very own Augmented Planet 2011 event in London. And lets not forget ARE 2011 or AR Summit.
If you missed those events or perhaps you didn’t get enough ...
If you missed out on recent AR events, AR Summit, ARE2011 or our very own Augmented Planet 2011 but you still have the taste for seeing some exciting demos and mixing with the leaders in ...
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Firstly I know that summer has come and almost gone leaving us well into August so I’m a little ashamed to be talking about an Easter augmented reality application. The truth is my inbox is ...
The trouble with mobile augmented reality games that use the camera feed for the background is the camera usage is entirely superficial. If you’re fighting aliens, watching them appear from the TV or in front ...
It seems like only yesterday that augmented reality gaming consisted of games that simply enable the phones camera to provide an interesting backdrop. Thanks to tools from companies like String and Qualcomm (and of course ...
: : ir a principal Ir a lateral Augmented Times Welcoming our Augmented Future Home Posts RSS Comments RSS Edit rouli at 1:09 PM Osterhout's Amazing HUD : Dreamware or Vaporware A few months ago Ralph Osterhout had a chance to present his vision for the future of HUDs at the e.g . conference If you had to some his vision into one word it would be amazing . The list of features is endless , from night vision to high definition 3d display . Even more amazing , Osterhout claims that a militarized version of this HUD would be available this summer , and a consumer product will come sooner than what you may think Osterhout is far from a quack , but I'll believe it when I see it . In the meantime , if you consider yourself a fan of AR , you must watch the following talk and share what you think