Festo – Airic’s_arm



Festo - Airic

Airic’s_arm is inspired by nature. Based on a combination of mechatronics and the biological model of a human being, it opens up new possibilities for future automated movement processes.
The Airic’s_arm is a robotic arm fitted with artificial bones and muscles. The bone structure, consisting of the human bones such as ulna and radius, metacarpal bone [...]


Adobe Flash player 10.1 for mobile devices



Adobe Flash player 10.1 for mobile devices

Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever [...]


Commodore 64 for iPhone



Commodore 64 for iPhone

Commodore64 is back!
Now available for Iphone, it comes with 8 games for free:

Dragons Den
Le Mans
Jupiter Lander
Arctic Shipwreck
Jack Attack
International Soccer
International Basketball
International Tennis.

KEY FEATURES:

Original Commodore 64 game graphics
Original SID sound
Auto-save, to continue exactly where you left off
Realistic joystick
Portrait and Landscape play
Vertical and Fullscreen gaming (auto rotate for iPod users)
and much [...]


PICOL – Pictorial Communication Language



PICOL - Pictorial Communication Language

PICOL stands for PIctorial COmmunication Language and is a project to find a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication. PICOL is free to use and open to alter.
Right now there is total number of 102 Icons in the icon library.
All icons can be downloaded as ZIP-Files on blog.picol.org/downloads/icons
icons are [...]


James Cameron “Avatar”



James Cameron "Avatar"

Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na’vi, engage [...]


Papervision3.0 tests



Papervision3.0 tests

Some test links of the new (currently in development) papervision3D version 3.0

Dynamic BSP test – here
Improved BSP test – here
Local / global rotation – here

The github address for the continuing development of Papervision3D – here
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Waiting for Papervision3D 3.0



Waiting for Papervision3D 3.0

Papervision3D “3.0″ version of the engine will be under heavy development over the coming months, rewritten for flash player 10.

For those who are technically qualified to watching the engine grow on github (*Updated the link to http://github.com/Papervision3D/Papervision3D *).
more about:

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from the papervision3d blog click here


Big Dog robot



Big Dog robot

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system.

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries [...]


PETMAN prototype



PETMAN prototype

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing [...]


Augmented Reality



Augmented Reality

There are two commonly accepted definitions of Augmented Reality today. One was given by Ronald Azuma in 1997. Azuma’s definition says that Augmented Reality

combines real and virtual
is interactive in real time
is registered in 3D

Additionally Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino defined Milgram’s Reality-Virtuality Continuum in 1994. They describe a continuum that spans from the real environment [...]