Manchester New Technology Institute embraces motion capture

3D ~ ABC

Cinema 4D R11.5 Essential Training covers all the important steps to get up
and running with this easy-to-use 3D application. Designer and author Ian
Robinson covers the essentials of 3D design, including modeling, animation,
and integration with other design tools. Ian explores how to build objects
with Cinema 4D's basic primitives, and how to use light, shadow, and texture
to give depth to a scene. He shows the proper use of the powerful animation
tools, including MoGraph, to push 3D designs to the limit. Finally, Ian covers
how to combine Cinema 4D with other applications like After Effects and Motion.

3DVIA Scenes

3DVIA Scenes has been recently mentioned as another Virtual World, but we must state that is not exactly the case. There are some major differences between other virtual worlds and 3DVIA Scenes

Edmodo

Edmodo creating free online tools for the education community. The first one is a communications tool for Schools, Teachers, Students, and parents for use in classroom.

gesture cube

Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to help transform navigating a device into a magical intuitive experience. The underlying GestIC® technology detects your hand´s approach and movements – your favorite apps and media all at a wave of your hand.

Apple Tablet

According to Shawn Wu from Kaufman Bros, the Apple Tablet release might be delayed from March, as it was reported by The Wall Street Journal, up to June due to minor battery life and durability issues. Although, Wu reassured that the unveiling of the device is still on schedule for next week.

In a note to investors, Shawn Wu wrote:

“This tablet product has been described to us as a hybrid between an iPhone/ipod touch and a mac but in terms of software and components, it appears closer to the former, meaning it is most likely ARM based. From our understanding, it is not intended to replace a Mac but be somewhat of a ’super’ iPod touch where video, gaming, Web browsing, e-books[,] and the ability to run multiple apps would be enhanced with the much larger screen.”

Wu went on to echo some of the rumors that we have previously heard, such as those that state the tablet is expected to retail around $1,000 and to have a screen size between 10 and 11 inches. If this delay rumor turns out to be true, the tablet would be following the same patter as the original iPhone released in 2007, which was announced/unveiled in January and released publicly six months afterward.

At this point, it’s only a matter of about a week for all the thousands of rumors and speculations about the Apple Tablet to be officially debunked. So be patient folks.

Pentop Computer

The Fly is an oversized, cosmetically customizable pen that is intended to assist children, especially those aged 7 - 14, with schoolwork. There are several bundled and add-on applications available for the pen, including a notepad, calculator, language and writing assistant, and educational games; many of these require the use of a small cartridge that can be inserted into a port built into the rear of the pen. The Fly only works on its own proprietary paper, which is lightly printed with a pattern of dots to provide positioning information to the pen via a tiny infrared camera. The ink tip itself can be retracted into the body of the pen when no physical notes are desired.
The pen uses digital paper and pattern decoding technology developed by Anoto to track where the user writes on the page. It uses Vision Objects' MyScript character recognition technology to read what's been written, and can read aloud nearly any word in U.S. English. One notable thing is that the Fly uses only capital letters. To start the main menu of the base pen, the user writes "M" and circles it. After recognizing the circled "M", the pen switches to "menu mode". There are several different circle-letter codes for activating different applications, these codes are officially known as "Fly-Cons."

Once an application is activated, the user uses the pen to draw on the paper to interact with the application. In much of the applications, users are told what to draw, rather than having the freedom to design their own.

The Pentop Computer – interactive pen that talks to you as you write

Avatar Toy

Toy-maker Mattel is releasing a range of action figures that incorporate augmented reality technology, based on characters from the Avatar blockbuster movie hitting our screens around Christmas. The toys, to be launched in October, ‘come alive’ on your home computer when scanned on a webcam. Each action figure in the range has a unique 3-D web tag (i-TAG) which, when scanned, reveals special content onscreen. The animated 3-D models will show off “engaging, evading or defending moves”, says Mattel. And when two i-TAGs from the same Battle Pack are scanned together, the 3-D characters will interact on-screen

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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Taxis without drivers

Taxis without drivers

At London's Heathrow Airport, for example, appeared a taxi, which copes and without human management. Taxi drivers - this dual phenomenon. On the one hand, with sometimes interesting talk on the road, on the other, sometimes they are too intrusive or do not know the road. That's Heathrow Airport in London, apparently, having weighed all the pros and cons of taxi drivers as such, have decided to renounce them. Of course, these four-seater taxis do not drive you arrived at Heathrow passengers anywhere in the city. They will act exclusively in the territory of the airport, as the link between terminals, parking and other facilities, airport complex. The passenger can only sit in a taxi, to indicate on the touch screen where it wants to move, and the taxi itself is taking him there and, of course, without tipping. Money terminal, standing in the taxi, take off with your card exactly as much money as you need, and a penny more.

New Mobile Phone From Google