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Mcor Technologies and Staples are teaming up to provide 3D printing services via the online Staples Office Center service. This announcement comes from Mcor, the company behind the Iris 3D printer. Unlike just about every other 3D printer, the Iris doesn't squirt plastic onto a bed or glue powder together - it makes its models out of sheets of paper. You probably won't be ordering working steam … [Read more...]
Instead of walking his kid to the bus stop like he used to, [Paul Wallich] lets this quadcopter watch his son so he doesn't have to. It is quite literally an automated system for tracking children -- how wild is that? The idea came to him when wishing there was a way to stay inside the house during the winter months while still making sure his kid got to the bus stop okay. [Paul] picked up a … [Read more...]
[Liz] over at the Raspberry Pi foundation took a trip over to the manufacturing facility in Wales and found some of the very first Model A Raspi samples. They're just samples, but this means we should be seeing a few Model A Raspberry Pis pop up on Element 14 sometime very soon. As the lower-cost model of the Raspberry Pi, the Model A lacks a few features of the more complete Model B. For … [Read more...]
[Tony] wanted to clean up his bedside table by getting rid of the cables used for charging his devices. He accomplished his goal by integrating an inductive charging station inside his furniture. He chose to go with a product called Powermat. The base station for the device includes two inductive charging areas. [Tony] started by using a router to make a pocket in the underside of this shelf. … [Read more...]
This installment of Retrotechtacular looks at a video lecture that is much more substantive than the usual fare. [Dr. J.N. Shive] was a researcher at Bell Labs at a time when just about every technological breakthrough was coming from that singular collection of minds. This video, called Similarities of Wave Behavior, was made to help bring students up to speed on the principles of waves. To … [Read more...]
Even with the added hardware that lamp still looks relatively normal. But its behavior is more than remarkable. The lamp interacts with people in an incredibly lifelike way. This is of course inspired by the lamp from Pixar's Luxo Jr. short film. But there's a little bit of most useless machine added just for fun. If you try to shut it off the lamp shade is used to flip that switch on the base … [Read more...]
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