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The Nintendo 3DS has been out for a couple days now (in japan) and the folks over at [tech on] were nice enough to do a teardown. Besides all the regular teardown goodies you can also get a good look at the 3DS' 3D screen with a microscope. Turns out its a parallax barrier display which means that there are slits on top of the LED array to create a 3D effect without the use of special glasses. … [Read more...]
If you've been keeping up with our featured stories this year you'll remember the post about using your own eyelids as 3D shutter glasses. Throngs of commenters called this one as fake and they were right. But we still enjoyed the experience... it's more fun to be trolled when the trolls are skilled and idea is original. The perpetrators have released a follow-up video that shows how it was done. … [Read more...]
A landmark in home 3d printing was set when [Dr. Ulrich Schwanitz] sent a DMCA takedown notice to Thingiverse.com on users [artur83] and [chylld's] takes on his Penrose triangle model. ([chylld's] take is pictured above) While the takedown itself is highly debatable, we do think it's cool that home 3d printing has come far enough to begin infringing on the copyrights of objects themselves. Right … [Read more...]
Custom displays are a lot of fun to look at, but this one is something we'd expect to see at a trade show and not on someone's kitchen table. [Taha Bintahir] built a 3D volumetric display and is showing it off in the image above using a 3DS file of the Superman logo exported from Autodesk. In the video after the break you can see that the display is a transparent pyramid which allows a viewer to … [Read more...]
[Jonathan Post] has a way to watch 3D video without wearing shutter glasses but it might be kind of a hard product to break into the market. As you can see above, a pair of electrodes are stuck on a viewer's eyelids, using electricity to alternately close each eye. The video after the break shows a demonstration of this technology. Obviously a camera can't capture the image that the viewer sees, … [Read more...]
[ProfHankD] came up with a pretty easy way to take 3D photos using a single lens. He's making Anaglyph images which use color filtering glasses to produce stereoscopic 3D effects. We've seen stereoscopic imaging hacks that use two cameras or a clever combination of mirrors, but this one uses a special filter and post-processing. [ProfHankD] drew up a template that can be used to properly align two … [Read more...]
[Alex] wrote in to let us know about this Kinect controlled LED wall that was whipped up at the Tetalab hackerspace in Toulouse, France. The wall, which was built earlier in the year, uses some MAX7313 LED intensity controlling shift registers. Each gets its own board and controls the intensity of sixteen different red LEDs. They're embedded in the wall module and covered with ping-pong balls as … [Read more...]
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