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Haptic Technology Merges with 3D Modelling for Protoypes - 0 views

  • Industrial design modelling, used to make prototypes of home appliances or mock-ups of car parts, could soon make the leap from the world of plaster, plastic and sticky tape into the digital domain thanks to an augmented reality design system developed in Europe. function google_ad_request_done(google_ads) { if (google_ads.length < 1 ) return; document.write("< google_ads.length; ++i) { document.write(" google_ad_client = "pub-8430344808469242"; google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.azom.com/images/spacer.gif"; google_ad_channel = "8293186506"; google_ad_output = "js"; google_max_num_ads = 6; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_color_line = "330000"; google_feedback = 'on'; The system, developed by a team of researchers from six EU countries, merges touch-sensitive haptic technology with 3D digital modelling and computer-aided design (CAD) to allow professional designers to feel and shape their creations physically and virtually. Implemented commercially, the system promises to save companies time and money, raise designers' productivity and improve the quality of new products.
  • "Haptics is far from a mature technology, and this project was one of the first to build a haptic system for industrial designers," Bordegoni notes. The multimodal and multisensory SATIN system consists of two FCS-HapticMASTER devices, in essence robotic arms more commonly used for remote welding or dental surgery, which position and rotate a robotic spline, an electronic version of the flexible strip of material, typically wood or metal, long used by designers to draw curves. Fitted with actuators and sensors, the spline automatically twists and bends to the shape of a digital representation of the product uploaded by the designer into the system.
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    @Frank---this looks COOOL!!!
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Bu.tt - the URL shortener that kicks it. - 2 views

shared by Ellie K on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
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    *.tt is the top-level domain of Trindiad Tobago, as assigned by ICANN.
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The Future of Marketing: Idiocracy Meets Times Square on Steroids - Adrants - 3 views

  • The Future of Marketing: Idiocracy Meets Times Square on Steroids


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    Want to know what the not too distant future will look like? Watch this video. It's sort of like Idiocracy meets Times Square on steroids.

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    this is frightening.
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    yes, maybe this is a bit too much... the cool bossanova music in the background seems out of place.
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Evri Ties the Knot with Twine - Twine CEO Comments and Analysis « Nova Spivac... - 0 views

  • Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis March 11th, 2010 &nbsp;Share Today I am pleased to announce that my company, Radar Networks, and its flagship product, Twine, have been acquired by Evri. TechCrunch broke the story here. This acquisition consolidates the two leading providers of semantic discovery and search. It is also the culmination of my long and challenging venture to pioneer the adoption of the consumer Semantic Web.
  • Twine was well-received by the press and early-adopter users.
  • The Twine team is joining Evri to continue our work there. Twine.com’s data and users are safe and sound and will be transitioned into the Evri.com service over time. This process will be done in a manner that protects privacy and data, and is minimally disruptive. I have great faith in the team at Evri and believe they will handle this with great care and respect for the Twine community.
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  • At the time of beta launch and for almost six months after, Twine was still very much a work in progress. Fortunately our users and the press were fairly forgiving as we worked through evolving the GUI and feature set from what was initially just slightly better than an alpha site to the highly refined and graphical UI we have today. During these early days of Twine.com we were fortunate to have a devoted user-base and this became a thriving community of power-users who really helped us to refine the product and develop great content within it.
  • These losses meant we could no longer create compelling content or to manage the Twine community. So we put Twine.com on auto-pilot and let the traffic fall off. While painful to watch, this at least had the benefit of reducing the pressure to scale the system and support it under load, giving us time to focus all our energy on getting T2 finished and raising more funds.
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    no direct mentions, but at least some recongition
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