Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/11/mtbiggie-is-a-diy-surface-for-the-masses/
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/11/panasonics-ag-3da1-camera-will-shoot-3d-video-robonaut-vlogs-o/
Pana sonic's AG-3DA1 camera will shoot 3D video, Robonaut vlogs on the International Space Station originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Zend, which has been working with Adobe since 2008, offers its own distribution of PHP, the popular open-source scripting language for Web applications, and sells software and support services around the language.
The Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP gives developers a single code base for applications for Android, Blackberry Tablet OS and iOS while sharing code from Web applications. Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP includes an integrated copy of Zend Studio 8, which allows developers to develop Flash based applications within a single environment. Specifically, the integrated software offers a single UI framework to create Flex and PHP projects for desktop and mobile and the ability to connect to PHP services and generate ActionScript value objects.
The combination of the two frameworks in one suite is powerful, says Zend CEO Andi Gutmans. Adobe says that more than 131 million smartphones are expected to have Flash Player installed by the end of the year. And PHP is the leading language for public facing web applications, says Gutmans.
It’s good to see Zend back on the mend, after a rough patch a few years ago.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5790662/these-are-the-first-three-adobe-photoshop-touch-apps
These are the first three Photoshop Touch apps coming from Adobe. They will be available sometime in May from the App Store and their names are Eazel, Color Lava and Nav. But if Photoshop Touch is not the Photoshop for iPad, what is it and how do these three apps work?
Adobe is updating Photoshop CS5 with a new architecture that will allow it to speak to iOS, Android and Blackberry tablets wirelessly.
Called Photoshop CS5 Extended, the free update has plugs that allow third-party applications to communicate directly with it in real time. These plugs will be publicly accessible through something called the Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit, meaning that any app developer would be able to integrate their applications with desktop Photoshop.
The possibilities of the Photoshop Touch SDK are truly endless. People would be able to use their iPad or Honeycomb tablet to do things like fully control Photoshop tools, from brushes to colors to layers. In effect, this transforms your favorite tablet into a control surface for your favorite image editing software, just like there are apps that could work a control surfaces for music and video editing software.
That's the case of the first of their new three apps: Adobe Nav for Photoshop CS5. Using Nav you can create a custom palette with 16 of your favorite tools, as well as use it to pick colors or zoom. It will also allow you to navigate up to 200 documents already opened in Photoshop CS5, access their information, allowing you to reorder them to suit your workflow, and even zoom into the documents at will. Think about this last feature as a virtual light box for your current open documents. Nav will also allow you to open any document from your iPad on your desktop Photoshop instantaneously.
That's precisely what Adobe has done with Color Lava and Eazel. Color Lava allows you to mix colors in a natural way, like a real paint palette. From the mixes you can create individual color swatches and also color themes. This app works connected to Photoshop in real time, but also on its own. I can imagine an industrial or interior designer using it anywhere to match colors or create color themes that can later be instantly synchronized with the desktop version of Photoshop.
The most exciting app of this pack, however, is Eazel. Their painting application for iPad works completely independently from their desktop version and it uses new technology to simulate paint media and do some really neat and very useful tricks:
• The first is their interface, which looks beautiful in its simplicity: Place five fingers on the screen and controls appear to change color, opacity or brush size.
• The other cool technology is the mixing of wet and dry paint for color blending, with an engine that allows paint to dry over time, just like in real life.
• But my favorite new tech comes with their Photoshop CS5 export process. When you send your paintings from Eazel to Photoshop CS5, you can select to render them at any resolution. In other words: You can re-create your painting and have it ready to print at any size you can imagine, with full detail and no pixelation whatsoever.
I'm a Sketchbook for iPad junkie, but after reading that, I'm sold (I hope Autodesk works CS5 integration on Sketchbook too). I'm specially happy to learn about the resolution-independent export, because it means that a future Photoshop for iPad may work in a similar way.
I can imagine taking my iPad and my DSLR on a trip, connecting to the iPad to quickly make modifications to RAW photos, compose shots or make HDR on the go using proxy images, and then re-rendering them on the desktop for print resolution (until the iPad has enough built-in memory to handle big DSLR images on its own, something that will happen eventually too).
I will be testing these apps for the next few days and post the review here when they are available in the Apple store, sometime in May. And hopefully, many others—including the full multi-layer digital darkroom shown at Photoshop World 2011—will come both from Adobe and third-party developers soon.
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790451/create-your-own-dvorak-keyboard
Instead of buying a new keyboard to try out this newer layout, why not just hack an old keyboard so that they keys use the Dvorak layout?
BiOzZ, an intrepid user over at the Hack a day forums, has disassembled an old Kensington keyboard, washed the parts, and then re-assembled it using the new key mappings.
Everything was relatively easy to change over, with the exception that some of the keys had backwards connections that required a 90 degree change to the orientation of the key. With a little correction using a label maker, they keys are now very usable.
The final step is telling your OS to use the Dvorak layout rather than the standard Qwerty layout that you are using right now.
Have you attempted to make the change to a Dvorak keyboard layout? Let us know how it went in the comments!
Qwerty to Dvorak Keyboard Conversion via Hack a day Forums
Source: http://io9.com/#!5790289/the-white-light-technology-that-could-make-holograms-awesome
They work with normal light and can produce full-colored 3D images — where the color stays the same no matter how you look at it.
This new technology works by hitting a thin metal film with three beams of white light, each from a different angle. Each beam excites a different color of light, which then passes through an RGB hologram, combining to form a full-color 3D image. The technique promises to more efficient, simpler, and more scalable than current color holograms.
Who's up for a nice game of dejarik?
Source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5790309/you-owe-mit-more-thanks-than-you-think-you-do/gallery/
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Yeah, right, Wi-Fi isn't even the new hotness anymore. Our computers have it, our phones have it—wireless is old hat, and the most super-convenient way to network. But ethernet remains a big, snaky part of the internet. And one of the men behind the ubiquitous cord? Robert Metcalf, class of '69.
Robert Noyce, who picked up his doctorate from MIT, and went on to both co-invent the microchip and found Intel. Not too shabby! So, the odds are fairly high that you've either used or are using something that (indirectly) sprang from this guy's cranium. His alleged earliest childhood memory is the agony of beating his father in ping pong, and having his mother comment, "Wasn't that nice of Daddy to let you win?" I guess that explains a lot about microchips, if you really think about it.
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Ol' TI, founded by MIT grad Cecil Howard Green, has had its fingers on almost every piece of electronic gut there is—lasers in missiles, digital signal processors in audio gear, processors in phones—but at the very least, you've probably held dear a TI-83+ at some point in your educational career. Unless you were one of those supernerds with a more advanced graphing calculator, in which case I hate you. But the things are still everywhere, synonymous with exam anxiety and covert in-class gaming.
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Yeah. Soup. Soup. Probably not what you associate with tech wizardry, but John Thompson Dorrance absorbed the chemical knowhow to turn mass-produced soup into an empire at MIT.
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Live in a city? Don't feel like owning a car? Maybe you use Zipcar! It's a neat convenience, and was co-spawned by MIT grad Robin Chase.
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It's not all as peaceful as graphing calculators and tomato soup, however—some MIT grads go on to make stuff that blows up other stuff, such as James Smith McDonnell. His firm is responsible for linchpins of American air power such as the F-15, the F-18, and the ever-popular Tomahawk missile. Kablooey!
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Okay, so he's not a thing or a company, but he's designed some of the most incredible and significant structures in history—the Louvre's pyramid, the East Wing of the National Gallery, and, controversially, the Hancock Tower in Boston. Where did I.M. Pei pick up his architectural prowess?—Hancock tower aside—you guessed it.
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Fancy yourself a suave military gaming tactician? Is prestige level 24 starting to bore you on Black Ops? DARPA wants to put your strategic savviness to real military use by integrating its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) configurations into the sub-hunting simulator game Dangerous Waters. Download and play the game, and your tactical prowess may just be implemented into ACTUV's prototype software.
DARPA's ACTUV program aims to develop new tools for anti-submarine warfare that include unmanned autonomous ocean-going vessels that can track quiet submarines hiding in the depths. But in order to figure out what tactics work (and don't work) for their ACTUV software, they need to test a variety of maneuvers and sub-hunting configurations in naval scenarios.
That's where the crowdsourcing comes in. At the end of each round, the software will ask if you want to send your game data to DARPA for analysis—and for possible use in the crafting of ACTUV's software brain, once it is developed. Corner the crafty AI sub commander, and your data could inform a future line of defense against threats from the deep.
Download the game from ACTUV here. [Armed with Science]
Madrigal recounts the adventures of Terrence Duffy, Alva Reynolds, and Fred Starr, three men who sought to use the motion of ocean waves to generate power via motion or air compression. Starr, in particular, played up the environmental perks of such technology all the way back in 1907:
Starr went on to declare that by December 1908, "Los Angeles will be a smokeless and sootless city, clean pure. It will be made so by all the power and heating plants being supplied with power and heat from the ocean waves by the Starr Wave Motor."
Obviously this didn't pan out so well, but it's kind of cool (or possibly demoralizing) that clean energy was a consideration even before global warming entered the international lexicon. For the full excerpt from Madrigal's book, be sure to check out [Wired].
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