My intuition was right. The free Unity engine release was just the beginning of a new trend in the world of game engines as Epic has now released the equivalent of Unreal Engine 3 without the source code.
The world is changin’, and I’m sure this trend will continue. I can even see some sort of [...]
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I suppose the news-du-jour the last couple days is the new Google OS:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
Okay, cool. [...]
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If I remember right, a few months ago these guys had nothing much more than a video on YouTube, but since then they've productized their technology to create CamSpace. It's very cool stuff that has a lot of potential to improve the man-machine interface. Think Minority Report on the cheap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0srY37kkMw.
They have a beta out [...]
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I'm a proud Vista user and have raved about it to my friends and colleagues, yet it's amazed me to hear some of the responses I get when I say I use Vista. I don't mean good responses, either.
Yet even when I get a negative response about Vista, it turns out most people haven't checked it out [...]
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Intel's announcement of Larrabee the other day is certainly something to watch out for in the future. Of course, Intel has had other fantastic announcements in the past only for them to flop – no pun intended.
So now I'm curious what the other industry players are going to counter with, if anything. Larrabee technology probably [...]
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Some food for thought from WALL-E director Andrew Stanton:
Life is nothing but imperfection and the computer likes perfection, so we spent probably 90% of our time putting in all of the imperfections, whether it’s in the design of something or just the unconscious stuff. How the camera lens works in [a real] housing is never perfect, [...]
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Embedding non-image data inside an image isn’t a new trick, but some reddit commenters are finding that data for a Spore creature is uniquely embedded in the .PNG file that can be downloaded from the creature’s Sporepedia entry.
While some commenters originally discovered data embedded in the alpha channel of the image, they now believe the data [...]
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This is too cool. I just came across Livescribe, a new platform with a pen that knows what you wrote and records audio at the time you wrote it.
Take notes in class and can't read your handwriting? Livescribe can play back the audio at the precise time of your messy handwriting. Want to communicate [...]
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