Trends 2008: Will 3D-printing finally go mainstream?
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Everyone wants to be a designer. That's the value proposition of JuJups.com, a new online service claiming it will allow consumers to design their own personalized and customized 3D-content.
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Nanotube transistors coated with light-sensitive polymers could replace today's digital camera technology
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has spun off the CandyFab -- a 3-D printer that outputs edible granulated-sugar goodies. The newly independent project is looking for volunteers.
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.
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A new material allows researchers to write and erase 3-D images for displays.
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Imagine a world without Photoshop or PDF. Without digital fonts and desktop publishing and the ability to print graphics on a desktop printer. Imagine a world without Adobe.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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Discs offering high-definition images using blue lasers likely will rule the market starting in 2005. By Jonathan Sidener. A pessimist might say that right about the time the last person on the planet buys
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Electronic textiles have applications far beyond cool shirts.
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This yearâs big story is mainstream marketers embracing new technologies like podcasts, video-on-demand, blogs, social networking and video sharing.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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The Gartner-sponsored ITXpo symposium in France sets itself to identify long-term technology trends that are altering sectors like travel, marketing and investing. More web-enabled mobile devices and a smarter internet are key players.
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The BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could start to become big in 2008
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WYSIWYG is dead; long live WYSIWYM - What You See Is What You Mean!    Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration.  WYSIWYG seemed like a great idea last century ;-).  With all the latest display and print technology, one could craft a document on screen and see it how it would be printed.  The WYSIWYG paradigm has become so entrenched in UI design it's almost taken for granted by users and developers.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe Systems has upgraded its Adobe Acrobat 3D software for incorporating 3D CAD models in PDF files, adding the ability to mark up the images with product manufacturing information such as dimensions and tolerances. The update also allows the exporting of such data from the PDF file into formats, such as STEP and IGES, used by manufacturing tools. The 3D capabilities, first added to Acrobat in February 2006, can be used by designers to share information and visualizations with colleagues and customers who lack 3D design software installed on their machines. However, the mark-up and export features in the latest version won't work with existing versions of the company's free PDF (Portable Document Format) reader software: users will have to wait until the release of Adobe Reader 8.1, planned next month, for that. Adobe's attempt to further integrate Acrobat into the flow of 3D design information around the enterprise mirrors broader moves in the CAD (computer-aided design) or PLM (product lifecycle management) industry to make 3D models accessible to a wider range of workers. French software developerÂ Dassault SystÃ¨mes began working with MicrosoftÂ in November 2004 to integrate its 3D design tools Catia and SolidWorks with Microsoft's Office applications. In February, the companies demonstrated how Microsoft's Sharepoint Server and Dassault SystÃ¨mes' Catia V5 could be integrated as an Office Business Application. In the proof-of-concept system developed for an aircraft manufacturer, workers were able to rapidly access a 3D model of a malfunctioning product, identify the faulty component, and with a few mouse-clicks order spares for their customer, all from within Microsoft Office, the companies said. Meanwhile UGS, now part of Siemens, announced plans last November to use Microsoft Office running on Windows Vista as a front end for visualizing 3D data from its Teamcenter PLM software, enabling designers to exchange 3D models and manufacturing information with more of their colleagues. The companies have worked together since 2005 on integrating other aspects of Teamcenter and Office. Acrobat 3D can convert 3D design data from these companies, and others such as Autodesk, into PDF files, or embed 3D graphics into Word, Excel or PowerPoint files and convert those into PDF files. Adobe Acrobat 3D 8 is now available in English, French or German, while a Japanese version will go on sale in June. The software will sell for around $995, with upgrades from earlier versions from $295, Adobe said. Â
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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New communications technology could spawn futuristic products. Could your purse tell you to bring an umbrella?