Motion-Capture Tech: Designers Create Furniture in Thin Air
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The artists at a Swedish design firm experiment with "drawing" personalized furniture in a room space. The invisible lines are captured by a camera, computerized and the sketches are translated into 3-D digital files and materialized through Rapid Prototyping.
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Adobe's AIR allows applications to bridge the Web and desktop.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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A new product lets workers combine simple bits of software to create business tools.
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
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Wood paneling and chrome dominate one of two sample designs for a new style of Media Center PC, commissioned by Microsoft's eHome division from One & Co.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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A Swedish designer takes an American idea and reinvents it.
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The DVDirect VRD-MC3 stresses two extremely important attributes: simplicity and reproduction quality.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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Redmond, Wash.-based start-up specializes in building high-end PCs into deluxe handcrafted furniture.
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Design specialists dream up the unexpected to help Microsoft get a foothold in the living room.
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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When a small group crowds around a PC to work on a project, there&#039;s often considerable shuffling for a good view of the monitor and control of the mouse or keyboard.
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Life & style: Britain's first "Ikealand" opens to spread the off-the-shelf principle from furniture to entire houses