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iPhone Illusions with this funny walking Alien App!

by max on August 24th, 2008
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Here’s a slight illusionary work with the iPhone, a funny walking Alien App. Created by David O’Reilly, iHologram combines anamorphosis and the iPhone’s gyroscopes to achieve this awesome visual magic trick. Anamorphosis is a way to draw things distorted so, while watched at a certain angle, they pop out of the 2D surface as if they were real. David’s applicatio ...

Improved Motion Sensing for Wii Controller with Wii MotionPlus!

by max on July 14th, 2008
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Nintendo just announced their new improved motion sensing module called Wii MotionPlus that you can plug into an existing Wii controller. Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wii MotionPlus accessory attaches t ...

Wii HACK - Industrial Robot with Wiimote!

by max on June 19th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember the industrial robot that could swing that big ass arm? Well, here’s another one but is more sensitive for precise control. This is a small presentation of a university project I have worked on for the last 6 months. Using a real-time system the orientation of the Wii Remote is polled ...

Is Samsung i900 an iPhone Killer?

by max on June 5th, 2008
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Is Samsung i900 an iPhone Killer? I think not with a Windows Mobile and no flash support. An orientation sensor is built into the i900. When rotated, it does this fancy transition whereby the display shrinks and expands back to fill the screen in a different orientation. The 240 x 400 display does seem a little weird, but is not unheard of–we’ve seen it in the ASUS M930 ...

Solar Shade Veil for Schools!

by max on May 26th, 2008
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Here’s a great idea for schools. It’s a solar shade veil that would generate power for the schools while providing shade for the students and teachers. Why didn’t we think of this earlier like 10 years ago? An Australian government funded initiative, the VEIL solar-shade is a future possibility for the integration of solar-energy harvesting technologies into a form t ...