Lytro's amazing "light field" camera tech has everyone from pro photogs to casual clickers abuzz. But the innovations now en route suggest that the company's best is yet to come.READ»
There’s no need for lenticular sheets, Avatar-themed polarized glasses, prisms, or red-blue anaglyph glasses to see the 3-D images in Theo Prins’s DIY stereoscopic paintings. Just go cross-eyed.READ»
Archaeologists are planning to use Microsoft's super-cheap Kinect to help plan progress and record data at a future dig in Jordan. If all goes as planned, the $150 piece of gaming tech could let them virtually walk around 3-D models of huge excavation sites.READ»
Robert Rodriguez was doing 3-D way before it was cool. Now he's testing out a whole crop of moviemaking experiments, including "Aroma-Scope" for his latest Spy Kids installment, and a remake of animated fantasy "Heavy Metal." READ»
Yes, 3-D light painting -- in which a flat glowing image is traced through the air to form a quasi-3D version captured in long-exposure photographs -- is an amazingly creative hack. But Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott have taken the ...READ»
Ever want to be a model? Then you'll love this new hack that combines 3-D imaging and a RepRap machine to turn you into...a model! It's clever, and hints at two powerful futures for tech.READ»
Used to be, if you wanted to make a detailed shape out of wood -- for a nice little fruit bowl, say -- you had to carve it by hand using a big chunk of timber, which is a.) time-consuming b.) expensive and c.) bad for the environment. ...READ»
Bldgblog’s Geoff Manaugh is up with a neat post on Indian-born British artist Gerry Judah, who throws building models onto canvas, then smashes them to smithereens, creating stark little cityscapes that look like a preview of the ...READ»
Eurostar, the high-speed train between London and mainland Europe, has unveiled a dynamic new branding scheme designed to capture its bursting ambitions as it barrels full-speed ahead toward dominating European rail.
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We're betting that the headline above will turn most people away and that's a crying shame, because today's infographic is stunning, beautiful, and incredibly moving. Only once in a blue moon do web-based infographics rise to this ...READ»
Nearly 33% of movie earnings are now generated from 3-D films. In 2010, six of the top 10 highest-grossing movies were shot in three dimensions. But the tech has not caught on as fast on TV as many thought it would. So the guy with the legal middle name of Captain 3-D can't rest yet. READ»
Google's taken another step toward the Matrix, wrapped in white ribbons for the Royal Wedding, in a tricked out map of London with super-real 3-D representations of buildings and parks along the procession route.READ»
A month ago, Google's Android operating system became the world's top OS for smartphones. How did that happen? Well, now you can see for yourself -- courtesy of a stunning 3D data visualization of Android phone activations geolocated ...READ»
