Robot Wallpaper Download
In honor of our Robots issue, illustrator Brian McLaughlin designed a rad robot wallpaper for you to download.
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HoloDesk: More Augmented Reality Pr0n
Microsoft Research is up to their usual cleverness: HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world […]
Tom Deininger’s Landscapes from Junk
. Tom Deininger makes unbelievable landscape assemblages from junk…although, it looks like there’s some pretty good stuff in there! [via Nag on the lake]
How-To: Specimen Jars
Our friends at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come up with some awesome specimen jars that will add the perfect touch of creepy to your Halloween table. They are even (generally speaking) edible, though folks’ stomachs might be turned a little too much to want to eat them. See what secret ingredients create these realistic […]
Access Android Sensors from a Scratch Program
Users of the Scratch visual programming language can now add an Android handset to their arsenal of plug and play tools. Using the Scratch Sensor app on your handset will get you access to the accelerometer and compass data over the Scratch networking protocol, turning the device into a readily available data acquisition module.
Skill Builder: Figure Sculpting Tutorials
Julian Khor, a Senior Lead Designer at Ubisoft Singapore, has a series of inspiring videos (99 in all) on sculpting superheroes, action figures, and modeling the human form in general (virtual 3D modeling tuts, too). The above video is part one of a 35-part series on sculpting a Hulk-y “action figure.”
Waffle Croque-Madame
A croque-monsieur is a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich. Croquer is the French verb “to crunch,” and monsier is … “sir.” Slap a poached or fried egg on top and it becomes a croque-madame. Well, if you’re feeling incredibly indulgent, you can test out this variant on the croque-madame that calls for pressing store-bought croissant dough in […]
