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Motorola’s high-end Atrix 4G Android smartphone swept the awards at CES 2011, where it was introduced, taking home media awards from CrunchGear, IGN, Laptop Magazine, Maximum PC, MSN, Notebooks.com, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science, as well as CNET’s prestigious Best of CES 2011 in the “Smartphones” category. At the time it was introduced, the Atrix was the most powerful smartphone on the market.
Gulp, the world’s largest stop-motion animation, was shot using a crane-mounted array of three Nokia N8 smartphones on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales by Sumo Science at Aardman. Capturing the record breaking 11,000 square foot set was a piece of cake for the N8’s 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
This IRONBUDS kickstarter from New Hampshirite Thomas Young is already funded, but it looks like you can still jump on board if you want a set for yourself.
The WIMM Wearable Platform from WIMM Labs is a 1-inch square Android-powered module packed with 160×160 pixels of transflective display, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, Accelerometer, magnetometer, vibrator, speaker, and up to 32GB of microSD storage. Its 667 MHz processor means that it can operate independent of a secondary paired device and is positioned as a “first screen” device, similar to the iPod Nano, LiveView, inPulse, and Metawatch.
One of the first ways amateur type designers learn to create a font is by piecing together shapes in a vector design program like Adobe Illustrator. When the glyphs look the way you want, you can drop the vectors into a program like Fontlab that manages kerning, point sizes, and so on, then outputting an […]
Reportedly, the equation above plots as the figure below, which is…familiar from somewhere. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
My personal fave from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is this shot from Shawn Thorsson of one of his fantastic green army men / garden gnome mash-up sculptures. Other highlights include a sweet macro shot of a 1/32 carbide end mill, some panel-pr0n, a multi-exposure trebuchet launch, and more!
