A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Yes that’s right, if you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same color as the background and therefore completely invisible to both visual and automated inspection. While I carried the metal case empty, by one with mal-intent, it could easily have been filled with razor blades, explosives, or one of …
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Couple of years ago I had a bike stolen and in the process of looking for a new bike I had some friends convince me that I should build a bike. They walked me through it online and I fell in love with the process, I fell in love with acquiring parts, researching parts. 718 …
Holoflector is a unique, interactive augmented-reality mirror. Graphics are superimposed correctly on your own reflection to enable a novel augmented-reality experience. Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012, Holoflector leverages the combined abilities of Kinect and Windows Phone to infer the position of your phone and render graphics that seem to hover above it. (via teusje)
Users can casually open up the See-Through 3D Desktop and Type on the keyboard or use a trackpad as in traditional 2D operating environment. Windows or files are perceived to be placed in a 3D space between a screen and the input plane. The user can lift up his hands to reach the displayed windows …
Wimpy wanted to let visually impaired people know that they offered braille menus in all of their restaurants. To spread the word we built braille burgers that blind people could actually read. With the help of skilled chefs we took sesame seeds and meticulously placed them on burger buns so that the seeds formed braille.