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It's sometimes easy to forget when you're watching an animated movie just how complex the underlying technology is. In this video, Steve Carell explains the 3D animation processes involved in taking an idea from the storyboard to the movie theater.

A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Jan De Cubber, is seen at the Belgian company Materialise.

Writings on art, culture, and media technology

In his keynote speech at the recent Augmented World Expo, sf author Bruce sterling shares his thoughts on augmented reality. [via Paul Di Filippo]

New technologies often go through a honeymoon phase where educators hold them up as the futuristic savior of learning.

Overv cloned Minecraft using x86 assembly. You can boot your computer into it. Crazy: "Starting in assembly right away would be a bit too insane, so I first wrote a reference implementation in C".

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2036 It was a curious thing to find, these engraved images of Egyptian dance and movement, seeming for all the world like motion shorthand, a sort of antiquarian Labanotation or kinetography.

Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, and other platforms are the jumping-off point for artists who blur the line between the virtual and the real

Yahoo, Microsoft, Google et al don't really offer 'free' email and it's naive to expect any form of customer service from them, writes John Naughton

For a moment, let’s not think about the @ symbol in the way we usually think of it, as the fulcrum of an email address, the navel connecting us to our Twitter handles, or even just the weird a hanging out above the 2 key.Let’s imagine it instead...

When we talk about design nowadays, the focus has been on the lures (or dangers) of flat design and skeumorphism; whether there should be (or really are any) intuitive interfaces; and wearable, maybe “disappearing” interfaces.

Pplware - Primeira impressora 3D portuguesa à venda a partir de Setembro | A primeira impressora 3D totalmente concebida e desenvolvida em Portugal estará à venda já no próximo mês de Setembro.Ocupando o mesmo espaço de uma comum impressora de...

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Interactive 3D cellular automata / Game...

When Kaiba Gionfriddo was born, his parents never expected to have to look on, helpless, as his windpipe collapsed daily and stopped him from breathing.