Kinect robots from microsoft

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I was researching some robot options for The Cool Stuff Collective and I bumped into the Microsoft Robotics at home (US based) competition. It would appear there is now a MS Robotics software dev kit (Developer Studio 4). However the really interesting part is that there is a reference design for some hardware that is based [...]

Is that me hiding? I don’t think so! more Google Minus

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I feel sorry for anyone with an unusual “given” name, one of the Beckhams, Geldoffs or other rock stars. They just wont be able to hang out on google+ because their “name” doesn’t fit the “pattern”.
So after thinking I was ok as Ian/epredator Hughes on google+ turns out I am not.
I, like William Shatner, got suspended [...]

Reaching into music with Melodyne

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A few years ago I remember we saw a demo of an upcoming product that let you dive directly into the individual notes of an already produced piece of music. i.e. you went from the produced target not the original source. Roo posted it at the time
It was great to bump into the website for [...]

Lego AR in the wild

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It was fitting that the last day of the holiday wandering around Disney Downtown we ended up in the Lego Innovations store. For some reason I nearly missed seeing the Augmented Reality kiosk that lets you see whats inside your lego box.

I have seen this in videos before, but it was good to have a go [...]

New nerdcore anthem- New Dorks

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This is great, and props to @GemmaCocker for tweeting and blogging it
New Dork – [...]

Hmmm Upgrades. Second Life Viewer 2 appearing

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A video is already up on youtube of Second Life Viewer 2

The next few days as we all get to download and use it we will see how the changes and improvements affect us all. It should be good, as its been a long time coming. Lets [...]

Performance bell curves don’t work!

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Towards the end of each year and start of the next many people in “serious businesses’” seem to have to suffer the torture that is the annual performance review. Not having to deal with this ridiculous set of processes this year has not kept me away from it. I still see the unfortunate side effects that [...]

The Next Decade?

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It may seem a bit of a long shot to look forward to the next 10 years but what the heck!
1. Keep Walking. Obviously the big one to consider is what used to be called mobile. Everything is mobile now. We already have relatively easy access to 3g and wi-fi to allowed our technology to be [...]

Evolver Avatar on the Iphone via Unity3d

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It has been a busy week for travel and meetings this week. However in the gaps between pieces of work I have been exploring what I can do quickly and simply with the Iphone 3GS. I had been looking at the various 3d toolkits, doing model import by hand.
In the end it struck me as obvious [...]