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‘future’

You Will Be a Product Development DJ with This Table

06 Aug, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH
3D Human CAD Models

Actually, who cares about product development at this point. You’ll be the DJ, up in the front of your office as people tear off their blazers and patent leather loafers.

DJ Pablo Martin has launched a new MIDI multitouch controller called Emulator. The multitouch screen you’ll see is called Token and developed by Yöyen Munchausen out of Chile. Emulator is created to work on Windows7 and the best capacitive touch screen you can find. After that, it’s all up to you, your fly hat and and a dope mix to make all the party people say “yooooo!!!”

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The Lenovo Dual Screen Laptop. How Would You Use It?

23 Dec, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

dual-screen-laptopI’m telling ya, you wake up one morning and screens are just sliding out all over the place. Soon they’ll be yelling, ‘touch me!’, ‘no, touch me!’ – but for now look what Lenovo is sliding out to the masses January 5th at CES.

The Lenovo W700ds. A laptop with a slide-out secondary screen. Magnificent, don’t ya think? Kinda malignant tumor looking, but with the specs this thing has, you could run a little 3D modeling, a little video editing and more. Check it out.
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3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment

18 Nov, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

john-underkoffler-3d-futureThere is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux.

He is now the chief scientist and part of the team working on the g-speak ‘spatial operating environment’ from oblong industries. Here’s the details and video of how you may be working in the future.

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3D Multi-Touch Interface. Makes Poeple Dizzy, Throw-up.

13 Oct, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

3d multi-touch interfaceWow, 3D and multi-touch. Who woulda thought of that. It’s like putting peanut butter on bread. What’s interesting about this is that it’s being used in public to get some collaboration going on with residents in Helsinki.

CityWall is a large multi-touch display… which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The new interface launched in October 2008 also allows working with 3D objects, which enables multiple content and multiple timelines.

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Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes.

02 Oct, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

flying ninjas love 3d tactile force feedbackCome in out of the large open spaces, where you risk inevitable attacks from throngs of flying ninjas, and have a look at the near possibility of how we will be interfacing with virtual objects in the future.

3D space is a pretty big area to be manipulating like a clump of old clay, but you whack that space down to a defined volume within the tightly wound wavelengths of a friendly frequency and suddenly, you’re moving junk around in 3D space with your hand. Check this out.

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Oh, That’s My Fat Multi-Touch Modular Display… In HD Dude.

26 Sep, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

multi-touch for 3D cad possibilitiesYes that’s my monochrome body standing there, moving objects around on a very mobile, very modular and yeah, very cool multi-touch display.

It’s the newest in new future technology form none other than MultiTouch, the company. Moving stuff around on a screen with your fingers isn’t new, but theirs is the first completely modular, multi-touch HD LCD display unit and it’s about to slam the potential down on your peaceful afternoon.

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Google Makes the Future of 3D CAD… Lively

10 Jul, 2008 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'

3D online maps are so yesterday, and so is the news of Google’s new web-based 3D Virtual World, but after looking into it more, I had to let all of you interested in 3D and CAD know what the possibilities could be.

You may know about the popular Virtual World SecondLife. It’s a full-featured World with the ability to do about anything you want to, but living in your own Virtual World can leave you a little… disconnected, which is exactly what Google has changed with Lively.

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Cool 3D: Creating the Modern City

10 Jun, 2008 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'

If you look over the edge of your coffee cup you’ll notice everything is going 3D. There’s more news about 3D maps, 3D TV’s and 3D games than ever before.

Then I see this article from the January 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix about a 17,000 sq. ft. model of what modern day (1980) New York would look like.

“This model took 5 months to complete…built in an old blimp hanger…[with] the tallest tower of which is 40 feet high”

77 years later…
The $200,000 and 200 technical experts it took to build that plaster and glass modern version can be done at a fraction of the cost in a full 3D environment.

There’s sites like Everyscape that map out the cities, models of Modern/Futuristic 3D cities you can view with Google SketchUp and illustrated3D maps of Shanghai, but the most impressive I’ve seen is ScreamPoint’s 3D New York city. See a video after the break. What could be next?
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The Future Of Laptop Screens. Replacements?

26 Mar, 2008 by Josh Mings in TECH

wall-of-monitors.jpgThere’s an interesting segment in technology that really has the largest direct effect on how we work and how teenagers spend 20+hours of their week. The Screen. That amazing peripheral you’re gazing into right now to which we’ve come to view the entire world through… until it goes black or your laptop is yanked off the table by a toddler.

From the ready availability of laptop screens it seems as if this happens to quite a few of them. Without a doubt, in the near future, we’ll put the isolated workstation aside for the ultra-portable laptops that have the same capabilities. I’ve developed a lot of interest in the displays over the past few years because of the advances in technology with thinner laptops like the Sony Vaio or Macbook Air, flexible OLED screens and of course all the multi-touch stuff that has come out.

Then, the prices of LCD’s drop off so much because of competition and increased manufacturing, Best Buy stop carrying the tubes, and I wonder if I can just buy a whole palette of replacement screens to cover the wallpaper I have yet to take down in the bathroom. How sweet would that be?… How expensive would that be? And then replacing them along with the lightbulbs when they go out?

On top of that, there’s the business side where you could invest in the companies producing laptops or in the manufacturers pumping out the screens. To use the California gold rush analogy: It wasn’t the miners who got rich; it was the people who sold the picks and shovels. Who has the next best shovel?

The technology is certainly changing. More than anything though, I’m just glad I don’t have a huge CRT sitting on my desk anymore.

There’s Cold Soup in My Technology: Two Sides of Yesterday’s Future Tech

25 Mar, 2008 by Josh Mings in NEWS

fresh-cold-soup.jpgIt’s odd how time beats things into submission and then also how soup gets cold so fast. And when I say “time” I mean those geeky and mildly disturbed types that actually live on cold soup while they create new apps and innovations from their basement. Yeah, and it’s even more odd to see what some people thought years ago about the future those guys bring about and then how it actually turned out.

How you live and work now probably doesn’t even phase you. Talking with people instantly. hello? That is insane. I bet your ‘musicbox’ doesn’t have any wires and you can send your ‘Polaroids’ instantly through space. suuuuure.

I imagine there will always be two opinions about the futuristic future (R.I.P. Arthur C. Clark.) One pessimistic, one optimistic. I’ll take whichever one sounds cooler, laugh at the other and see what happens. However, if you look at two version from the years gone by, it’s kinda obvious which route technology took.
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