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"I'm basically stone-mad, " she said, adding that she'd like to create more furniture and decorative objects with semiprecious gems.
And the first rumblings of a rights-management system for controlling the sharing of physical things are appearing: The IP-hoarding firm Intellectual Ventures received a patent in October for a 3-D printer feature that blocks the creation of verboten objects.
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The photos are stitched together to make textures and objects in a computer-generated 3-D environment.
" Without jockeys, he added, "You'd have a lot of 1, 200-pound objects running in every direction.
The process of 3-D printing uses computer-created digital models to create real-world objects -- everything from simple toys or jewelry to more complex objects with moving parts.
But in an interview with CNN, former TSA chief Kip Hawley said allowing sharp objects onto planes was such a good idea, he wished he'd done it himself.
CCDs would register objects in the range of 1 to 500 lux, above which they'd wash out.
We're also worried that a slate PC designed like this won't have a way of protecting the screen from the sharp poky objects that sometimes accidentally make their way into our bag -- we'd feel much more secure with some sort of scratchproof glass up front instead of this soft plastic finish.
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On 2-D screens, it's difficult to see where the robots are, relative to other deepwater objects, he says.
Marks imagines the potential for user-generated content when users can use the controllers to take a standard 3-D object like a sword, and grab, stretch and deform it on-screen to create new custom objects with new properties.
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