The operation serves as the perfect demo platform, allowing IBM to show off its data-crunching capabilities to prospective clients it hosts at the tournament.

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The demo of the platform is a very clever aggregator of event content.

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The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson's got a version two Moverio headset in the works -- so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.

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Eric Schmidt from Google presented a demo of Ice Cream Sandwich, their newest Android platform, which will use facial recognition as security.

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Online play and account creation will not be available for the demo, but SolForge is expected to support cross platform accounts on release.

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We ran through the process a few more times, tweaking things along the way and running into new issues as we progressed -- like when the demo cube we were printing was knocked off the platform by the Stepstruder itself, or when the nozzle pressed down too hard on an object, which melted at the heat and stuck to the toolhead.

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Today, two days after Hooper uploaded the the demo on YouTube, developer Kyle Howells has released a working version of it as a free app on the Cydia platform (that works with jailbroken iOS devices).

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