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.
Among those ideas, as I described on this post a while back, was getting real world objects, from the Jodrell Bank telescope, to the Isle of Wight ferry, to Tower Bridge, to tweet.
We are extending the connectivity of the Net to a much wider world wide web that includes the manifold physical objects of the world, letting them speak back to software that makes sense of what those objects tell us.
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Cuming Museum, which was founded in 1906 with the Cuming family's private collection, has artefacts from all over the world, including objects from Roman London, Chinese ornaments and African tribal costumes.
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The text message you receive from your rosebush, in this case, is really an invitation to a smarter world, a world where ordinary objects are transformed and enlightened so they can serve you better.
Some organizations have not fully bought into digital yet, much less a world of interconnected smart objects.
Looking at the screen is like peering through a window into a world where characters and objects have true depth.
Indeed, the story that he fell in love with someone he never met, even in this world of pixelated love objects, appears to be preposterous even to those of us digitalsexuals who are into virtual relationships.
According to Reviel Netz, a classicist at Stanford University who is working on the palimpsest, the original uncorrected diagrams suggest that Archimedes was more concerned with the mathematical arguments his geometry gave rise to than with the real-world behaviour of the objects he wrote about.
Our typical idea of historical consciousness of a world of cold, dead objects and linear time will not work here.
Once full of fuel for the British fleet, the former pump house is today full of exhibits and objects from both world wars, including many salvaged from the wrecks.
You'll never be able to exist within this marketplace without recognizing that paintings are perhaps the most expensive objects in the art world.
But so is verifying anyone's identity in a world where even three-dimensional objects like Stradivarius violins can easily be "printed", let alone copied en masse.
The artist makes her versions from salvaged precious metals that are twisted, pounded and interlocked with found objects from the natural world, looking like mutant effigies pulled from the well-appointed rubble of a millionaire's junkyard.
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Mr. Brichter, whose design aesthetic is inspired by information theorists like Edward Tufte, a proponent of minimizing extraneous information in graphic designs, says he thinks up new features for apps based on how people move objects in the real world.
That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.
His parents owned stores that sold sacred objects from all over the world, he said.
They engage actively in helping children learn to walk and talk and to explore their new world and manipulate their toys and other objects.
Dr Waibel said it would be a place that would teach robots about the objects that fill the human world and their relationships to each other.
Before the game is played, the basic interactions of objects and characters in the world are worked out and some possible ways of working through the story are prepared.
That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
The heavy dimension gives the world a steampunk-ish look and gives objects extra heft.
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By covering more and more objects and situations, we reinforce our world-leading position within automotive safety.
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No other game has created quite such a life-like game world as regards the movement of hair, breakable objects - anything and everything - and the sheer amount of eye-candy.
We need to do reconfigure everyday objects, and our lifestyles, as our world downsizes around us.
Cognitive scientists and child psychologists have determined that children develop a complex conceptual structure, a sort of mental taxonomy of the world around them, which they use to order and define objects when they see them.
At their core, these 3D printers are not unlike their 2D counterparts, offering a way to translate images on computer screens into real-world analogs -- only in this case they're objects you can hold in your hand.
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The museum's collection comprises more than 6, 300 objects including pre-historic tools, Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, books, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II, the 1950s and the present day.
Instead, our home is decorated with my costumes and props or objects we've collected during our many travels around the world.
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