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Arena: Motion Capture for the Masses
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Budding 3D graphics and animation buffs, there’s a new reason to get excited this morning. A company called NaturalPoint has just announced a complete motion capture systems that only costs about $5,000. Traditional (if you can call them that) MoCap systems usually start around $30,000, and often much more. The… |
August 6th, 2007
Spinning LED Clock Uses Image Persistence to Tell Time
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By rapidly spinning a blade that contains an array of flashing LEDs, this wall clock tells time in a visually striking way. A thin LED arm, loaded with 33 LEDs spins at 30 revolutions per second to create the illusion of a complete image. When the blade is spinning at… |
June 23rd, 2007
Fan Displays Moving Images on Spinning Leds
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ThinkGeek is at it again. This time they’re offering up a fan which can load up animated GIF files from your computer and display them in full color on the blades of the fan. Inspired by those light-up LED spinner rims that might have turned up on Pimp My Ride, … |
June 6th, 2007
Dot Creator: Make Your Own Pixel Animations
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This electronic toy out of Japan lets you create your own pixel art animations. The Dot Creator from U-Mate has a small 21 x 21 pixel LCD grid on which you can draw your own animated art and then record frame by frame animations. It can store 3 animations of… |
April 3rd, 2007
Tokyoflash Says: Watch Out Jive Turkey!
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The latest funky watch to be released in the TokyoFlash PIMP series has the best name yet, the “Jive Turkey.” It’s a substantial stainless steel timepiece that combines modern technology with a retro feel. The Jive Turkey display features a refractive lens system that makes the green LEDs fade into… |
March 28th, 2007
Animated Pong T-Shirt for the Retro Gamer
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The gadget mavens over at Think Geek have revealed this new t-shirt that features an animation based on Atari’s gaming classic, Pong (although the t-shirt simply refers to it as “Table Tennis”, for obvious legal reasons.) |
March 12th, 2007
Classic Video Games Animated With Candles
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The folks over at Boing Boing dug up this fun little stop-motion video features a handful of arcade classics, brought to life through the magic of candle-mation (that is, animation done completely with tealight candles). Pac-man, Pong, Space Invaders and Tetris all make an appearance, along with a nice little… |
January 28th, 2007
LED 3d Image Cubes Can Now be Yours
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These 3D cubes by James Clar & Associates display 3-dimensional images across an array of 1000 LEDs arranged in a grid structure. Previously, the designs were only shown at galleries and exhibitions such as Wired’s NextFest. Now you can purchase these beautifully designed, handmade artworks for your own home or… |
October 7th, 2006
