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faceapi: 3d head tracking with any webcam

filed under: computing | interactive

FaceAPI Head Tracking Software

Here’s some pretty cool news which could provide entirely new ways to interact with your computer or game console. This new technology will enable automated 3-dimensional tracking of heads and faces using a webcam along with some very special tracking software…

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posted: March 19th, 2008 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

typographic synthesizer makes fonts like music

filed under: design | interactive | strange and wonderful

Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer

This unconventional design tool provides a unique way to create new typefaces. Working somewhat like an analog music synthesizer, knobs and button pushes influence the shape of your font characters…

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posted: February 22nd, 2008 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

wiiminder:enhance your wii browser

filed under: computing | video games

The Wii’s Opera web browser is definitely better than, say, the Playstation 3’s browser by a long shot, but there are still some things that are a bit less convenient than on a normal computer. The folks over at Warp Pipe Technologies have built a web-based service called Wiiminder that makes it a bit easier to navigate on the Wii…

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posted: February 19th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

xbox 360 hd dvd playback: over 4.7 million lines of code

filed under: video games

Xbox 360 HD DVD

In this post by Shaheen Gandhi, an engineer on the Xbox 360 Platform Team, a massive amount of code went into the HD DVD playback system for the Xbox 360.
As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7 million lines of code went into the HD DVD software…

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posted: November 5th, 2006 stumble it! 14 comments author: technabob

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