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Issac Asimov foresaw 3D virtual meetings but gave them the awkward name “tridimensional personification.” While you could almost do this now with VR headsets and 3D cameras, it would be …read more Continue reading Holographic Cellphones Coming Thanks to AI
Historically, one of the nice things about Unix and Linux is that everything is a file, and files are just sequences of characters. Of course, modern practice is that everything …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Miller the Killer Makes CSV No Pest
By now, you’ve surely seen the AI tools that can chat with you or draw pictures from prompts. OpenAI now has Point-E, which takes text or an image and produces …read more Continue reading 3D Modelling in English with AI
Virtualizing computers is nothing new. However, Apple devices always present challenges. Just ask anyone who has built a Hackintosh. At least computer hardware is usually exposed, but on phones, the …read more Continue reading Virtualizing iPhoneOS 1.0
What’s better? Harmonic or cycloidal drive? We aren’t sure, but we know who to ask. [How To Mechatronics] 3D printed both kinds of gearboxes and ran them through several tests. You …read more Continue reading Harmonic vs Cycloidal Show Down
With Christmas and other end-of-year celebrations, there are gifts. The problem is that your loved ones don’t really know what to get you. Who can blame them? Do you want …read more Continue reading Your Own Santa? Thermal Camera Roundup
[Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and …read more Continue reading Another Magnetron Teardown
If you’ve ever owned a shortwave radio, you’ve probably listened at least a little to the BBC World Service. After all, they are a major broadcasting force, and with the …read more Continue reading BBC World Service Turns 90
If you missed the Chumby, we’re sorry. They were relatively inexpensive Linux appliances that acted as a clock, Internet radio, and feed reader. The company went belly up, although there …read more Continue reading Chumby Gets New Kernel… Soon
[Ben Conrad] received an interesting tool as a gift that purported to be a better mousetrap. It was a crescent wrench (made by the Crescent company, even) that didn’t have …read more Continue reading Sliding Wrench Leaves a Little to be Desired