Articles tagged "3d"

The Wiki Weapons Project Is Stalled, But Not Dead

Let’s be honest. The Wiki Weapons Project is a bad idea, and has been from the start. In brief, a bunch of guys down in Texas want to design plans for a deadly gun whose plans can be downloaded and then 3D-printed by anyone with access to the right e…

The Screen of the Future Is Your Living Room

Imagine a video game that's not just confined to your TV screen or the six different ways you can flip your wrist to move the controller. Microsoft gave us a taste of the possibilities of a more immersive gaming experience with Kinect, a smart slab o…

Even in 3D, Google's New Map is Underwhelming

They look like cut-scenes from the next installment of Grand Theft Auto. It’s not. This is Google Earth, reimagined in glorious real-time 3D, available soon on your mobile phone. It’s Google at its finest, another earnest step in the company’s quest…

Websites Transformed Into 3D Sculptures

Visually, the internet can be a real yawn. Websites like the one you are staring at right now are projected as a flat plane of text and images on your flat monitor. Any sense of depth you perceive is merely a trick of design, fashioned to elicit the

3D Movies Are Bad For You, Says Science

Not just in the _OMG, Avatar was such a piece of shit waste-of-money_ sense, or the _Videodrome_ psychosexual sense, but in an actual real life hurts-your-eyes sense. That's probably not a surprise so much, nor should it be a surprise that researche…

Ones and Zeros: Large Scale Wi-Fi, Small Penises

_Could be a good time to leave the funeral home business_ h3. ONE: Scientists predict that living forever will be a reality in 25 years ("NewsDaily":http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7632id-us-ageing-cure/) h3. Zero: casey anthony trial is no…

Ones and Zeros: Weiner Came Clean, Photos Suggest

_There are no more Weiner jokes. (For today.)_ h3. ZERO: Weiner re-_members_ everything, comes clean on lewd Twitter photos, one of which is NSFW ("Yahoo!":http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110607/pl_afp/uspoliticsinternetoffbeatsex) …