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Cambridge-based Augmented Reality specialists Optricks Media have just released their newest creation: AR! Pirates. It’s a swashbuckling shoot-em-up game for Symbian devices (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson) that uses a really unique marker-based mechanic: the coins in your pocket! In AR mode, three coins laid out in a triangle become a desert island, and the surface [...]
My Personal Blogging Ecosystem
Hello! Before we get down to business, here’s just a quick announcement: This weekend I launched a new WordPress plugin called Foursquare Map – any readers with your own blogs, please check it out and let me know how it goes! Another thing I did this week was to set up my own GTD system [...]
Are You Ready For Your Close Up, Miss Colada?
BevShots have discovered what you’d call a niche: they take your favourite alcoholic drink, crystallise a single droplet of it in an airtight container, photograph it at 1000x under a microscope, and then sell the resulting image on a printed canvas. And man, are these things selling! Since August last year BevShots estimate sales of [...]
Holy Hole in a Doughnut!
TV ain’t what it used to be, and I’ve found the evidence. It’s a video of the 109 utterances of Robin’s famous catchphrase, mashed-up and in sequence, as spoken by Burt Ward in the first series of television’s Batman in 1966. It’s the sort of thing I’d usually post on my Tumblr, but now we’re [...]
The Weird Inner World of the 3D Fractal
This post is about one of the really cool things that happens when maths I don’t understand and technologies I don’t understand get together to make something awesome. Let us begin: A fractal is a conceptual object that reveals further details about its shape ad infinitum, upon ever-closer inspection of it’s fabric. Think of the [...]
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