Apr 21
Graphene may be the supermaterial to rule them all—but it turns out you can make it at home. In your kitchen blender. Here’s how.
Mar 04
Jerry’s Place is a project about nothing from programmer Greg Miller for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. And it is unlike any other. This one recreates Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment from Seinfeld with 3D models created in Blender for the Unity game engine.
Greg says:
After purchasing the Oculus rift I started imagining what my first project might be. I decided to pick a project that would gradually introduce me to Unity without being overly complex. I was not new to 3D modeling, however this would be my first project in Unity. I came up with the idea of recreating Jerry’s apartment, in it’s entirety for virtual reality.
Jerry’s Place is available for download for Windows and Mac OSX on the project’s website. Seinfeld fans are going to love spending some time with this one.
I wonder if Kramer ever bursts through the door.
[via Waxy via Laughing Squid]
Aug 31
The Game of Thrones opening credits are just begging to have someone build a real-world replica. Just imagine a wooden version of the keep at Winterfell as a model with moving pieces that you could buy. How awesome would that be? You could buy the buildings separately and put them all together.
Well, Max and Tijn Berends have made a wooden expandable castle shown in this video. Okay, not really. It’s not real. They made it look real by using Blender 3D to create a digital castle. It’s a neat trick.
Don’t get your hopes up that they will re-create the whole intro. This building took about three months to create by itself.
If you’d like to play with the model, animations and textures for yourself, you can grab the Blender 3D files here.
[via Kotaku via Nerd Approved]
Mar 20
Adobe’s ex-CTO Kevin Lynch announced his resignation yesterday to join the ranks of Apple, which is kind of awkward considering the following clip he was featured in a spoof of Discover Channel’s, Mythbusters.
The “Mythhackers” video was created to be shown at Adobe’s developer conference in 2009, back when we guess Mythbusters was considered a popular show. In the video, Lynch and Mythbusters-like crew explain they were able to get Flash to work on a number of devices except for two: an old rotary phone and the iPhone. This of course was designated to be a jab at Apple, who has always tried to keep Flash out of its iOS devices, instead suggesting developers create HTML5 websites.
The video then has Lynch and the host of the show attempting to installed Flash onto the iPhone by way of a number of forceful measures. An iPhone and CD-ROM that contains the most recent version of Flash are blended together, electrocuted, blown up, and finally steamrolled. We’re not sure how exactly Lynch became an Apple employee after doing so much damage to the iPhone, but this just makes us hopeful we can get a job anywhere.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Final Fantasy V To Arrive On The Japanese iTunes App Store By The End Of March, iOS 6.1.3 Released To Fix Passcode Security Vulnerability,
Mar 15
The Science Inside Your Blender
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You might think that your blender is just a glorified mixer—but you couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, your blender exploits some interesting scientific concepts to break down your food, and these slow-motion videos help explain how it works. More »
Dec 24
Mini TARDIS really is bigger on the inside, thanks to augmented reality (video)
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Once in a while we’d come across some cool DIY projects inspired by Doctor Who, the world’s longest-running sci-fi TV show, but nothing beats this little TARDIS that would actually make you gasp out the classic line: “It’s bigger on the inside!” Greg Kumparak, a former writer of sister site TechCrunch, initially built nothing more than just a convincing model of the iconic blue police box (with a functioning light at the top) by hand, but soon afterwards he wanted to somehow give it an interior as well.
By utilizing the Blender 3D creation suite (which was a first for Kumparak), Unity 3D engine and Qualcomm’s Vuforia AR SDK, the result is an Android app that renders the 3D interior atop the random wave-like pattern — visible once the door’s removed — on the TARDIS in real time (no pun intended). Once you’ve seen the demo video after the break, you’d probably agree that Kumparak’s only one sonic screwdriver away from becoming an honorary Time Lord. For more detail on how and why this project was put together, head over to Kumparak’s blog post.
Continue reading Mini TARDIS really is bigger on the inside, thanks to augmented reality (video)
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Via: TechCrunch
Source: Greg Kumparak
Oct 16
The iPhone 5 Faces Off Against The Samsung Galaxy S III In The Most Important Arena – The Blender
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It’s definitely on between Samsung and Apple, with the two are battling it out in consumer hearts, courts around the world, and in supply chain arrangements. But now, the company’s two flagship smartphones go head-to-head in that timeless venue, the blender. Blendtec, the blender company famous for pitting its home culinary equipment against valuable electronics, has just posted the video you see above, in which the Samsung Galaxy S III goes up against the iPhone 5 in a blend-off that can’t end well for either.
Sep 30
Tears of Steel is a crowd-funded short from the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, and was made using Blender, an open source 3D content creation suite. It’s also pretty awesome. More »
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