It’s not often that you see something <em>truly</em> different when it comes to camera design these days. The meaningful differences tend to show up in the more obscure details — more megapixels here, a better viewfinder there. But on the outside, most are variations on the same idea: a rectangle, some buttons, a screen, and a…

Backing data up to the cloud is pretty fast for most of us since we’re syncing small files, but it can be a hugely time-consuming process if you’re backing up something bigger, say, an entire data center. So Amazon has come up with a solution: essentially a big ugly box that holds 50TB of storage and…

A Disney Research team has developed technology that projects coloring book characters in 3D while you’re still working on coloring them. The process was detailed in a new paper called « Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings, » and it was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality on September 29th.…

Cannybots, une startup de l’université de Cambridge au Royaume-Uni, a lancé une campagne de financement participatif sur la plateforme Kickstarter afin de financer le développement de ses voitures de courses programmables. La startup s’était fixé un objectif de 40 000 $ (35 800 €), objectif qu’elle a atteint en moins de deux heures. Lancée le 29 septembre, la campagne…