Home Brew Surface PC

Maximum PC didn't like the idea of paying $12,000 for a Microsoft Surface. So what did they do? They made their own multitouch table PC for a fraction of the price.

Utilizing an array of infrared LEDs around the table, the guts of a PS3 Eye camera, a projector and some acrylic for the multitouch setup—along with a homemade wood cabinet and an old PC they had lying around (Core 2 Duo, 2 gigabytes RAM)—they fashioned together a multitouch beast for $350 that more or less mimics the surface experience.

Thanks to Gizmodo

Drawdio

Great fun. At a pretty early stage but I could have fun with this for hours!
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Sony unveils World's biggest zoetrope for new TV Ad

Bouncy ball, exploding paint and one massive red bunny, some off the jaw dropping Ads to come from Sony in the last few years, and here's the next one... The worlds biggest zoetrope.

Check the video out here

Lichtfaktor’s Lightprinter

This is the first test of the new “lightprinter” made for Lichtfaktor.

Created it using the Arduino Board (www.arduino.cc), there are 40 LEDs which can be controlled with a software called Processing (www.processing.org).

Cool work.

[Via visionlabz.com]

Foam-infused Impress DIS.PLAY encourages touching

DIS.PLAY. Worth a look but I think the 3D modeling is the only really exciting thing about it.

Quake Live has 113,000 visitors in first 6hrs

According to their Twitter Quake Live have had 113,000 visitors in it's first 6hrs, I'm sure it'll be in its millions soon.

Geek out at lunch and have a play.

Geotags for iPhone is a good start

Geotags is a free map-based application for the iPhone. Its purpose is to keep a geographic diary of sorts, letting you mark maps with tagged information you'll want to explore again.

You can geotag your car so you can find it again, or a favorite hunting location, or a cave. I tested the app by recording some favorite spots in a nearby state park that were good photographic locations.

It's a bit like Places in iPhoto, but it is portable. You can add photos to geotags, or an audio clip (2 minutes max recording time for each clip) that describes it, and of course some written notes.

Once you have built up a database of tags, it can all be exported to Google Earth for sharing with friends, or just to use yourself.

Thanks to TUAW for the above!