January 16, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
This works for new or existing accounts. You just need to install their new iOS app and login. After logging in on the new iOS app, your storage limit will then be upgraded to 50GB. It looks like this deal...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
OIT-ITS recently purchased a Google Chromecast to test with, which unfortunately, we can't use on Duke's network. It turns out that the Google Chromecast requires multicast to be enabled on the network it is connected to. This is NOT something...
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By: Chip Bobbert II
https://vimeo.com/84259861 Jack showed me a cool product called Leap Motion the other day. I took a few minutes to play with it and can definitely see a wide range of applications. What is it? Basically it's a sensor system that...
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January 15, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
Along with our 3D printers we received 3D scanner and have had a a few opportunities to play with it and learned quite a bit. At first take our scans weren't really successful and I was actually a little bit...
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January 13, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
3D research is still going string in the Media Lab. Today we reviewed a really cool application from from Autodesk called 123D Catch. The concept of the application is simple, basically you use your cameras photos to take panoramic shots...
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By: Stephen Toback
Since Tyler (shown here) and I were on the AV Committee for TechExpo this year, I wasn't able to present. In between show duties, I was able to be a walking "poster" to discuss Google Glass. I had borrowed Duke...
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January 7, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
We've had the better part of a week with the 3D printers. Our printing efforts have been conservative. Much time has been spent reading documentation and using our printing material smartly (our order of filament hasn't come in yet). But...
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January 3, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
OIT-ITS has re-rescheduled a tour of the new NC State James B. Hunt Jr. Library on January 27th, from 10am to 12pm. This new state of the art library is definitely worth seeing in person. More information about the library...
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January 2, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
We spent some time with the new 3D Printers today and managed to create a few small trinkets from the stock files they sent with. Our first impressions are very positive. It took a while to get everything unboxed, setup...
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By: Stephen Toback
Thanks to Christine Vucinich for posting about this. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-glass-surgeons-new-best-friend-what-one-surgeon-is-saying-about-tech/ It's hard to think of a way we live that Google hasn't touched. And now, you can add surgery to the list. It all starts with Google Glass, which lets an...
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