January 13, 2014
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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By: Chip Bobbert II
A pair of new 3D printers has arrived at the Media Lab today as well as a digital scanner. Over the coming semester we will be exploring the use of commodity 3D printing in various educational applications. More posts will...
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December 30, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
For those that don't know about FFmpeg, it's a project containing a command line suite of tools that allow someone to convert quite literally any piece of media to any other piece of media. It includes an entire library of...
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December 23, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
Despite being limited to what I can do because of no 3G hot spot, I was able to record and share my first video. Navigating around the glasses is "almost" intuitive. I was able...
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By: Stephen Toback
Our test pair of Google Glass arrived today. Tried to download the MyGlass for iOS and thought it was strange that it didn’t appear in the App Store on our iPad 2. It did...
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December 17, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
PrimeSense, the company that developed the technology (and holds the patents) behind the XBOX Kinect was purchased by Apple three weeks ago. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. Upfront, this isn't an Apple vs Microsoft...
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