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New Backpack Creates Instant 3D Maps

New Backpack Creates Instant 3D Maps

Students at UC Berkley built an exciting prototype device that can be used to instantly capture the 3D model of interiors and texture them using photographs. This backpack uses cameras and lasers as well as positional sensors that tell the backpack where it is located, since GPS technology indoors is not reliable.
Software then renders the [...]

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Spray That Works Upside Down

Spray That Works Upside Down

While space programs are constantly fighting gravity in an attempt to explore our universe, Michael Pritchard fought gravity his own way, with the ANYWAY spray.
What was the technological hold that causes the frustration of millions of housekeepers that wish to use sprays outside down? A spray titled to an angle at which the end of [...]

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Traffic Light Showing Time Remaining

Traffic Light Showing Time Remaining

The average person spends half a year of their lifetime sitting at traffic lights. While this great and simple concept from designer and innovator Damjan Stanković will not shorten the 6 months, it will lower the frustration of drivers waiting at traffic lights that could last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. With the [...]

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