11039934
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boneglorious writes:
Cynthia Breazeal's robotics group at MIT, long known for such things as the robotic flower garden, has switched their attention to non-traditional printing media. Using a sugar solution that is fused together during the printing process, they have created such goodies as Batwing Crunching (Everquest) and Crispy Bat Wings (World of Warcraft). For the moment, they all just taste like sugar, but Breazeal has plans for adding sound, smell, and an appealing swaying motion to improve user's experience of the product.
9182886
submission
boneglorious writes:
Thought it was cool when you started being able to order pizza from within Everquest? Wouldn't it be cooler if you could order Batwing Crunchies while playing Everquest, but Crispy Bat Wings while playing WOW, and print them out? A pair of M.I.T. grad students have taken us one step closer to this by releasing a "conceptual design" for a 3d printer that uses food to build up a 3d shape. Unfortunately, it's still only a design, dashing many geeks' dreams of never having to leave their computer, but there is already a candy printer that works by fusing sugar together into very interesting-looking 3d objects, so this may not be as far away as it seems.
9182470
submission
boneglorious writes:
Thought it was cool when you started being able to order pizza from within Everquest? Wouldn't it be cooler if you could order Murloc Fin Soup while playing WOW, and print it out? A pair of M.I.T. grad students have taken us one step closer to this by releasing a "conceptual design" for a 3d printer that uses food to build up a 3d shape. Unfortunately, it's still only a design, dashing many geeks' dreams of never having to leave their computer, but there is already a candy printer that works by fusing sugar together into very interesting-looking 3d objects, so this may not be as far away as it seems.
3381767
submission
boneglorious writes:
As a graduate student, I have to read a lot of academic papers in pdf format, so I'd like to get an ebook reader just for this purpose. I wouldn't mind being able to read other things, but pdfs are definitely my main concern. I'd like recommendations for the best ebook reader for this situation.
Most ebook readers seem too small. The iRex Digital Reader 1000 looks good due to the larger screen size, but at $850, it's quite a bit pricier than, say, the Kindle. Any DR1000 readers care to comment on its good and/or bad points?
The Kindle doesn't have pdf support, but you can email pdfs to Amazon and they'll send them to your Kindle, reformatted. Does this work? If so, how do the pdfs look? Do they still have images? Are the pages just shrunk or ar they actually repaginated so the text is big enough to read?
Thanks for any comments/suggestions!
