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Comment Re:Pixels Are Your Friend (Score 1) 668

by dfgumby on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:50PM (#23147674) Attached to: The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops?

I agree. I frequently have an application running on one side of the screen with the debugger on the other. The alternative is multiple monitors, but widescreen takes up less desk real estate, and I would feel a bit silly on the road with my laptop and an additional monitor.

Smart 'Lego' Set Conjures Up Virtual 3D Twin 63

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 31, 2008 @01:00PM from the building-in-two-places-at-once dept.

philetus writes "New Scientist has up a story on Posey, a hub-and-strut construction kit that senses its configuration and communicates it wirelessly to a computer. From the article: 'If you gave Lego brains, you might get something like Posey, a new hands-on way of interacting with computers developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US. When Posey's plastic pieces are snapped together, an exact copy of the construction appears on a computer screen. Every twist of, say, a stick figure's arm is mirrored in 3D modelling software ... Each piece's plastic shell is stuffed with chips and devices for processing these signals. They are sent wirelessly to a computer using a low-power protocol called ZigBee. This means, bending Posey's pieces can make objects on-screen respond in real time. Right now, each custom-made piece has about US$50 (£25) worth of parts, Weller estimates. But if mass produced, it could be much cheaper.'"

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