Category: Therbligs
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Autodesk Announces Open Source 3D Printing System
This in from the NYTimes in time for MakerFaire Autodesk is hoping to kick-start three-dimensional printing in much the same way Google spurred smartphone development, with a free operating system. The company announced on Wednesday that later this year it will release an open software platform for 3-D printing, which would enable makers of 3-D…
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This App Trains You to See Farther
From Popular Mechanics: Twenty-twenty vision? Big deal. UltimEyes could train your brain to see in 20/7.5. Jamie Allen/Getty Images When a major league baseball pitcher throws a 95-mph fastball, only about 400 milliseconds—the duration of a blink—pass before the ball rockets over the plate. And a batter gets less than half that time to decide…