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He bent his wrist and made the fingers curl. You could see the light bulbs go off and he looked up and said, 'It copies me.' It was really an incredible moment.

3D Images like those in Google Earth are generated through a process called texture mapping. We see through a photograph, we look at a texture. Textures are stretched across the surface of a 3D model, in essence becoming the skin for the model.

12,000 sensors buried under the asphalt, affixed to street lamps and atop city buses. The sensors measure everything from air pollution to where there are free parking spaces. They can even tell garbage collectors which dumpsters are full, and automatically dim street lights when no one is around.

One of the key elements of the exhibition is a twelve minute animation of Piranesi's Carceri series made by Gregoire Dupond at Factum Arte specifically for the exhibition. This series of sixteen visionary images, originally etched by Piranesi in his late twenties, shows the workings of his imagination, merging his architectural ambitions with his obsessive interest in antiquity. Watching Gregoire Dupond's animation is like entering Piranesi's mind. You can view it online. Having p

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Sounds, and words, are better with pictures.

Adrian Bowyer invented RepRap - humanity's first practical and useful self-replicating machine.

The Powell Library at UCLA, where Ray Bradbury wrote "Fahrenheit 451" while feeding dimes into a pay-as-you-go typewriter in the basement.

"Well it was 20 years ago today"

Why is this pit still open?

Now you know why the knights in your chess sets always look like theyíre screaming in agony.

Become a broadcaster. Turn video distribution on its head. You say you want a revolution. Here it is.

We all benefit from ART, attention restoration theory.

History without the eloquence of images is blind; art without the testimony of texts is deaf.

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Ari Reichental, president and CEO of 3D Systems; Hod Lipson, associate professor of engineering at Cornell University; and Max Lobovsky, president and CEO of Formlabs discuss 3D Printing. They're all looking for the killer app but agree "It's going to change everything in the next 5-10 years."

People living off-grid can now pay for electricity to power their phones simply by sending a text message ñ the cheapest method found so far.

The ultimate madness of consumerism. A service to manage your 'stuff' so that you never have to see it again. Genius.

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