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Now, print instant meals to tackle hunger
London, Dec 26 : First there were meals we had to make all by ourselves. Then ‘readymade’ meals came along, making life that much easier. But what if you could just print your dinner using food ‘ink’?

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National Sports Briefs
Associated Press PHOENIX — LeBron James thinks contraction could help the NBA. Calling the league “watered down,” James told reporters before Thur …

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IPCA Laboratories: Buy
The US FDA approval for its Indore SEZ would pave the way for improved profitability and will be a near-term trigger to look out for.

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2010: When advanced technology gave consumer durables a new face
NEW DELHI: Last year when Hollywood director James Cameron’s sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’ hit the silver screen, little did consumers realise that the 3D technology could be invading their living rooms. It happened this year, so did other new technology products in the durables segment.

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The printed future of Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner traditionally centres on the turkey or goose. But if US scientists have their way, everyone may be sitting around a printer. The team at Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) are building a 3D food printer, as part of the bigger Fab@home project, which they hope one day will be as commonplace as the microwave oven or blender. Just pop the raw food “inks” in the …

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Looking to the future: Creating novel foods using 3D printing
Techniques such as 3D printing, elctrospinning, and laser sintering could work together as one process, to produce whole products from raw components like algae protein, fat and starch, TNO predicts.

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Toshiba WX800 and VX700 HDTVs Available in the US, BDX3000 3D Blu-ray Player Coming Soon
When Toshiba showed off their high-end Cinema Series HDTVs, there was a bit of sadness which immediately followed the announcement that the sets wouldn’t be available in the United States right off the bat. But, then a glimmer of hope, as they clarified that they would be coming, just at a later time. And finally, that time has arrived. And with it, Toshiba is bringing quite the party. The …

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New Leica Construction Office Allows Contractors to Verify Design Data Before Taking it to the Field, Saving Time and …
Leica Geosystems announces its new Leica Construction Office (LCO) software which provides contractors with the ability to verify design data before taking it to the field, eliminating costly rework due to unverified data being loaded directly to the machines.

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11th annual Fritzler corn maze opens this weekend; design features salute to military
The Fritzler Corn Maze is the emblem for the United States Department of Defense as seen from the air on Wednesday morning. The corn in the maze reaches to around 10 feet and covers two miles of trails.

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There are different kinds of digital photo frames on the market. You can get a 7 inch digital frame easily. The manufacturers have the competition in price and function. There are continuous reports about the 3D digital frame which is even the naked 3D digital frame.

In the early June, Japan NewSight presented a 3D display digital frame on US SID 2010. The frame is made with the naked 3D display technology of the company. People can see the stereo image without wearing 3D glasses. The item applies the double convex lens design and the parallax difference is 5.

Even though the professional 3D shooting equipment or 3D picture processing technology is unavailable, the users can process the 3D photo with the product and translating software. NewSight pushes out a 3D photo converting software which can enable the users to convert the photo conveniently.

Aiptek also launches its 3D digital frame on this Computex Taipei. The digital photo frame is upgraded continuously. There is a wide diversity of opinion on the function of digital frame. It will be tested whether the 3D idea will be recognized on the market.

The digital photo frame develops very fast. The different thoughts are given to the frame by different manufacturers. We can gain a glance at the ever innovative ideas of the digital photo frames.

Sony DPP-F700 – built-in printer
There is built-in Dye-sublimation printer on the 7 inch display backside. You can print the photos in two sizes (photo size and postcard size). When you print, you just need to insert the particular type of paper and ribbon which is the Sony produced “super code 2″. The printing of photo size costs about 39 seconds and the one of postcard size is about 45 seconds. The size of the digital frame is 276*150*186mm and the weight is 1.8 kilo.

EXEMODE YASHICA DVF828 – built in scanner
It comes with 8 inch display screen and 1GB internal memory. It can play the image stored in the memory, SD card or memory stick. It can also play music and video. Particularly, it’s able to scan the 4*54×5?10×15cm at the pixels of 300dpi at most. As you put the photo or magazine in the slot and press the scan button, you can complete the scanning and save it. The size is 235*180*85mm and it weighs 0.8 kilos.

GREEN HOUSE-digital frame of card size
The size is 81*48mm and it only weighs 28g. The size of display screen is 1.44 inch. You can connect it to computer with USB interface to start the built-in program and copy the JPEG/BMP/GIF picture saved in the computer. There’s a built-in chargeable battery. It can work for two hours after it’s charged with USB for one and half an hour.

As there is large space on the backside of the display screen, the purchaser can put the LOGO of enterprise and send it to the customer as a gift.

It seems that the digital frames are to the consumer’s needs, but they are not wide spreading. Not only the function, but also the price plays an important role in the purchase.

‘State of the art’ Office friendly 3D Printers

The appearance of 3D Printers on the market somewhat in the early 1980’s indicated of technological developments to come, for this pre-production scene.

Today, some compare the vast availability of these 3 dimensional printers to television shows such as ‘Star trek’ but others view the ability to enter a CAD 3-dimensional program in one end, and print a 3D model in the other – purely out of the ‘Matrix’ series of films.

Already some US television-shows feature these 3D printers and demonstrate their varied applications to a significant degree.

The main objective of using such a 3D printing systems is to shorten the production process and focus the decision process within the production process.

Rapid Prototyping as its called, allows the manufacturer to examine and evaluate a rapidly produced or rather printed model, way before the actual product enters ‘real’ production.
The advantage as its described is shortening the production process, and usually eliminating ‘marketing’ and technological production doubts before they start.
In journalistic terms this would be described as ‘proofing’ the article before its printed. In manufacturing terms its printing before actual production takes place.

These 3d printers have various applications ranging from medical to automotive to footwear but they all have a common link; enter a diagram – print a real product to decide on before production begins.

Imagine for a minute a sports shoe company like Nike or a cell phone company such as Nokia having to decide between a dozen mobile phones and or shoe designs, on an LCD monitor without seeing the real product. Such companies in the past have had to authorize a production run of millions of units only to halt production down the road due to unforeseen errors.

Production designers today have changed the whole process by using a 3D printer, allowing these companies to actually print a sports shoe or a mobile phone, plug electronics into it and immediately use the phone or shoe to see if the product is actually what they wanted or it needs alterations.
Its widely reported in the media that companies such as Objet Geometries LTD supply multinationals such as Addidas design & production centers with 3D printers that actively improve the production process and shorten the lead time necessary to expedite marketing plans and improve competitiveness.

There is no substitute to actually holding the mobile phone and using it, letting the marketing people involved examine it before starting production in the millions of units.

Even though some of the manufacturers of 3D printers claim their printer is ‘office friendly’ and that the model printed is really life like, the reality of the matter lies somewhere in between.

Some printers rely on producing these models with a sandy powder, glue, and an injection of colors from 2 dimensional printer cartridges. The finished result is a very poor finish on the models, very poor detail, and very breakable models. The whole office friendly ideal is hampered by the powder itself which tends to spread itself throughout the office environment covering the walls, ceilings, and clothing.

Furthermore these printers demand a secondary finishing process involving dipping the printed model in a bath of super glue, wearing rubber gloves & spectacles for protection. Not really an office friendly function by any standards!

Other 3D printer manufacturers such as www.2objet.com implement a different printing technology; Polyjet, allowing the printer to function in the same manor as a 2D inkjet printer bought down the road from your Office Depot store.

The models printed with their Eden series of 3D printers do not crack so easily and truly resemble the original shoe, mobile phone, or skull bone part. The Eden Objet 3D printers are differentiated from the rest of their competitors by being able to print in high resolution very thin model walls, in various resins and with a superb smooth finish. In fact the printed 3D models results are of such fine quality that the layman isn’t able to tell the 3D printed model apart from the real production product.

In a real office environment having a very small foot print area and needing a printer which is technologically years ahead of its time the range of the 3D printers available from Objet presents the exceptional choice.

iPhone DIY revolver case will get you shot
I would hope that no one here in the US or really anywhere would try to carry this iPhone case out in public and actually use it. I can see you being shot by the police as you try to answer your phone. The case has the handle that looks like a revolver. The iPhone slips into the square holder of the iPhone Revolver and the whole works is designed to be slipped down the front or back of your …

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Shell buys East Resources for $4.7 billion
East Resources, a Pennsylvania oil and gas exploration company started locally in 1983, is being purchased by Shell for a whopping $4.7 billion, the companies announced Friday.

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Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack
The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux distribution announced on Tuesday the official release of version 13, codenamed Goddard. It brings some important platform improvements and several new desktop applications. In order to get hardware-accelerated 3D graphics on the Linux desktop, users have typically had to rely on the proprietary drivers that are supplied by the graphic card vendors …

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P2i And Global Armour Announce Revolutionary New High Performance Life Protection Garments
A revolutionary new generation of high-performance body armour, launched today, is lighter, more comfortable and more protective than any previous design, thanks to P2i’s liquid-repellent nano-coating technology

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Autodesk Launches Easy-to-Use, Free 2D and 3D Online Home Design Software
Autodesk, Inc. , a leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced the launch of Autodesk Homestyler – free** online software for 2D and 3D home design and remodeling projects.

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Socle sPad A11 tablet platform should fast-track iPad rivals
Apple’s iPad is on the market (in the US at least), rivals from Notion Ink , Toshiba , HP and others are expected sometime this year; if you’re a manufacturer and want a tablet of your own then you need all the shortcuts you can get. SoC manufacturer Socle Technology have pitched up with GlobalFoundries 65nm chipset, an ARM Mali 3D GPU and full 1080p HD hardware decoding in their sPad A11 Design …

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I know the basic idea, but how does it make things that parts in them like gears?

Starting at US$28900, this scanner is positioned as the entry-level model of the line-up. The uniscan offers equal resolution and speed of acquisition and an accuracy of up to 80 µm in addition to all the well-known Handyscan 3D benefits: self-positioning, true portability, versatility and ease of use.

PreXion, Inc. Launches New PreXion3D Volumetric Imaging Software & Implant Planning Tools
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ — PreXion, Inc., (www.prexion.com ) the leader in high quality 3D Cone Beam Imaging systems for dentistry, today announced that it has launched and started shipping new PreXion3D Volumetric Imaging Software for its 3D Cone Beam Computed Tomography system for dentistry.

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Fujitsu cedes ‘iPad’ trademark to Apple
Japan’s Fujitsu has ceded rights to the “iPad” name to Apple, just in time for the tablet computer from the California company to hit US stores next month.

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PreXion, Inc. Launches New PreXion3D Volumetric Imaging Software & Implant Planning Tools
PreXion, Inc., the leader in high quality 3D Cone Beam Imaging systems for dentistry, today announced that it has launched and started shipping new PreXion3D Volumetric Imaging Software for its 3D Cone Beam Computed Tomography system for dentistry. Â This new product incorporates a range of advanced features including tools for implant planning and placement and an enhanced version of its …

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