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Over-Dramatic Mannequin Promises To Make Computer Animation Easy [Video]
If you reached the limits of your artistic capabilities with crude flipbooks in your high school textbooks, but dream of being an animator, the Qumarion will make up for at least a little lack of talent.More »
Computer Animation in the 70s Was as Hard as You'd Expect [Video]
Wireframe boxes and freehand squiggles might not be as exciting as dinosaurs and terminators, but this 1971 film from the National Research Council of Canada is an important history lesson for anyone who doesn't appreciate the sophisticated animation software we have at our disposal today.More &...
The Future of CGI Is Using Motion Capture to Recreate Inanimate Objects [Humor]
Some people complain that there's too much CGI in movies. Nothing is quote unquote real anymore. I say screw them. Let's CGI anything possible. Actors posing as furniture! Motion capturing non motion! Backgrounds! Guns! Lamps! All CGI everything, baby.More »
Nokia Says Sayonara To Japan - Again
That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull the plug on their Japan operations, at the same time announcing they will re-enter the market with their luxury sub-brand Vertu. They started offering those phones (and the services that come with them) in September 2009, but now d...
Biohazard Outbreak Survive: This Is How Resident Evil Looks Like As A Mobile Social Game
Survival horror video game series Resident Evil has sold well over 45 million units since the first title came out back in 1996, on various platforms, for example the PlayStation 1, the Nintendo DS, or the iPhone. But there has never been a mobile social game in the series (“Biohazard”...
Hit Video Game Professor Layton To Go Social On Mobage This Year
Konami, Sega, Hudson, Capcom: virtually every Japanese video game maker these days is producing social games, too. The newest company jumping on the bandwagon is Level-5 whose mega hit series Professor Layton will be turned into a (mobile) social game in Japan in the fall this year. "Professor La...
"Michael's King Of Pop": Michael Jackson Stars In New Japanese Mobile Social Game
Michael Jackson may have passed away two years ago, but he has always been especially big in Japan. So big, in fact, that he now gets his own social game. Dubbed “Michael’s King Of Pop” [JP], the title is exclusively available on Japanese mobile social gaming platform Mobage.Th...
Video: NTT Docomo's Mobile, Simultaneous Translation System
The idea of translating spoken language from cell phone to cell phone isn’t exactly new, but the mobile simultaneous translation system NTT Docomo is currently working on looks really impressive. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier says it uses the “best technologies” for voice...
Padfone: Asus Officially Announces Its Android Tablet/Phone Combo (Videos)
Today, on the first day of the yearly Computex Taipei exhibition in Taiwan, Asus took the wraps off the Android tablet/phone combo it teased last week. Dubbed Padfone, Asus is relatively mum on details (specs, pricing, availability) at this point.Read the rest on CrunchGear.
Video: Smartphone Simulates Sensation Of Buttons On A Touchscreen
Do you miss the feeling of pressing physical buttons when you touch icons or letters on a smartphone touchscreen? Japan’s second largest mobile carrier KDDI is working on a display that recreates exactly that “clicking sensation” by combining vibration with a pressure sensor.The...
