REVOPOINT’s new affordable handheld scanner lets you easily turn large objects into accurate 3D models

The Revopoint RANGE makes use of the company’s new infrared structured light projector, which captures a large area of 360mm x 650mm (at 600mm distance), allowing you to scan objects as massive as an entire car or a room in just a few minutes. The RANGE works as both a fixed or a handheld scanning device, recording both 3D and color data to provide an accurate model with precision of up to 0.1mm, as well as accurate color information. The models you scan can then be used in the metaverse, for reverse engineering and modeling, or even for 3D printing, covering a wide variety of applications across a whole host of industries.

Designer: Revopoint Design

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The benefit of the Revopoint RANGE lies entirely in its name. The device has a scanning area of 360mm x 650mm (that’s nearly a 1.2ft x 2ft bounding box), allowing you to cover large grounds in less time. The RANGE also uses a state-of-the-art dual camera system, with a projector emitting invisible infrared light to offer scans at even higher accuracies than scanners that use lasers or blue light. The fact that the light projector emits invisible light makes the RANGE perfect for scanning humans and animals too. Hold the Revopoint RANGE as close as 300 mm (12 inches) or as far as 800 (31 inches) from your subject, and its ability to work as rapidly as 12-18 FPS means you can scan an entire human in under 2 minutes, or an interior setting in just a handful of minutes, complete with color information, and accuracies of 0.1mm. RANGE also lets you scan transparent and reflective objects, thanks to a scanning spray that creates an opaque film on the object, and then disappears entirely in just a few hours.

Future of Interior Design – Deliver impressive interior design customization by scanning furniture, fittings, or even whole rooms and creating full-color vivid 3D models for use in interior design software like DreamPlan or MagicPlan.

Streamlined Car Modeling – You can quickly capture and measure the exact dimensions even when scanning complicated geometric surfaces.

Capturing History – Its handheld scanning mode, lightweight, and compatibility with iOS and Android devices make it a portable, versatile tool capable of capturing large artworks without needing to move or touch them.

From Head to Toes in Under 2 Minutes – Simplify the creation of human 3D models for video games, AR, and VR applications with the whole body and head scan done in under two minutes.

Accurate 3D Models – With a single-frame precision of up to 0.1mm and a point distance of up to 0.3mm, the RANGE’s new dual IR cameras with aspheric lenses reduce image aberrations and ensure that the micro-structured infrared light evenly reaches the sensors.

It’s a Colorful World – RANGE’s RGB camera can capture an object’s color as you scan, ready to be merged with the 3D model after meshing the data to create accurate fully-colored, nearly lifelike 3D models.

These scans can then be used in a whole host of industries. The highly precise models are perfect for reverse engineering, modifying, and upgrading. Transportation designers can use these models to run simulations, upgrade designs, do wind tunnel tests, while workshops could use these models to create custom panels and trims. Interior designers could create an entire 3D bank of furniture and decor that can then be placed in virtual rooms to understand how they look. Models can be edited, with colors, textures, and materials altered. The color information captured by the scanner proves highly valuable to animators too, who can directly scan humans and rig them without spending hours and days painting on layers of skin, hair, eyes, clothes, etc. The output models can even be 3D printed, either in a single-material filament or in full color!

Scans Made With the Range

The Revopoint RANGE is designed to be universally applicable, versatile, yet affordable. It can be used indoors or outdoors, and in handheld or stand-mounted formats. Using a stabilizer along with the RANGE offers better control and faster scanning, while Revopoint also supplies large turntables for big objects, with weights of up to 200kgs (441lbs). The RANGE starts at just $328 (thanks to a 55% discount for super early bird backers), rivaling their popular POP2 and MINI models, which had an average starting price of $799. The Revopoint RANGE is compatible with Windows 81011 (64-bit), Android, iOS, and Mac devices, and requires just a USB cable for power and data transmission.

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Fujifilm turned its flagship camera into an infrared forensics tool

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An infrared thermometer + biometric scanner that logs employee attendance as well as health!

If used correctly and ethically, contact tracing and biometric identification can truly help curb the spread of pandemics. Now I’m yet to see a case where a corporation or a government hasn’t abused its power when it comes to identifying and tracing the whereabouts of individuals, but I’m still hopeful that they can be held accountable if they do misuse this ability. The VERO isn’t just some regular thermometer… it was built for helping companies monitor the health of their individual employees. Designed as a part of a prompt from Render Weekly, the VERO reads temperature using non-contact infrared sensors, but it doesn’t just do that. It helps keep a tab of people scanned too, allowing offices or businesses to internally test their own employees. The VERO scans the patient’s temperature while also logging in their name, details, and their identity… like a biometric scanner that captures an employee’s attendance as well as their health!

Designer: Ryan Krause

This hand-held thermometer + blood-testing device helps perform quick diagnostics

Putting his resources to good use during the pandemic and the ensuing global lockdown, Indian designer Anshuman Kumar has designed a conceptual device that can help rapidly scan and diagnose people for diseases by checking their body for fever, as well as testing their blood for the pathogen. The OZE isn’t just another hand-held thermometer… it’s a state-of-the-art testing device that allows you to diagnose people for not one, but several viruses.

What really sets OZE apart is its ability to do multiple things while still being a hand-held device. On its primary interface is a meter that displays the temperature captured by the infrared thermal-scope, along with advice that tells you whether you need to consult a doctor. The interface even goes the distance by displaying stats like air-quality and weather updates, serving multiple purposes. The interface acts as an output for two separate inputs on the OZE, an infrared thermometer on the front, which can read body temperature without contact, as well as a blood-test-kit on the base of the device.

Just pop the base off and you’ve got OZE’s blood-testing module that lets you instantly take a small prick of blood (like a glucose meter) and run it against a virus stream based on the cartridge loaded within the OZE. The current setup shows test-kits for COVID-19 along with the Hantavirus that suddenly popped up sometime in March in China. The blood-testing kit takes a prick, tests your sample, and can safely load another empty vial and lancet needle once the old one’s taken out. There’s even a set of pull-out finger-wipes on the OZE, allowing you to go through your test swiftly and conveniently. Diagnostic results are displayed on the same interface at the very top, laying out the information pretty clearly in a step-by-step fashion, not just for the people being tested but for the operators too. Test the temperature, if it’s indicative of a symptom, perform a quick blood test and the OZE lets you know if you need to visit a medical professional.

The device is entirely wireless and is no larger than a contactless thermometer. Designed to be used at any place where you’d see a potential influx of large amounts of people, from airports to grocery shops, the OZE just gives you an extra layer of security, allowing you to not just check the temperature, which surely is an indication of a viral illness, but to even double down on any doubtful cases by giving them a quick blood test. Besides, it tells you the weather and air-quality outside too, isn’t that just convenient?

Designer: Anshuman Kumar

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Amazon’s Fire TV Blaster brings voice control to entire home theater setups

Amazon is adding even more hands-free functionality to your TV viewing experience. The company has announced Fire TV Blaster, an infrared (IR) companion device that extends voice control beyond streaming features to TV and cable control, too.

SpyFinder Pro Review: Cameras Can Run But they Can’t Hide

These days, video cameras are so small that they can be hidden inside just about anything, from a soda can, to a wall clocks, to the spine of a book. Seriously, there are tons of devices on the market which let you hide a camera where it’s unlikely to be detected. This poses some serious privacy concerns when you’re in places like hotel rooms, AirBnBs, dressing rooms, locker rooms, and even bathrooms. If you’re concerned that some freak might be watching you while you’re in your undies – or worse – then you might want to check out the SpyFinder Pro.

This pocket-sized gadget is designed to make spotting spy cameras easy. The trick is that it’s next to impossible to create a camera without a reflective lens. The SpyFinder Pro takes advantage of this by projecting bright LEDs into a room, then providing optics for you to pick out those reflections.

Spy camera detectors are nothing new, but many of them rely on RF signal detection, and lots of cameras these days simply don’t broadcast and rely on local storage. Plus, using the reflections instead of radio signals means this can detect cameras whether they’re turned on or not. There are also cheaper LED-based devices on the market, but the SpyFinder Pro is supposed to be brighter, and therefore capable of detecting more cameras, and from a greater distance (up to 45 feet away). Since I didn’t have one of those cheap devices on hand to compare with, all I can do is speak to how well this one works.

The SpyFinder Pro is quite compact – measuring in at about 4.5″ x 1.5″ x 0.5″, and weighing under 50 grams, including the two AAA batteries that power it. Priced at $198 during its Kickstarter funding run, I was hoping that it might be made from something more substantial than plastic, but as long as you take care of it, I don’t think there’s much risk of wear or damage.

Using the SpyFinder Pro is pretty simple. Just press the button on top, and it starts blinking a ring of six bright red LEDs on the face of the gadget. Then look through the viewfinder and gradually pan and tilt around the room to look for lens-like reflections. When you see a blinking reflection back through the lens, there’s a possibility that it’s a camera lens. The LEDs can be adjusted to three different levels of intensity, with the brighter settings best for bigger rooms. As an added bonus, it makes you look like the Terminator in selfies. One minor usability flaw is that if you look through the lens while wearing glasses, you need to make sure to hold it far enough away that you don’t accidentally press the brightness button with your eyeglass frame, which I did a couple of times.

I was able to quickly pick out a camera lens hiding behind a mirror, the lens behind the smoked glass of a smartphone and an iMac’s webcam, a GoPro I hid inside of a tissue box, and the tiny spy camera lighter that I had sitting around from my days as a wannabe secret agent man. It’s a little hard to make out in the photo below, but that little white dot in the mirrored area is a spy camera hiding behind a mirror, and totally invisible to the naked eye.

It’s best to sweep the entire room in a methodical way, from left to right or right to left, in layers from top to bottom or bottom to top. That way, you won’t miss anything. Overall, the SpyFinder Pro did a great job identifying camera lenses I hid around my space. However, it also picked up a few false alarms – other curved and shiny surfaces can also reflect back, but those are typically things like doorknobs or glassware, objects unlikely to conceal a camera. Still, it’s better than it catches too many items than too few.

The SpyFinder Pro delivers on its promises of picking out a wide variety of hidden camera lenses with relative ease. However, at $198 it’s a bit expensive for a single-purpose gadget. That said, if you do travel a lot, find yourself in strange places on a regular basis, or have other reasons to be worried about your privacy, it’s a worthwhile investment.

Man invented cooking with fire. The Brava oven reinvented it.

Every few years we come across a technology that redefines an industry. The cooking world saw its last revolution with microwaves, but things have been pretty stagnant from thereon… until now. The Brava Oven takes the oven a step further and uses a technology that they call Pure Light cooking. Here’s what it can do. It can instantly reach temperatures of 500°F from room temperature in a single second… and its cooking range is so well-defined, that the Brava Oven can, on one cooking tray, cook three different meals at three separate temperatures!

It sounds almost magical, but the Brava Oven uses a sort of infrared technology to eliminate the need to pre-heat an oven. In literally an instant, the oven can reach any desired temperature and cook the food within. The Brava also comes with a single tray that has three separate zones. The makers claim that their proprietary Pure Light technology can focus the heat within the zones so perfectly, you can cook three different dishes at three different temperatures, at the same time. Imagine being able to make instant meals, from meats to grilled veggies, to toasted buns, all at the same time, in the same oven! Neither do you need extra utensils, nor do you need to waste time pre-heating the oven. Brava claims their technology can cook meats perfectly, getting them to the exact level of sear you want… and since their Pure Light system works in an instant, the cooking can not just start in a jiffy, but can stop at exactly the right time too, making sure your food is never burnt!

The design of Brava reflects the modernity of the technology within it. A pure, clean surface treatment makes it look less like an oven and more avant-garde, like a 3D printer. It even comes with a beautifully textured surface on top that isn’t just alluring to the eye, it also acts as a surface to rest your food before or after cooking. The Brava also comes with a touchscreen interface to control it. You can pretty much decide what cooking techniques you want on your food, and even select cooking styles from the recipes that Brava provides, tailor-made for your oven. Choose a recipe, arrange the ingredients in their zones on the cooking tray, and set the cooking style (as per each zone) on the touchscreen display. The Brava does the rest, making sure each individual element is cooked to absolute perfection, in literally half the time you’d originally take. And once you’re done, all you have to do is wash one baking tray. I could get used to this… I really could.

Designer: Brava

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