Tag Archives: IronMan
Homemade ‘Iron Man’ suit requires a special kind of crazy
HitFilm’s VFX software now supports 8K and 360-degree video
ICYMI: This rock-armored insect could change medicine
Iron Man + TRON = TRONMan
I’m not familiar with Sam Kwok Workshop, but the work done there is fantastic. Just take a look at this Iron Man action figure. It started life as a Hot Toys 1/6 scale Ironman Mark 9 action figure that started out in Tony Stark’s fancy red and gold color scheme
What it is now is black with blue trim like it was straight out TRON: Legacy. It’s very awesome and I don’t know if you can buy it, but I certainly want it. If you mix Iron Man with TRON, you have to call the result TRONman.
If you hit up the Facebook page for Sam Kwok Workshop, be sure you peruse the other work there. The Joker Iron Man is simply awesome.
Meet the firm designing futuristic UI for Iron Man and Samsung
Young amputees will soon get ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Star Wars’ bionic hands
Updated Iron Man 3 Gaming Mouse: Iron Mouse Mark II
Back in April, we saw the first Iron Man 3 computer mouse turn up for gaming geeks who also happen to be comic book geeks. The mouse is made by a company in a Hong Kong called E-Blue. That company is at it again with an updated version of the computer mouse with a few changes .
Under the red and gold Iron Man armor exterior, the mouse has the heart of an optical gaming peripheral. It has onboard sensitivity switching ranging from 500 dpi up to 4000 dpi. It also has six buttons that use mechanical switches. Gamers can also choose their own polling rate using a switch on the bottom of the mouse.
The polling rate can be switched from 125 Hz all the way up to 1000 Hz. Keep in mind that this mouse does use a USB cable rather than being wireless – which is best for gaming. If that wire isn’t a deal breaker for you the mouse is available now for $73 over at Brando.
Let’s hope the mouse has better quality control than the bad translations and typos in the descriptions above.
Elon Musk shows off Iron Man-style rocket design with gestures and 3D printing (video)
In another confirmation that Elon Musk lives life differently from the rest of us, he's just posted a new SpaceX video that's straight out of a sci-fi movie. In it, he demonstrates designing parts for a rocket the company could use just with hand gestures using a Leap Motion controller. After that, we move to a 3D projection of the part, free standing glass projection just like Iron Man, and even an implementation with the Oculus Rift VR headset. While much of its appeal is watching a billionaire play with the latest tech toys, the video gives a peek at what's possible with technology that's actually available to a rapidly growing number of people. Inspiring stuff -- we'll see if we can finish the Hyperloop concept with a Kinect and an old Virtual Boy.
Filed under: Misc
Source: SpaceX (YouTube)
Meta and Steve Mann want to mediate your reality for $667
"Demo or die." That's the unofficial motto of Meta and it's a bedrock principle espoused by Raymond Lo, the company's CTO. Lo spent a decade under the tutelage of Professor Steve Mann (known to many as the father of wearable computing), and is one of the few to make it through Mann's Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto. As an instructor, Mann requires tangible results on a regular basis from his students' projects, and now, with Lo as CTO and Mann as chief scientist, Meta's operating with the same ethos as it develops augmented mediated reality headsets. Meta's idea is to meld the real and the digital together in a fully functional computing environment. It wants to augment your reality, and, in fact, mediate it.
We saw a prototype mediated reality headset from Meta a couple months ago, where we witnessed some rudimentary demos: typing in thin air and grabbing and moving digital objects with our hands. Naturally, the company's made some improvements in the interim. The latest prototype hardware has morphed into a slightly more integrated design, but it still has the boxy and rough appearance of a 3D -printed prototype. Which, of course, it is. The Kinect-stuck-atop-a-pair-of-Rec Specs look is only temporary however, as Meta is finally ready to start taking orders for its first production headset, the Meta.01. You can pre-order one for $667.00 on Meta's website, with deliveries set to begin in November. As opposed to the prototype you see in the image above, renders of the commercial device look like a cross between ski goggles and a pair of Oakleys. The magic of Meta doesn't lie in its looks, however.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: Meta