Tag: Scan
Interactive Food: High Tech Sushi With Edible QR Codes On Top
Most of the high tech food creations we've seen over the past year have to do with 3D printing. Today we aren't featuring an edible 3D printed creation, but instead, a high tech interactive food delight that will make your dining experience educational. It will also give you an excuse to be on your ...
The Most Realistic 3D Printed Action Figures (Of You And Your Pet)
Ever since 3D printing became popular, people have had fun body scanning themselves to create 3D replicas. There was a company several months ago that created Pez dispenser heads of each employee, which is the best adaptation I've seen. There was also the first 3D printing photo booth which opened l ...
No More Secrets…Brain Researchers Know Who You Are Thinking About
When you have a moment to daydream during the day, do you think about someone special in your private thoughts? If so, you better stay away from these brain researchers because they'll pluck that person right out of your brain and into their data. Yup, as technology continues to progress, it seems s ...
Fingerprint Scan Payment Technology That Makes Sure You’re Alive
The eyeball and fingerprint scans in the movies are always inspiring to watch since they hint at our future. Of course "Mission Impossible" comes to mind, but also the scene in the 1994 movie "True Lies" where the guys are walking down the corridor at their work, and their bodies are scanned to the ...
3D Printed Edible Chocolate Version Of Your Own Face
3D printing is a beautiful technology. Not only can it be used to create things that will change people's lives for the better, but it can also be used to make silly things that brighten our days. By now, I'm sure you read about the 3D Printed Pez Dispenser Featuring Your Own Head. Today I'd like to ...
Sidewalk Design To Provide QR Codes With Tourist Information
It's no joke to say QR codes have become a huge hit around the world. Pretty much every product I buy today has a QR code embedded on it. I's a great way to keep product information updated and current. So why aren't they used even more within our already jam packed technological world? The answer t ...
Personalized 3D Printed Pez Dispenser Featuring Your Own Head
I never thought a Pez dispenser article would fall into the category of technology, but this definitely does. Surely you remember eating Pez candy when you were young. The little candies get loaded into the dispenser, and when you pull the head back, the candy pops out. It was one of my favorites wh ...
Your T-Shirt Is Alive: Augmented Reality Embedded Into Clothes
Augmented reality is coming to a to a t-shirt near you...and very soon! Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based Ad-Dispatch has developed an app that works similar to QR Codes, but picks up on embedded images in the design of your t-shirt. Scanning the special shirts with your mobile phone, for example, will b ...
Lego’s Augmented Reality App: For A New Generation Of Geeks
It was only a matter of time. Of course the day would come when a company as brilliant as Lego would expand onto the iPhone, and that day is here. I'd like to introduce you to George. George is a software engineer who does lots of traveling and has lots of fun adventures. In this Life of George game ...
15 Creative & Crazy Cool QR Code Designs
By now everyone knows that a QR code is a special barcode that is designed to be read by your smartphone. It's a very simple form of augmented reality since the codes are many times in our offline lives, yet once we scan them; we are taken someone online, if that makes sense. I remember back in earl ...
QR Code Island: When Hi-Tech & Low-Tech Combine
Interesting things always seem to happen when high-tech and low-tech materials get mixed together into creative art. We've featured this before in an art installation that combined textiles and technology. The result of that design was dozens of LED flowers that were truly stunning.
Today I'd lik ...
Scan Yourself: Geeky Barcode (QR Code) Tattoos
I've read about these tattoos for a few years now, but only recently have they moved from obscure websites to popular culture. Many people like them because they make some sort of philosophical statement about numbers, databases and general consumerism, but I just think they are kinda neat because t ...
Counting Finger Ring Lets You Count Money… Really Fast!
There you are, stuck at home with nothing to do. You have tried to spend some time playing the newest XBox game, but you own its butt so it soon becomes boring and just another round of butt kickin'. You decide that maybe the kitchen needs a bit of cleaning, and you head off in that direction. How ...
How To: Scan And Open Money Images In Photoshop
It has long been said that Photoshop refuses to open or print any scanned money images. It just won't. It's a security feature that the governments have asked Adobe to implement. How it works is still a secret. However, it's not that hard to figure out that it digitally scans the image, and if i ...
Kitchen Countertop That Knows What Food You Have & How To Cook It!
We couldn't be closer to the futuristic worlds that we've seen in blockbuster movies not too long ago. The technology is starting to really catch up to the insane yet wonderful imaginations of the script writers of the '90s. Some people think it's a bad thing and some people, like myself, wouldn't ...