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Fitbit and 2K Games have announced a collaboration that will provide in-game rewards in NBA 2K17 for a healthy lifestyle when wearing a Fitbit fitness tracker. Which Fitbit is right for me? Gamers who manage to walk 10,000 steps a day will be rewarded…
LEGO bricks were used to create an impressive scrolling pixel display board. Builder AncientJames gave some details about the build in a post on the Eurobricks forums. He built a motorized scrolling version and a hand-cranked single letter model that uses punch card style LEGO constructions to program the letters.
via reddit, The Awesomer
Good on Microsoft for not only dreaming up the Surface Studio, but finding app developers that totally get what it’s capable of and understand how designers sketch. In the last entry, we caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a flythroughs of 3D spaces that had apparently been sketched, plane by plane, in 2D:
That app is called Mental Canvas, and it looks freaking amazing:
To be sure, this looks better-suited for architects and environments designers rather than us industrial designers working on 3D objects—the planar nature of buildings and walls seems the most natural fit for the technology. But that’s just my impression after seeing the video and the flythroughs. We’ll have to wait until this app is in the hands of a DiTullo or Nugent to see what it can do for us.
Mental Canvas is based on technology developed by Julie Dorsey, a Computer Science professor at Yale University, and her research team. As of toda, you can download a player that will allow you to interact with drawings that the development team has created. The app itself will be available when the Surface Studio launches in mid-December.
Microsoft’s Connect developer conference kicked off Wednesday with some expected news: The next versions of the Visual Studio IDE have arrived on Windows and Mac. (Yep, you read that right.)
After a set of leaks from MSDN Magazine on Monday, the company officially confirmed Wednesday morning that it’s bestowing the Visual Studio brand on Xamarin Studio, a C# development environment for the Mac that the company acquired earlier this year when it bought the company of the same name. In addition, Microsoft’s confusingly named Visual Studio “15†has been officially renamed Visual Studio 2017 and given a release candidate at the show.
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Fitbit and 2K Games have announced a collaboration that will provide in-game rewards in NBA 2K17 for a healthy lifestyle when wearing a Fitbit fitness tracker. Which Fitbit is right for me? Gamers who manage to walk 10,000 steps a day will be rewarded…