Jun 24, 2009 | Tech News
Here at 8ninths we are seeing a trend towards increased commercialization of rapid prototyping (aka 3D printing) technology and think it warrants a deeper look into the phenomenon, as well as the consumer services being offered. Eroded Landscape #2, by Mark J Stock, available on Shapeways.com Rapid Prototyping is… Read More
Jun 24, 2009 | Tech News
Crashplan is a great execution of an idea that has been knocking around for years and has surprised me that no one has executed on it as a business proposition until now. Here’s the deal. Unfortunately hard disks are not made of magic. They’re made of spinning magnetic disks, electrical… Read More
Jun 11, 2009 | Tech News
Okay, I might have the saying confused with “You gotta eat your veggies” or “You gotta wash your hands”. But like a lot of Mom’s sayings, they are all great advice. “Earned Media” is fast becoming The Meme of the marketing world. And I think it is spreading fast because… Read More
Jun 10, 2009 | Mobile & Web
WHAT IS IT ? the sixtyone is a site for discovering great new music from new artists. A band can upload their tracks and using a ‘wisdom of crowds’ model the best of the submissions are surfaced by the sixtyone community in a similar way to social news site… Read More
Jun 10, 2009 | Tech News
WHAT IS IT? AskNature is an open source project dedicated to sharing information on how nature elegantly solves problems. Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world. Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design… Read More
Jun 10, 2009 | Augmented Reality | Tech News | Virtual Reality
First, Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic gave us a view of what a virtual user interface looks like. He put on a pair of bulky VR goggle, and a pair of heavy VR gloves, and manipulated data objects on screen, “physically”, just as one would wooden blocks on a… Read More
Jun 10, 2009 | Mobile & Web
image from Apple Iphone Games Blog Not going to rehash what the Deep Dive has already said about the iPhone Gaming potential, but do want to provide some more evidence that Apple is winning this war against Nintendo and Sony PSP: Since the original launch, Apple has included a… Read More
May 20, 2009 | Tech News
It’s an exciting time to be a photographer. The affordability of shooting in HD and editing on a home computer is now a reality. What started off as experiments by artists and videographers are now starting to permeate the mainstream, as the print medium and the way people consume content… Read More
May 20, 2009 | Mobile & Web
The one thing that’s absolutely astounding about the web is the diverse amount of content, services, and ideas you’ll encounter. The long tail is very long indeed, and even the “weirdest” ideas will eventually come to be. It is with this sense of “I can’t Believe Someone Built This”… Read More
May 20, 2009 | Mobile & Web
WHAT IS IT? Social games, or social network games, are those turns-based non-interactive, and non-cool graphics games that seem to defy convention logics about gaming. Social games share more DNA and ancestry with the board games like Monopoly and Life than any games that are computer-based. I’ve been playing… Read More
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