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Saturday 30 March 2013

Meowser: a laptop and Arduino for a led mineral cabinet

MEOWSER is a (M)ineral (E)lement Br(owser): a wooden display cabinet containing rocks and mineral samples with LED lighting controlled from a laptop computer. The laptop can display either the periodic table or a layout of the cabinets. When the user mouses over elements or minerals the appropriate lights in the wooden cabinet light up.

Japanese Mac enthusiast site, MacFan, have rumoured that Apple will be announcing the iPhone 5S at a special event on Thursday June 20, with the new model going on sale in July

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Navigate around this supercrisp 4-gigapixel spherical view and get up close and personal with the Red Planet. (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) A stunning 4-gigapixel panorama of Mars, compiled from images captured by two mast cameras aboard NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, could be one of the most detailed views of our distant neighbor yet.

Amazon promotes growing gaming business at GDC in San Francisco, discussing statistics of its GameCircle social platform and other apps available in the Amazon Appstore

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, March 30, 2013

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

The Razer Edge have announced at GDC in San Francisco that Valve's Steam software will be in-built with the Edge and Ege Pro consoles. Formerly known as Project Fiona, the Edge is a 10.1-inch Windows 8 tablet, and co-founder, CEO and creative director Min-Liang Tan says, "Providing users with access to Steam will enable Razer Edge users to play their favourite games with greater ease than ever before," TheSlanted reports.

Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com I always wanted a professional camera dolly to handle tracking shots, but the dollies were way out of my budget. Now that I have a 3-D printer, I decided to design one myself. The rails were easy. I had several steel tubes from a metal rack that I was no longer using.

Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com I get a little bit frustrated seeing how rough the surface finish is on many of the 3-D parts posted on the Internet. I'm sure that most of the 3-D printers out there haven't been calibrated or tuned properly to produce the best parts.

Mar 29, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets This publicity image provided by Oculus VR shows a virtual reality headset. The virtual reality headset, the doodad that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference.

Wearable electronics move on from iPhone, to iWatch and beyond

Mar 29, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets You can wear your heart on your sleeve. Why not your electronics? In a burgeoning trend that has captivated Silicon Valley, a mind-boggling array of "wearable electronics" has begun to arrive, not just at a website or clothing outlet near you, but on an arm, a face, a wrist and even a pinkie finger.

14:40, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Or so says Ferris Bueller. If you'd like to keep track of life and play it back at your leisure, you're probably a fan of time-lapse videos.

14:50, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets The BlackBerry Z10 went on sale Friday in the U.S., and BlackBerry loyalists will like the improvements that come with the new smartphone and operating system. But for consumers who are looking for an alternative to Apple's iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S 3, the Blackberry Z10 is not it.

Oculus Rift have officially announced that the long-awaited VR headsets started shipping this week and some customers may even receive their kits before their tracking numbers

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With more than 1 billion members, Facebook has seen a rise in users paying to play games on the site rising 24 percent from a year ago.

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What were you doing for the Bank Holiday on Friday? Eben cycled 15 miles to have a meeting, then cycled home to do a Google Hangout interview with the guys from <a href="http://creativecodingpodcas

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