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Grab Handles Grab handles are the little boxes that appear on the corners and in the middle of vector-based objecrts in either 2D or 3D manipulation in many packages. They can be grabbed by a pointing device, and dragged to resize the shape. Many graphical virtual environments utilise them, for the ease of resizing they offer. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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Walking through the orchard on a warm summer day, the smells of nature in your nostrils, the soft padding of grass underfoot, you reach up a hand, and grab a juicy red apple from a tree, plucking it delicately. You bring it to your nose and smell the fragrance, then you bite into it. It is like chewing rubber. Completely tasteless. No juice, no sweet flesh, you cannot even detect it in your mouth.
 An interesting discovery has come out of a study by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at New York University and Princeton University. Namely, the discovery that the face is not the primary communicator of emotion. The rest of the body handles that. This is of course critical for our virtual environments and their avatars.
There are several potential ways this display is working. One of the simplest and most plausible is a colour e-paper display behind a completely transparent display medium. The e-paper handles the picture, 'refreshing' the colour display to a matt black when the layer in front, the graphical display is activated. As soon as that deactivates, the 'oil' is re-drawn. Simple, elegant, and still far beyond us.
 Sixteen Millimeter Shrine is an odd little episode of the Twilight Zone Very, very powerful in the way it handles the concept of escapism. Creating a new world to live in after the old, outside world becomes intolerable. Preserving the last shreds of sanity as all else falls apart. This episode speaks of the healing power of virtual worlds in all but name.
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In experiments that pave the way for tiny mobile surgical tools activated by heat or chemicals, Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices that can be used to grab and remove living cells from hard-to-reach places wi...
(29/01/2013)
Well, just when you thought 3D printing was finally putting you back in charge of creating your own objects, along comes iRobot Corporation with a U.S. patent application for a “Robotic Fabricator.” It’s conceived as a comple...
(06/10/2003)
Sharp are in the news once again, with their latest breakthrough LCD screens for mobile devices - offering the same crisp display quality of desktop TFTs, and with an added bonus - the display system handles sound as well! ...
(08/08/2011)
Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb. Rich Perkins and Mike Tassey built the brig...
(04/05/2005)
Professor Vladimir Kulyukin at Utah State University has developed a robot that could help blind people to shop or find their way around large buildings. The idea is that you simply come to the grocery store, grab the shoppin...
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