You can now read articles from the New Scientist on-line.

http://www.newscientist.com/news.ns

For example check out weird and wonderful patent applications in a column by Barry Fox or how about Pocket-sized computer ’soul’ developed at

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7826

Dassault has acquired Virtools a company that provides 3D Behavioural technology.

http://www.virtools.com

Virtools’ applications allow users not familiar with 3D modeling to quickly and easily add life experience to any 3D object. As an example, using the company’s technology, users can experience the shopping behavior of a typical consumer in a supermarket or visualize the ergonomics of a driver as he or she drives a car through a city.

Applications for this technology include Games, VR/Simulation, Marketing/Multimedia, Education and Technology.

The Virtools Physics Pack, which was developed in conjunction with Havok (using Havok’s physics engine), includes drag/drop behaviours to integrate physics technology for real-time 3D behaviours that can be implemented by non-programmers.

Details about Havok can be found at:

http://www.havok.com

New month new topic.

Lets start off with some trivia for those people who enjoy puzzle solving.

A Planar Graph is a graph that can be embedded in a plane so that no edges intersect.

This puzzle allows you to experiment with planar graphs by rearranging the vertices (blue dots) so that none of the edges intersect …

Warning this may be addictive Check it out at

http://www.planarity.net/

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