Archive for October, 2006

What do users do with Solidworks?

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Recently did a search on YouTube to find what was available.

Here are a couple I found interesting

ASSIST: A Shrewd Sketch Interpretation and Simulation Tool

Monday, October 9th, 2006

ASSIST, from MIT, allows a user to sketch simple mechanical systems and see simulations of their drawings in a two-dimensional kinematic simulator.

Details of this and other projects available from Design Rationale at MIT.

Intel and NVIDIA - the speculation continues

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Shares of Nvidia Corp., the world’s third-largest maker of computer- graphics chips, surged 9.8 percent yesterday (4th Oct) on speculation the company may be bought by Intel.

The speculation first started in July, when Intel competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to buy Nvidia rival ATI Technologies Inc. for $5.4 billion. Tom Beermann, an Intel spokesman, said the company doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation.

2006 Simplicity Event

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Royal Philips Electronics is previewing some of its new potential products nearing market readiness that demonstrate its “sense and simplicity” brand positioning at the Philips Simplicity Event in London.

Here’s the Press Release or browse through some of the items at The Simplicity Event

Here’s just a couple of the items

Drag & Draw – the entire home becomes a virtual canvas for expression and play for young children, thanks to a magic brush, a magic eraser, a magic wand, and a laser projection bucket.

Drag-Draw

In Touch – an interactive touch-sensitive display as an alternative to voice mails and family messages stuck on the fridge

InTouch

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Online Shape Search Engine

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Yet another online 3D-Search-by-doodling application this one from imaginestics.

3D-Seek, introduced its service at the recent DEMOfall ‘06. (Read more about DEMO - the launchpad for emerging technology )

Using http://3D-Seek.com , users can
simply doodle (draw freehand sketch) a shape of the desired part/product on
the doodle pad or upload a 2D drawing/3D model of a part/product as search
input to locate a supplier who produces that part or has the capability to
manufacture it.

Here’s a snap from their website,

doodleanim

Try it in action live HERE.

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