links for 2009-08-16

Medical AR vision video depicting the ability to see 'into' a body using AR overlays. Not unlike MS 'future vision of personal health'.

"Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them. We're hoping that together we can create a community of people who create and share designs freely, so that all can benefit from them."

Sterling comments on applications for AR by governments – surely something that would go disastrously wrong!

An entertaining article about 40 things about computing technology that have become redundant or simply don't exist any more.

AR t-shirts using FLARToolkit