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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 36: Now Available in 3-D
by Tracy V. Wilson | January 25, 2012
The ongoing resurgence in 3-D movies … it’s a gift and a curse. Or maybe just a curse. At least, that’s what I thought until seeing “Hugo” and its use of 3-D to make the movie more beautiful. We recorded this episode before “Hugo” racked up all kinds of Academy Award nominations, but the episode published almost immediately after. Funny thing, that.
A few weeks ago, a TechStuff fan posted a link to a YouTube video that managed to scare the pants off me (which is why I’m required by HR to wear, at minimum, two pairs of pants when I come to work). The claim in the video was that an inventor had discovered a way to perceive 3-D images on a television screen without the use of active 3-D glasses. Active glasses have shutters in them that open and close faster than we can see. The shutters synchronize with images on the television screen — each eye only sees one set of images. Your brain combines the two sets of images into a single image that appears to have the dimension of depth. The invention in the video seemed to achieve this by making you blink your eyes in sync with the television screen.
As the era of 3-D television descends upon us, television and game system manufacturers are playing it safe and warning customers about potential problems they might have while adding some depth to their television experience. One such manufacturer is Samsung. The company released a health hazard list regarding its 3-D television systems.
Tune in today at 1 p.m. Eastern to watch our analysis of the Consumer Electronics Show. What turned heads on the show floor? Which technologies are going to dominate in 2010 (hint: a big one begins with 3 and ends in D)? And is it a good idea to hire booth babes to hawk your tech?
We’ll also look at other news stories unrelated to CES. Is the tech industry emerging from the recession? Why are Nexus One owners upset at Google and how is the company responding? We’ll give you the full story today.
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I found this cool app this morning — VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi wrote about a new desktop utility called BumpTop that turns your desktop into a 3-D environment. You can pile files on top of one another, pin them to the walls and more to keep things organized. Honestly, I’ve only played with it for a few minutes, but it’s extremely cool.
It all started with a guy named Anand Agarawala who decided to create a new sort of desktop for his master’s thesis. When he graduated, he decided to turn it into a regular business. And yesterday, Takahashi said, the product released for the first time. It’s out for Windows, and Linux and Mac versions are coming.
BumpTop lets you drag and drop files on top of one another, much like you might do on your desk to keep things straight.
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