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This is a prototype of the Penny Shooter. A card the size of a standard business card in which you can load 10 US pennies and fire them off in rapid succession. For more info and links to the design files if you want to build your own visit cardnetics.com It is also on Thingiverse www.thingiverse.com

Here's a review of Business Card Reader app for the iphone. This app essentially uses the iphone camera to scan business cards, which then are inputting into the iphone's Address Book. $5.99 SHAPE Services itunes.apple.com ************************************* Subscribe to the youtube channel for my next video! Follow me on Twitter for the inside scoop on our videos and general Mac/iphone/ipod tidbits! twitter.com ***************************************

You can find the application running here. There's also a marker for you to print in lieu of one my real business cards. www.burtonposey.com The augmented reality avatar concept for the business card provides a way to provide potential clients and associates a way to get past the logo and brand and get to know the people. You could just as easily include hobbies or little known facts for yourself or an employee. This is an idea I'd been kicking around in my head since February. I wanted to find a way that a company could deliver a catchy identity for themselves. Avatars, be it the Mii's on the Nintendo Wii, or an Xbox Live Avatar, have become extensions of the people who use them. Special thanks to the Papervision team for the recent rev 911 of Papervision. With it, I was able to resolve issues I had been having for several months that prevented my avatar's animations from importing properly. -Character was modeled, unwrapped, rigged, weighted in Maya by myself. Animations (idle, wave) done by Jason Barnes. -Texture created in Photoshop (Ambient Occlusion maps overlayed from Maya) by myself

Pringles-can lens extender produces dazzling ultra close-ups for peanuts. Get the PDF for this project here: blog.makezine.com More great projects at: www.makezine.com

National Geographic Photographer Nick Nichols and Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, on a new era in photography.

Create the illusion of a miniaturized world with this photographic technique. Get the PDF for this project here: blog.makezine.com More great projects at www.makezine.com

Mark Apsolon covers various Video and Photography light kits including Cool Flo Fluorescent, Tungsten / Halogen, Strobe, Continuous and more. All the kits are available at www.tubetape.com Color temperature differences are also covered in this video.