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Armin Heinrich has created an application for use on the iPhone called “I Am Rich”.  What’s it do?  Absolutely nothing except put a glowing red gem on your screen.  Oh, and it also shows that you are either a total douchebag or a complete idiot because the damn thing costs $1000.

Somebody apparently didn’t think it was all that cool of an app, however, as it is now gone from the iTunes App Store.  So, did the creator make any money? Read more…

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Geeked-Out: Microsoft’s Unwrap Mosaics

by Chad Lakkis on August 14, 2008 at 4:01 am

The reaction I had when I saw this video could easily be summarized as a holy shit moment. Microsoft’s Unwrap Mosaics is an amazing application with the ability to fully translate video into 3D model surfaces through the use of 2D-to-2D transformation, texture maps, and object-space occlusion masks. Sound complicated? This is something you definitely have to see to believe.

Hit the jump for a video demonstration of Microsoft’s Unwrap Mosaics. Read more…

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