New Zealand engineers created the SPIKE portable 3D scanner , which uses a “augmented reality” as visualization: the measurement results are superimposed directly on the image of the smartphone camera. The device is attached to the back wall of the smartphone; Inside there is a laser, a compass and a Bluetooth transmitter that interacts with a phone camera and GPS. A laser with a resolution of 8 inches type 905 NM weighs only 100 grams and works at a distance of 2 to 200 meters.

The most interesting graphic novels for the holidays A long series of weekends is coming, which means that we all have a lot of free time, which you want to spend with pleasure. Comics, which have already ceased to be funny for geeks, are great for this. Look at Me has collected the 10 most interesting and noteworthy series of graphic novels that have been published recently.

Valve decided to make a gift to her players in honor of Christmas. The LEFT 4 DEAD 2 zombie-player has become free. The game is available for download in Steam . To download, you need to go to your profile and click the "Install the game" button. The duration of the promotion will end today, but after downloading the game will be available at any time. In addition, Valve provides 50 % discounts for recruiting Complete Pack.

The best blogs about technology, media, science and design Fast bloggers no longer complain about fashion weeks, but blogging remains a convenient way to share their opinion-they are used by designers, programmers and scientists who write posts for Medium and other online platforms.

In the new section, Look At Me Chokes the most popular find on the Internet for a day and talks in detail about the "lyca" site, meme, picture, video or service. The cult sitcom "Friends" can be continued in 2014, writes OK magazine! With reference to your own source. According to a friend with a source situation, since in 2014 the series turns 20 years old, this is an ideal reason for discussing a new project with all the actors of “Friends”.

Google has artificially lowered the ranking in search results for the RapGenius website, writes TechCrunch . The sanction stems from a recent scandal in which it was revealed that a music lyric website was asking popular bloggers to post "unnatural" links to the lyric page for Justin Bieber's latest album.

African physicists have created a laser, the beam of which can be shaped and directed digitally, writes the media service of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Making a laser itself is not very difficult: you need several mirrors, an energy source and a generating optical resonator that directs light to the mirror. The difficulty lies in the low intensity of the light beam itself: most often it is quite difficult to focus it, and the laser power depends on focusing.

The Viola Organista was designed based on the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci by the Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki. The creation of the instrument, based on a 15th-century model, took three years. On the outside, the hybrid of harpsichord, organ and viol da gamba resembles a regular grand piano, but inside it contains 61 strings. Unlike a classical instrument, the strings are not struck by hammers covered with felt, but by four rotating drums covered with horsehair.

The Bitcoin Grant company helps organizations they like with hundreds of thousands of dollars, writes Wired magazine . They used to finance organizations that were developing cryptocurrency: last year, after a short conversation about the future with the head of Avalon, they transferred him $100,000 worth of bitcoins. Back then, Avalon developed and sold Bitcoin miners, computers that help run a global open-source software system.

At the LeWeb technology conference in Paris this month, Google CTO Scott Huffman outlined how the Internet giant plans to develop its search engine. TechCrunch writes about this. According to him, the company is going to turn Google into a personal assistant and consultant. At the same time, the search experience should fundamentally change: instead of writing your query in the search bar, the user, says Huffman, will more often “communicate” with devices that may not have a display.

The Dogecoin cryptocurrency, created based on the Siba-In-Inu and Font Comic Sans, was attacked. The attackers managed to hack virtual wallets and carry away 21 million “dog” coins with them, which is $ 12,000 in physical money. According to TechCrunch , the incident happened on December 25. This became known from messages at the DOGES.com forum. Users stated that their Dogewallet wallets have come back. Dogewallet management, in turn, confirmed the fact of fraud on Reddit .

We have written about “Paw”, a device for monitoring and analyzing the environment (with its help you can determine humidity, air temperature, the level of electromagnetic radiation and the amount of nitrates in products) more than once in various contexts. But just the other day, on December 23, the team released a new product - Lapka Bam. Announced in August, it's another in a series of devices that let you measure your body's alcohol content (and share it with others who care).

Brazilian designer Marcelo Ribeiro created a puzzle in the form of a classic Leica camera body for the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The 1200 ISO blog writes about this. The puzzle is a “plastic poster” with cut-out camera parts and assembly instructions. It is assumed that the poster should be “disassembled” into parts, after which the camera model should be assembled from the resulting plates.

Employees of creative industries about the specialties of the future In the section “Profession”, Look at ME tells (how difficult it is to guess) about the professions that appear in the modern world. Sometimes these are completely new specialties, which so far do not even have a Russian -speaking analogue of the name, sometimes - these are modifications of old with the introduction of new technologies.

We continue to summarize the year We summarize the results of the year: in early June, the fifth publication - Wonderzine appeared at the LOOK At Media publishing house. The editors said she was doing a "magazine for girls who do not read women's magazines." The launch of Wonderzine coincided with a general mood-the world has not been masculine for a long time, but in 2013 it became female.