5 Kinect Telepresence
Four Kinects capture a 3d image of you. The viewer’s eyes are watched by another Kinect. Video:
Ponoko’s Fabrication Library
Each product type has an ‘app’ (chairs, boats, whatever). These are created by professional designer (read: CAD gods). Open it up, customize anything you want to, and then buy. Sample apps.
This could be big. A store for all things. (Assuming they move to bits and rather than atoms in terms of delivery.)
DemonEye
Essentially, a targeting widget – the device incorporates a laser rangefinder, digital compass, GPS and mini computer to calculate target locations rapidly and accurately. Using commercial off-the-shelf components, the DemonEye prototype cost $1,000.
Cool part? Hacked together by West Pointers while in school. Picked up for further development at $100k.
Pix4D
Submit “raw images and their approximate GPS geo tags as provided by” your UAV to their cloud service, and they’ll return an elevation model, KML, and image (full version is BIG):
Physical Keygen
A dude with a free, text-based 3d modeling software library, a RepRap, and some locks has put together the basics for a physical keygen. Basically, you can download the 3d models, and then brute force your way to entry.
The goal here is to generate working house keys by inputing the key code of the lock into a parametric OpenSCAD model.
To generate new keys, you can just edit the last line of the file and enter in the key code for your key. If the code isn’t written on the key, you can measure the height of each bit and compare to the numbers in the Root Depth column on the aforementioned pin depth site. Perhaps more nefariously, you could implement something like SNEAKEY to generate key codes without physically measuring the key.