YoVille, the popular Facebook virtual world, has partnered with MTV to help promote this weekend’s Video Music Awards. The campaign involves a number of integration points including custom MTV gear and items, a party at the virtual lounge “Sky Nightclub”, and an MTV VMA Room Contest. The promotion is one of the most integrated campaigns that we’ve seen on a Facebook virtual world and it’s a trend that we’d expect to continue.

I personally found the MTV VMA Room Contest to be one of the most entertaining promotions. Users are encouraged to design their room as stylishly as possible and…

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A simple panning motion can add impact to the already-dramatic effect of time lapse photography. To accomplish this, frugal cinematographers sometimes build [Rube Goldberg] contraptions from clock motors, VCR parts or telescope tracking mounts. Hack a Day reader [Stephan Martin] has assembled a clever bargain-basement system using an Arduino-driven stepper motor and a reduction gear system built up from LEGO Technic parts, along with some Processing code on a host PC to direct the show.
While the photography is a bit crude (using just a webcam), [Stephan’s] underlying motion control setup might interest budding filmmakers with [Ron Fricke] aspirations but Top Ramen budgets. What’s more, unlike…

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Among the courses at this year’s SIGGRAPH (an annual technical conference and showcase of the latest in computer graphics research) was an introduction to 3D scanning that covers all the bases: mathematical foundations, two different build-your-own hardware approaches, and how to process and render the resulting datasets. The simplest of these methods requires nothing more than a webcam, halogen light source, and a stick! The presenters have assembled all the course materials on a top-notch web site featuring slide shows, complete source code, and an extensive round-up with links to both commercial and homebrew 3D scanning gear.
SIGGRAPH and 3D scanning have been highlighted…

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Fox Inked Gear: Riding open airs is a interwoven liaison, and sometimes unreliable if the reins of the road and appropriate guard are overlooked. Because of this, movements are put into finding that those who cater the routes will have right and sufficient tribute for themselves to keep them and other route exploiters out of harm’s manner. The perils posed on travelers are especially serious if the vehicle in inquiry is either a bike or a bike, whatsoever of which exact residue at all times.The Flush of Rallying a BikeRiding a motorbike is a rightfully throbbing go through. There is…

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Parking is probably the easiest thing to learn about riding.Nevertheless, there are a great number of riders who areviolating it. Parking is not a driving skill to master. However, if you takeit for granted, chances are, you may cause scatches, bumps ortraffic jam. The rule is so simple that you can even use yourcommon sense alone. Of course, you have to park where it islegal and safe. You can be guided by the signs, signals, curbmarkings, warnings and the likes. There are important pointers that a rider must know aboutparking and these are the following: .Place the transmission in first…

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