[caption id="attachment_78" align="alignleft" width="162" caption="Blink 3D"][/caption] Blink 3D®, a platform for creating multi-user Web based virtual worlds and 3D environments has been developped by Pelican Crossing. Blink 3D can be used for: Virtual Worlds, Games, Education, Virtual Heritage, Business, Online Stores, Machinima, Product Marketing and 3D chat. Blink 3D is…
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Last update : December 2, 2013 [caption id="attachment_35" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Furbies[/caption] A Furby is an electronic toy made by Tiger Electronics (subsidiary of Hasbro Inc.) which was first shown at the International Toy Fair in 1998. Created by Dave Hampton and Caleb Chung, the classical furby, which is 15 cm tall,…
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[caption id="attachment_75" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="IMVU"][/caption] Founded in 2004 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA, IMVU Inc., is an online destination where young adults meet new people in 3D. In public beta, the company has already reached major milestones including 20 million registered users, 100.000 registered developers, and $1 million…
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[caption id="attachment_41" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Nabaztag André"][/caption] Aujourd'hui mon Nabaztag "Ouschterhues" a accueilli un frère, le Nabaztag "Aenderhues". Signé par André, c’est le premier love graffiti communicant, édité en série limitée. Célèbre pour son Mr. A, l'artiste André, né en Suède en 1971, dessine dès son plus jeune âge sur les murs…
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The growing complexity of the different Internet access possibilities with modems, routers, gateways, set-top-boxes and VoIP-phones makes it more and more difficult for the end-user to configure these equipements. For these reasons a remote management of the end-user devices, called CPE (Customer-premises equipment or customer-provided equipment), by the Internet Service…
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J'ai installé ce week-end le logiciel open-source php OpenNab en mode stand-alone sur mon serveur local wamp2 pour tester les interactions directes avec mon lapin communiquant Nabaztag Ouschterhues. Grâce aux nombreuses contributions fournies par les développeurs et testeurs sur le forum Nabaztag, depuis la version OpenNab 0.02 jusqu'à la version…
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[caption id="attachment_71" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Kaneva"][/caption] The Virtual World of Kaneva is an Internet-based virtual world first released in beta form in mid 2006. It competes with Second Life, IMVU, There, Active Worlds, and the erotic-oriented Red Light Center. It is developed by Atlanta-based startup Kaneva, using the Kaneva Game Platform.…
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OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications, developed by Google, and released November 1, 2007 (version 0.6). Based on HTML and JavaScript, as well as the Google Gadgets framework, OpenSocial includes four APIs for social software applications to access data and core…
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Last update : September 1, 2020 [caption id="attachment_14487" align="alignleft" width="240"] Tux Droid[/caption] Today I preordered a Tux Droid, a wireless programmable robot specifically designed for the Linux platform, a smart companion providing a new way to access the digital world without sitting in front of a computer. Looking as a…
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Aujourd'hui j'ai reçu mon Nabaztag (signifie lièvre en arménien), un lapin communiquant connecté à Internet par ondes Wi-Fi (802.11b). Créé par Rafi Haladjian et Olivier Mével en 2005, il est produit par la societé française Violet. Il communique avec son utilisateur en émettant des messages vocaux, lumineux ou en remuant…
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