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I Played Minecraft With Microsoft’s HoloLens, And It Was Pretty Awesome
When Microsoft said you’d be able to make Minecraft worlds appear in your living room with its new HoloLens headset, perhaps you squealed in glee. Or perhaps you wrote it off as smoke and mirrors — not reality. Guess what? I just played it. Everything you saw on stage is real.
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Julie: A Windows Phone 7 Handset That Never Was
Prototypes come and prototypes go — and some, like yesterday’s WALT prototype, get put up on eBay for silly money. Then they vanish again. That appears to have been the fate of a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 prototype that appeared briefly on eBay yesterday as well.
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A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit
Space suits are insanely cool. Except this one. This prototype hamster ball suit was designed by engineers at John Hopkins and actually presented to NASA in 1964. The engineers claimed astronauts would be more mobile with this thing on.
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Underwater buoys for stealthy tidal power
More clever science, with a British company developing an underwater buoy tech to harness tidal power from 50m beneath the surface. The system doesn’t capture the to and fro of the water so much as the change in pressure forced upon the buoys as the water rises and falls around it. They’re claiming half a…