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ICYMI: Obstacle-avoiding UAV, smartwatch whys and more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-421365{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-421365, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-421365{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-421365").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: A new wearable screen that runs Android while strapped to your wrist is out, but we can't help but make fun of it. MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab created a UAV that can fly through a forest safely with an obstacle avoidance algorithm. And a prototype gun for objects lets users whip together large-scaled 3D designs using run-of-the-mill packing tape.
A musical scratchpad on your iPhone
I've built a recording studio on my iPhone ... kind of. It doesn't output production-quality mixes -- or anything close -- but it makes a great scratchpad for recording and developing musical ideas. It didn't take any special effort, just a few apps which I've found really handy, especially when working with acoustic instruments. Tuning up First, I've been using GuitarToolkit ($9.99US in the App Store) for tuning, general metronome needs and finding chord phrasings. There are dozens of apps available with similar features, and I haven't tried enough of them to fairly judge merits (if you know of an outstanding app, let's hear about it in the comments!). I grabbed GuitarToolkit when it was a little narrower of a field, and it's been a sturdy, steadily-improving app which has never given me reason to look around. Read on for the rest of the "mobile studio" ...
We're gonna need a bigger DS
Big hands cramping up when you play DS? Tiny screens getting you down? Then build a bigger one with tablet PCs, like this enterprising DS owner did. Known only as "loopy," this crafty individual put together the whole thing out of spare parts, but estimates that the rig might cost as much as $600 for imitators who start with nothing. We've got a video of loopy's creation in action after the jump, and after watching it, we've got a massive urge to break out Kirby Canvas Curse again ... but now, our screens will seem so tiny and inadequate, and our Kirby so insignificant.
