Not your daddy’s 3D

3D is making a comeback. With new commercials during the Super Bowl and a full-length episode of NBC’s Chuck on Monday, 3D is coming to TV.

DreamWorks Animation will show a preview for its upcoming “Monsters vs. Aliens” in 3D during the Super Bowl Sunday, February 1. In addition, another spot will highlight Sobe Life Water energy drinks.  The advertising block will air at the end of the second quarter of the Super Bowl.

Some 150 million pairs of 3D glasses are being distributed at nearly 30,000 Pepsi/Sobe Life Water displays around the country.

According to an article in PC Magazine, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg says that the studios films will be made in 3D from “here on out.” The films use a technology called InTru3D, which was developed by a partnership with Intel. Another big change from traditional 3D is the effect isn’t the result of red and blue filtering, which often leaves colors washed out. Using ColorCode, images appear normal to the naked eye but slight variations in the coloring of the image produces the 3D effect when viewed through the appropriate lenses.

It should be a treat. Grab your glasses and a drink and settle in for the game Sunday.

It’s 3D

We’ve got 3D movies why not 3D printers?  Okay, so one really doesn’t have anything to do with the other, but they’re both pretty fun, right? It’s much more difficult to develop your own at home 3D movie (especially without those special glasses) but at home 3D printing has come a little bit closer.  At least now the printer will fit in a home.

The Alaris 30 is really one of the first some what desk top sized 3D printer.  Basically you can print models when ever you like, even with moving parts!  It’s really set for office work and concept type of stuff, but personal model creations are never out of the running. Once the price is released I’m sure it’ll be a bit too much for me, but a kid can dream right?

Present Day Picasso

Paint has come a long way from paint brush pens to Squeezable 3D options and mess less Color Wonder stuff options continue to exceed all of our most basic needs.  But what about us tech people?

Well, aside from the all out professional drawing boards and photoshops of the world a new concept for digital painting brings all the wonders of the real thing to the screen.

Virtuo, a digital toolset could help all of us beginners get a feel for the art without the mess (and we’d look a lot cooler than using that color wonder stuff).  The concept is basically a digital pallet with pens, brushes, the whole deal, just no need for paper.  Use real painting skills on a less than real canvas.

Too bad it’s just a concept now, but it still look pretty sweet.