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Tablet prices in freefall reacting to Kindle Fire
Are the competitors now offering great bargains, or were the originals priced as rip offs? According to sources talking to ...
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Autodesk acquires T-Splines modeling technology
The first major advancement in CAD geometry since NURBS has become popular in industrial, commercial, and architectural design. The fate ...
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JPR report: 80% of smartphones will have stereo 3D cameras and screens by 2015
A variety of vendors will compete for this rapidly growing space. Stereoscopic 3D in mobile devices will have many applications ...
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Luxion releases updated plug-ins for SolidWorks, Rhino, Creo, Pro/Engineer, SketchUp
The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated ...
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Autodesk’s year of living acquisitively
All divisions—including their new consumer products group—went shopping in 2011. Here’s our list of companies and technologies now part of ...
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Quantum dot filter displays are the next big thing
Color purity and range have plateaued; new technology from Nanosys promises improvements. By Jon Peddie When LCD displays took over ...
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AutoCAD WS now available on Kindle Fire
The new tablet from Amazon.com runs a hybrid version of the Android operating system, requiring Autodesk to tweak its popular ...
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Mobile makes CAD industry submit to Joy’s Law in 2011
Most CAD vendors released at least one mobile app in 2011, but some felt pressured to do it. Joy’s Law ...
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ArtRage realistic painting comes to iPhone 4
Ambient Design extends its “natural painting” iPad app to the smaller screen. Ambient Design has released ArtRage for iPhone 4, ...
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Santa rides a Norelco again
Re:think Studio re-creates classic TV ad in Modo. People of a certain age can likely recall the Norelco electric razor ...