Automatic 3D Reconstructions from Photographs

http://paulbourke.net/miscellaneous/areconstruction/

Becsüld meg!

Asteroid Mining

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-24/news/31390676_1_asteroids-precious-metals-solar-system
Yep, that's the next big thing.
Mining one asteroid, people could have more platina than ever existed on Earth.
Time to buy some shares.

MatterPort

http://matterport.com/#video
Check out this video!
With only a simple device, you can walk around your room, and create a 3D model of it.
The music is nice as well. (Fits the "shut up and take my money" effect.)

Homemade 3D printing

http://www.indiegogo.com/veloso3dprinter

For 4000$, now you can have your homemade 3D printer.

A few years back we talked about laptops - when they were not yet mainstream -,

and we envisioned a future, where advertisements are full of happy people, holding notebooks in their hands, lying in parks, and so on.

The same happened with 3D printing: now it's starting to be accessible to anyone.

JavaScript Pathfinder

If you would like to immerge in A* algorithm (A-star), this page is has a wonderful visual approach:

http://qiao.github.com/PathFinding.js/visual/

And this is worth checking out as well:

http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/Heuristics.html

Very easy way to understand A-star path finding algorithm with Manhattan, Chebyshev and Euclidean distance.

(All those you can try out with the Javascript version.)

Map Creation with Polygons

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/