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- SurGe 6.5 (Windows)
- SurGe is a computer program which enables to generate a surface as an interpolation approximation function of two independent variables; implements an interpolation / approximation method called ABOS which produces a surface comparable to a surface created by Kriging or Minimum curvature method.
- Tags: Surface, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- The future of... concierges
- Traveling for work can take you to little-known cities, but that doesn't mean you need to wander the streets when you're looking for the closest copy center, train station or restaurant. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das visits Microsoft to learn how it's multi-touch computer, Surface can point you in the...
- Tags: Multi-touch Computer, Business Travel, Hotel, Concierge, Microsoft, Surface, Sumi Das
- Videos 2009-08-24
- Peeling stickers inspire new path for stretchable electronics
- For some, there's inspiration to be found in unremarkable daily minutia. A team of researchers who studied stickers peeling from windows say that what they've observed could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. [caption id="attachment_1595" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Delamination demonstration -...
- Tags: Surface, Team, Window, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Electronics, Team Management, Construction, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Incinerate 1.1 (Windows)
- It is 2074. Astronomers from around the world are watching an asteroid crash into the surface of Mars leaving a huge crater. Clouds of dust and vapor hide the surface of the planet for several long months. Communication with all Martian research stations is lost. When the clouds clear away,...
- Tags: Surface, Planet, Microsoft Windows, Spaceship, Stars Ashes Game Development, Geothermal Unit
- Software downloads 2009-04-12
- SmartUnfold For Inventor 1.0 (Windows)
- It is a Inventor Addin or plugin. This Addin is used to unfold surface inside Inventor. It handles double curvatures surfaces. Handle ruled surfaces like cone/cylinders, ruled surface. When unfolding multi surfaces, the unfolded contours will be aligned as if you unfold a single surface. It unfold the curves/points with...
- Tags: Surface, Solid3dTech Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-02-13
- Tag: The Power of Paint 1.1 (Windows)
- Tag: The Power of Paint is a free, first-person puzzle platformer which focuses on the players' ability to modify their environment as they see fit, simply by painting it. Enjoy a unique and emergent gameplay experience, as you traverse each highly stylized level, using your endless supply of paint and...
- Tags: Surface, Tag Team, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-02-04
- Point Cloud 1.0 (Windows)
- Point Cloud is a reverse engineering software which offers the ability to reconstruct the geometry of an object from a point cloud that describes it. Point Cloud can drape a surface over a point cloud or wrap a mesh around a point cloud. Draping a surface is similar to laying...
- Tags: Surface, Microsoft Windows, Mesh, Cloud, SYCODE
- Software downloads 2009-01-02
- Apple's 3D OS X interface unveiled
- A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make "better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements," according to AppleInsider. The most...
- Tags: 3D, Surface, Apple Inc., AppleInsider, Apple Mac OS X, Construction, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Microsoft Student Technology Day (2 of 2)
- The first half of the day after lunch, with the Q&A session which followed shortly after, and demos of Microsoft Surface and developing with it and how Windows 7 ties into it. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Startups, Enterprise, London, Surface, Windows 7
- Image galleries 2008-10-03
- Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2)
- The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7
- Image galleries 2008-10-03
- RhinoResurf for Rhino 4.0 1.0.84 (Windows)
- RhinoResurf for Rhino is a plug-in which gives Rhino the ability to reconstruct the geometry represented by NURB surface of an object from a mesh or point cloud which describes it.RhinoResurf for Rhino can drape a surface over a point cloud with specified tolerance. Draping a surface is similar to...
- Tags: Surface, Object, RESURF, Drape Direction, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- Unfold Surface For AutoCAD 1 (Windows)
- Unfold Surface For AutoCAD is an AutoCAD plugin that can unfold any developable surface to a flat 2D surface. Besides, it can also handle surfaces with double curvatures like hull surface for ship. User can also select points or curves that are on the surface to be unfolded to get...
- Tags: Surface, AutoCAD, Solid3dTech Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- Images: Phoenix set to land on Mars
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Phoenix Technologies, CNET News.com, Surface, Earth, NASA, It'
- Image galleries 2008-05-22
- Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?
- Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile clients, keeps delivering powerful desktop hardware, a robust OS...
- Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Surface, Desktop Strategy, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- MacBook touch concepts
- Gizmodo reader David McMillan has whipped up some amazing MacBook Touch concepts, based on one of Apple's newly revealed double sided panel patents. The concepts use a transparent multi-touch display that can work as a control surface on two sides, both while the device is open and closed....
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Surface, Concept, Keyboards, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Photos: First images from Saturn moon close encounter
- According to raw data, the Cassini probe passed through a geyser and came close to the surface of the Saturn moon Enceladus. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Surface, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-03-13
- Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface
- Microsoft's touch-sensitive tabletop is about to get a spherical makeover. Microsoft officials have been talking up the company's plans to introduce more consumer-focused form factors of its Surface multi-touch tabletop. They've said future iterations of Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch technology will be available as part of next-generation PCs,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Form Factor, Surface, Games, Construction, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Microsoft: The desktop PC isn't dead
- The desktop PC is not dead; it's in the midst of a five- to ten-year-long makeover. So says Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, who presented on February 26 to attendees of the Goldman Sachs Tech Investment Symposium. (At an investor conference,...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Desktop Computer, Surface, Desktops, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?
- The demo applications Microsoft has shown so far for its Surface touch-tabletop system --for ordering drinks, sharing photos by dragging them and finger painting -- have left me cold. But at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Microsoft is discussing and demonstrating some different Surface application prototypes...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Wine, Surface, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- New oil-repelling material from MIT
- MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup. Their oil-repelling, or 'oleophobic' material, is using specially prepared microfibers,...
- Tags: Surface, Droplet, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Polymer, Molecule, Fiber, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
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