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cartoon monkey Google’s Toontastic 3D App Is Funtastic

Google's Toontastic 3D app lets anyone create 3D cartoons. Select from dozens of characters, customize them, or draw your own. Then simply move them around on a screen and animate and narrate your own cartoons. Create shows, stories, reports, family photo albums, or presentations.

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Pamela Rentz
New Biometric Security with 3D Fingerprint Scans

Researchers at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center are working on a security solution that’s similar to medical ultrasound imaging. The technology is a tiny ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that can measure a 3D image of your finger’s surface, along with a shallow layer of tissue underneath.

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Pamela Rentz
Google's Online Art Collection Adds 3D Viewing

In 2011 the Google Cultural Institute launched the Art Project, an online portal to high-resolution images of art found in major museums. As part of its latest addition, hundreds of objects from six prominent museums have been scanned in 3D and are now available to study online—in three dimensions.

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