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Ok, so there are some who love to get their hands dirty and create something physical, and there are those who are enamored with the virtual world living in the silicon of our computers.  These two worlds join together in this bit of technology that offers another way to save the foam cutter from extinction, and gets those cad monkeys using their hands:

Have you seen other cool tech applicable to our profession?  Drop a line in the comments below and let us know about it.

Did you miss part one?  Catch up here.
Did you miss part two?  Catch up here.

Imagine you’re on some sandy beach with a client.  Oh wait, that never happens…

OK imagine you’re on an east coast site in the dead of winter with your client.  You’ve got yourself some new fangled phone tablet thingy you barely know how to turn on, but you know it’s got all the latest tech.  GPS, camera, compass, and accelerometer.  With a push of a button and a little magic imagine handing this over to your client and watching a smile appear as they realize why they hired you. 

In the not so distant future we’ll be showing our clients their multimillion dollar building designs while standing on their unbuilt site.  They’ll be able to walk around it, look up or down at it, and grin from ear to ear as they fall in love with the design.  (Note the new fangled phone tablet thingy doesn’t replace a good design. : )

Have you seen other cool tech applicable to our profession?  Drop a line in the comments below and let us know about it.

Did you miss part one?  Catch up here.

Pay attention people there’s some neat stuff going on out there.  In the next few years (or tomorrow if you choose) we’ll be presenting our designs and concepts in a whole new way.

Part 1:  “A la peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a webcam and a 3D model.”

In a world where architects are struggling to keep up with transitions from the drafting board to cad to 3d modeling along comes another leap in communicating our design.  Check out this video from a company called ARmedia.  (AR Stands for “augmented reality” if you haven’t heard this term by now you should.  It’s a phrase about to be made very popular.)

Have you seen other cool tech applicable to our profession?  Drop a line in the comments below and let us know about it.