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02-23-2016, 09:04 PM
Google robot turns your selfies into line-drawn art
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BARCELONA — This year's Mobile World Congress (http://mashable.com/category/mwc2016/) is a huge sea smartphones (yay!), networking gear (meh) and people wearing VR headsets (uh...), but in between all the suited-up business folks and sweaty, stinky reporters was one booth that had something really charming.
At the Android Experiments tent (thankfully, located outdoors), Google brought out developers from its Creative Lab (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Creative+Lab&hl=en) to show off a few of the weirder apps that people can create with Android.
See also: Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge bring back all the features the GS6 left out (http://mashable.com/2016/02/21/samsung-galaxy-s7-edge/)
One such experiment was the IOIO. After you take a selfie, the image data is converted into triangulated coordinates for the triangle-shaped robot to plot out on paper. Armed with the plot points, the robot then gets to work drawing your special selfie portrait using its attached ink pen. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/23/google-android-selfie-robot/)
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BARCELONA — This year's Mobile World Congress (http://mashable.com/category/mwc2016/) is a huge sea smartphones (yay!), networking gear (meh) and people wearing VR headsets (uh...), but in between all the suited-up business folks and sweaty, stinky reporters was one booth that had something really charming.
At the Android Experiments tent (thankfully, located outdoors), Google brought out developers from its Creative Lab (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Creative+Lab&hl=en) to show off a few of the weirder apps that people can create with Android.
See also: Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge bring back all the features the GS6 left out (http://mashable.com/2016/02/21/samsung-galaxy-s7-edge/)
One such experiment was the IOIO. After you take a selfie, the image data is converted into triangulated coordinates for the triangle-shaped robot to plot out on paper. Armed with the plot points, the robot then gets to work drawing your special selfie portrait using its attached ink pen. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/23/google-android-selfie-robot/)
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