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India’s first female Olympic gymnast Dipa Karmakar didn’t medal — but she won hearts anyway.

Dipa Karmakar didn’t win any medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, but she did something far better: She inspired the world.

On Sunday, people from across the globe saw the Indian gymnast place just shy 0.15 points from winning an Olympic bronze medal in the women’s vault gymnastic competition.

Karmakar, India’s first female Olympic gymnast, was one of two female gymnasts at the Olympic Games to perform the Produnova vault, or “the vault of death” — a move Simone Biles won’t even do.

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The Augmented Reality Sandbox 

The Augmented Reality Sandbox (orginally developed by researchers at UC Davis) lets
users sculpt mountains, canyons and rivers, then fill them with water
or even create erupting volcanoes. This version of the device at UCLA was built by Gary Glesener
using
off-the-shelf parts and good ol’ playground sand.

Any shape made in
the sandbox is detected by an Xbox Kinect sensor and processed with open
source software. It is then projected as a color-coded contour map onto the sand.