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About 60 km beyond Lisbon, Óbidos is a popular tourist attraction. Visitors are enchanted by this well preserved medieval village, with quaint white-walled houses enclosed inside a castle. Most of them don't stray beyond the main street (actually, the portuguese name means straight street) with its cafes, beverages, souvenir and bric a brac stores and bookstores. Óbidos plans to be the portuguese version of Hay on Wye, a bookish village, and has a lot of bookstores and an ambitious literary festival. But the best delights of this village can be found only by straying from the main path.

I'm having way too much fun with Display.land, an amazing android/iOS app that enables any user to do 3d captures of objects, environments or scenes. The app is, for now, rather inferior to desktop-based photogrammetry, but it's able to deliver amazing captures, given that it uses smartphones for 3d scanning. So, if you´re interested in experimenting with it, just go to their site and pray that your smartphone is compatible.

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The TIC@Portugal meeting is accepting submissions on topics related to ICT and education. The event will occur simultaneously in several portuguese cities. Cheg their page here: TIC@Portugal.