Mario seems pretty casual about literally taking over the minds of sentient beings just so he can grab a couple of moons to power his flying hat. It’s a pretty major invasion of privacy to ENTER SOMEONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS without even asking them first – especially when you consider things from their point of view.
[Dorkly]
Update: Thinkgeek is currently selling most of its plush bouquets at around 50% off!
For Valentine’s Day this year, Thinkgeek has launched a bunch of new geeky plush bouquets that are sure to please geeks of all ages and fandoms. My favorite is the one featuring Star Wars characters, but there are plenty of other ones to choose from, Check ’em all out below!
In this comic from Julia Lepetit from Dorkly, the artist takes a look at 5 ways that being a adult is just like playing a RPG.
[Source: Dorkly]
The sound reactive LED masks come in 8 awesome designs, are easily wearable, foldable and adjustable, and transcribe any sort of music and any type of rhythm into amazing Illuminations. Check them out in action in the video above, and if you’re interested in getting one, help fund the project over at kickstarter right here. As I’m writing this, the project has already raised over $200,000 on an initial funding goal of $15,000.
From The Super Zeros:
Are you ready to power up to the next level on unsuspecting citizens? LET’S GO!!
Whatever the trend for the latest gadgets at the annual CES event in Vegas, there’ll always be room for humongous televisions. Though that’s only just literally the case with Samsung’s star prototype: a 146” television screen.
Dubbed “The Wall”, there’s no promise of it showing up as a consumer model during 2018: instead it’s currently just a concept model designed to make a visual impact at the show. If and when it shows up, you’ll need a wall space more than 10 feet wide.
Sheer size aside, what makes the TV interesting is that it doesn’t use the most common display methods of today, namely LCD and OLED. Instead the image comes from Micro-LED, which is effectively a smaller version of the billboards used to display video ads in Times Square and the like.
Each 0.8 millimeter ‘pixel’ in the screen is made of a batch of colored LEDs that can switch on or off and combine to give the pixel the required color. That means there’s no need for a backlight. The tiny LEDs use a combination of quantum dots and inorganic self-emissive diodes, which in practical terms means none of the excessive heat you might fear in what’s effectively a collection of millions of tiny lightbulbs.
Despite the size of the screen, the smallness of the pixels means that as long as you’re sitting far enough away to be able to see the full screen (around six feet), the individual pixels aren’t discernible.
Samsung also showed off two TVs that are more likely to go on sale this year: 85” and 65” models with an “8K” resolution (7680 x 4320). While there’s no real prospect of widespread 8K content any time soon, the company claims the sets can upscale content from as low-resolution as standard definition.
From Dario Brescianini:
We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. The trajectory generator is capable of generating approximately 500’000 trajectories per second that guide the multirotor vehicle from any initial state, i.e. position, velocity and attitude, to any desired final state in a given time. In this video, we show an example application that requires the evaluation of a large number of trajectories in real time.
The multirotor vehicle used in the demonstration is an omni-directional eight-rotor vehicle. Its unique actuator configuration gives it full force and torque authority in all three dimensions, allowing it to fly novel maneuvers.
