Currently in the process of completing his PhD at the University of Surrey, UK, Zdenek Kalal is working on a self-improving real-time vision algorithm that can track, learn, and detect objects in a real-time video stream. [Via Wired]
The current practical use of antibiotics to treat infection has created drug-resistant mutations in common bacteria. Amoxicillin and other types of commonly-used antibiotics–which work by affecting the DNA of microorganisms, thereby blocking their ability to multiply–have grown increasingly less effective in the last few decades as their use has become more widespread. In a recent […]
Kinected Conference is a cool MS Kinect-Based Video-Conferencing System that is currently being developed at MIT. What we can do if the screen in videoconference rooms can turn into an interactive display? With Kinect camera and sound calibration system, we can easily access the spatially calibrated depth and audio information. [Vimeo]
[Source: TJOT | Via Geekosystem]
Yikes! That animatronic human eye mechanism sure is creepy! It was built by Dan Thompson of sFx company Visionary Effects. [Via Laughing Squid]
Harvard researchers believe firefighters could one day control and even extinguish fires using a gun that fires electricity. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Department of Energy, investigated what’s said to be a 200-year-old observation that electricity can affect a flame’s shape, a point that hasn’t previously been the […]
Festo, a company we’ve featured here on [GaS] in the past for their extraordinary work on various forms of strange robotic organisms, is back with a new video showcasing their latest toy: A bionic bird that can take-off, fly, and land just like a real bird. Check it out! [Via Toxel]
On Tuesday I wrote about a problem with Google Chrome not (consistently) displaying Flash content since an upgrade to version 10. We don’t have a confirmed diagnosis or a cure, but we do have something of a workaround. Thanks to everyone who replied — there are certainly plenty of us experiencing the same problem — […]
I can’t tell you how often I’m all dressed up and have nowhere to keep my phone. This has happened to me, I don’t know… at least one time. Thanks to soft circuit technology and the folks at CuteCircuit, I can now have my fancy soiree and my phone, too. Behold, the M-Dress, a silk […]
Google has introduced a feature from Apple’s portable device range to the latest edition of the Chrome browser. Unfortunately, that feature is Flash not working… or at least, not working too well. Ever since the update to the 10th edition of the browser I — and it appears a lot of other people — have […]