Ebooks and Tablets are rapidly bringing us closer and closer to treating reading materials and media consumption to Star Trek levels, and while that is pretty exciting, the paper industry is starting to feel the pinch. The popularity of digital media for books and documents has been accelerating for years, and paper manufacturing is on […]
The future excites me so much, that is why I made this video. We need to be inspired by the immense possibilities of the future and work extremely hard to achieve them. We can do it, we just have to commit. Help inspire others by sharing this video and tagging any interesting content on twitter […]
You can’t help but smile if someone says they’re going to use a video game to teach physics. Of course, with Portal 2, you actually could provide a much more engaging lesson in some of the more dull aspects of one of our core sciences. So Valve software have created an educational GLaDOS – Teach […]
If you like the idea of a robot vacuum cleaner but think having to walk over to it to get it started is too much work, the creators of one of the most popular models are catering to your whims. The Roomba 790 is the latest in the much-publicized range of robot cleaners. It’s got […]
The United States is once again home to the world’s fastest computer. It ends a 20 month American absence from the top spot while first a Chinese and then a Japanese machine was number one. The honor is bestowed by the TOP500 project, which has been putting together a regularly-updated supercomputer list since 1993. It […]
On May 29, 2012, the Ascending Aggies exhibited their award winning device by scaling the west wall of the Dean F. Peterson Engineering Building. The PVAC Design took first place at the Air Force Research Laboratory Design Challenge on April 20, 2012. [Via IHC]
Our goal is to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. Our method, which we call Eulerian Video Magnification, takes a standard video sequence as input, and applies spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering to the frames. The resulting […]
Microsoft has announced it will allow advertisers to offer interactive commercials for Kinect users. But a patent filing suggests viewers may be more closely involved in the advertising process than they realize. The commercials, dubbed NUads, look to be a combination of a gimmick to get viewers to pay closer attention and a way to […]