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Video: Google Glass app shows off facial recognition features.
MedRef for Glass is a new “Glassware” app designed for doctors to allow them to quickly identify a patient through facial recognition and pull up relevant files and information on that person. The app also allows users to add photos and voice notes taken with Glass to a patients file.
The video here also gives a good insight into how it looks to see someone using Glass itself. He looks freakin ridiculous, staring off into space and stroking the side of his glasses like Dr Evil stroking Mr Bigglesworth. Damn I wish that was me.
The world’s smallest movie is made out of atoms.
‘A Boy And His Atom’ holds the Guinness world record for the worlds smallest stop motion film, having been filmed using a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other).The atoms needed to be magnified 100 million times just to be seen.
Check out the making of video here.
Video: 8 Bit games, recreated with Post-It notes.
From the maker:
This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls.
Video: RoboJelly.
The robotic jellyfish is being built by several US Universities as part of a $5 million project funded by the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The main focus of the program is to understand the fundamentals of propulsion mechanisms utilized by nature, in an effort to build an autonomous sea-faring robot that can stay afloat sensing and transmitting data for months at a time.
Future uses of the robot jellyfish could include conducting military surveillance, cleaning oil spills, and monitoring the environment.
Video: Computer Chronicles check out the internet, in 1995.
Admittedly I only watched the first three minutes, but it’s worth checking out just for the 90’s music and intro.
Video: Robotic snake wraps around objects when thrown.
I bet the researchers throw this at each other in the lab for jokes.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics lab have been working on this snake for several years, but the ability to cling to an object when thrown is a new feature.
Scientists believe snakes leg and feet-free mode of locomotion might be ideal for use in hard to reach places, such as buildings that have been knocked down by an earthquake. The research is being funded by the U.S. Army Research Lab.
Video: Bridge explodes in slow-motion.
This is the explosive demolition of a 1930s-era steel bridge along US 281 in Marble Falls, Texas.
Video: 4D printed objects.
MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits has shown off a process which uses a specialized 3D printer to make multi-layered materials, which then self assemble over time.
It could be used to install objects in hard-to-reach places such as underground water pipes, he suggested. It might also herald an age of self-assembling furniture, said experts.
“We’re proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over time static objects will transform and adapt,” he told the BBC.
The process uses a specialised 3D printer made by Stratasys that can create multi-layered materials. It combines a strand of standard plastic with a layer made from a “smart” material that can absorb water. The water acts as an energy source for the material to expand once it is printed.
“The rigid material becomes a structure and the other layer is the force that can start bending and twisting it,” said Mr Tibbits.
“Essentially the printing is nothing new, it is about what happens after,” he added.
Such a process could in future be used to build furniture, bikes, cars and even buildings, he thinks.
Google Glass user experience detailed.
Google has released this new video showing more details of how users will interact with Glass. Although previous information released by the company showed users swiping near or touching the side of the glasses, the latest video shows how easy it is (or at least appears) to be to use voice commands for hands free control.
Google has also released details of how the public can get their own glasses, although it includes an application process and you need to attend a special ‘pick-up experience’ in the US, plus pay the $1,500 plus tax asking price for the Explorer Edition which are soon to ship out to developers.
While it may seem like a high price to pay and a lot of work, I’m sure there will be no shortage of people still willing to sign up here.
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