Intel Overclocking Thermal Velocity Boost is a feature that allows you to set a temperature threshold and overclock based on that temperature.
When paired with sub-ambient coolers, it opens a whole new realm of overclocking.
Here’s another overclocker also experimenting with the feature.
This February was the sixth iteration of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or HI-SEAS. Since 2013, small groups of people have made this drive (up the Northern slope of Mauna Loa) and moved into the dome, known as a habitat. Their job is to pretend that they really are on Mars, and then spend months living like it. The goal, for the researchers who send them there, is to figure out how human beings would do on a mission to the real thing.
HI-SEAS is a social experiment, and the participants are the lab rats. They wear devices to track their vitals, movements, and sleep, answer countless questionnaires about their own behavior and their interactions with others, and journal several times a week about their feelings. The durations have varied, from four months to a full year, and participants come from all over the world and different fields.
However, on February 19th, the most recent experiment came to an abrupt end. The batteries powered by a solar array for the habitat lost power due to lingering clouds over the volcano. Two crew members donned their space suits, went outside, and started a backup propane generator while the two other crew members flipped a switch on a circuit breaker inside the habitat.
When the suited-up crew members returned to the habitat, a crew member was typing furiously at a computer. The other looked stricken and pale. They said they didn’t feel well. They said they had sustained an electric shock.
It’s a reminder that even small tasks can become matters of life and death. Fortunately for this team, help was just a short drive away. Learn about the HI-SEAS program, previous missions and what went wrong during Mission Six at The Atantic via Get Pocket.
A pretty hypnotic new style of juggling where the balls are suspended while being juggled. Daniel Rosenfeldt performs his orbit juggling performance called The Star Catcher.
How to create an artificial daylight/sun effect anywhere and any time.
This isn’t the first video I have put up about the amazing engineering work being done at Disney Studios, but this one is definitely the most visually…unsettling.
This video describes the development of a “lifelike gaze system” for human-robot interactions. They present a general architecture that seeks not only to create gaze interactions from a technological standpoint, but also through the lens of character animation where the fidelity and believability of motion is paramount; that is we seek to create an interaction which demonstrates the illusion of life.
In its current state – it looks a little too like something right out of a Terminator movie; but I think I can see where it’s going. Imagine fully clothed (and with rubber skin) animatronics you can interact with or narrate to you at one of their installations.
A while back Top Gear reviewed the world’s smallest car: the Peel P50.
But did you know that they are still being made and you can actually buy and own a brand new, street legal Peel P50? While they run £8,250 in the UK, US buyers can purchase an all electric one for a mere $1,100.
Not only that, but they are re-manufacturing a number of other tiny cars in the line – with a whole host of colors and features. There is a Cabrio version that is a convertible, a Trident that has a classic 60’s era bubble dome cockpit, and even build-it-yourself kits.
Head on over to https://p50cars.com and see if one suits your fancy!
I worked with a little bit of early lightfield photography back in the day. Looks like they’ve expanded and possibly found an interesting VR application. These researchers present a system for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering high quality immersive light field video.
Here’s the Siggraph paper and some more examples:
https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/
The Charles Bridge is a historic, gorgeous bridge that crosses the Vltava (Moldau) river in Prague. I was fascinated by it and the whole city of Prague when I visited.
Its construction started in 1357 under King Charles IV, and finished in the beginning of the 15th century. It stands today – which means it has seen an amazing amount of history.
The associated video collection on the channel also goes through how the bridge was constructed – and has videos of other historic Prague buildings.
How many potatoes does it take to run Doom? About 770 potato slices if you run it on a TI-84 calculator. 770 very stinky potatoes.