Barefoot Lego treadmill
Stepping barefoot on a Lego is an experience everyone has had and few want to relive.
So why not do it on a treadmill?
Smoke bomb cocktail
While this edges close to hipster cocktail douchery, it is cool enough that I might have to give this a try just for being pretty cool.
3D movies without the glasses
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses
MIT set out to create a display that lets people see the 3D effect in a movie theater, from any seat in the house – no glasses required. Teaming up with Israel’s Weiszmann Institute of Science, CSAIL managed to put together a prototype called ‘Cinema 3D’ that uses a complex arrangement of lenses and mirrors to create a set number of parallax barriers (think of Venetian blinds that show a slightly different set of pixels to each of the viewer’s eyes to simulate depth) that can address every viewing angle in the theater based on seat locations.
Police possibly 3D printing murder victim’s fingerprint to unlock their phone
Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached a professor at Michigan State earlier this year to reproduce a murder victim’s fingerprint from a prerecorded scan. Once created, the 3D model would be used to create a false fingerprint, which could be used to unlock the phone.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/21/12247370/police-fingerprint-3D-printing-unlock-phone-murder
Beautiful camera work
Make me a nanosecond
Grace Hopper was a badass. She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. Here she explains a nanosecond.
Auto-colorize photos using a neural-net trained algorithm
Algorithmia has developed deep learning algorithms to automatically colorize black and white photos. Give it a shot on your own photos – and give them free data to experiment with :).
http://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/
Making electronics is easy
Tokyo Cityview is having a Ghibli show that raises the roof
Tokyo Cityview is doing a Studio Ghibli exhibit. One of the most amazing pieces is an incredible replica of a massive airship from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky. It features scads of lights, dozens of moving propellers and oars, and is surrounded by a sky filled with other aircraft.
https://vimeo.com/174210524
Retractable/Invisible fences
A company called Fancy Fence in Poland makes wild fences/gates that retract into the ground. Clever, clean design. It even has an emergency mode in case power is lost.
They have different styles and both retractable driveway or sidewalk gates.
