3D movies without the glasses

3D movies without the glasses

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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 possibly 3D printing murder victim’s fingerprint to unlock their phone

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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

History tells us what may happen next

History tells us what may happen next

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We are in unprecidented times. Trump is running for presidency on a platform unlike any other in modern history. The Democratic party is in shambles. Putin has rattled sabers with small invasions of neighboring countries. ISIS is spreading terror into Europe. Brexit vote passed despite being predicted to fail. We sit on the precipice of…something very different.

An excellent read by a historian looking at our current situation.

 

View at Medium.com

Mounting a Windows hosted samba share from Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu/etc) – with a domain account

Mounting a Windows hosted samba share from Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu/etc) – with a domain account

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Samba shares can be finicky beasts. Mounting a samba (smb) point shared from a Windows host doubly tricky at times due to cross-platform differences such as domains.

If you ever find yourself trying to mount a Windows hosted Samba share and need to log in with a domain account, here’s the format:

sudo mount -t cifs -o domain=<YOURDOMAIN>,username=<YOURUSERNAME>,password=<YOURPASSWORD> //<HOSTNAME>/TestShare /mnt/

This mounts <hostname> which can be either an ip address or host name to the directory /mnt/ when using the proper domain, username and password. Whew.

You can also test your connection by using smbclient, which seems to have a more forgiving syntax.:

smbclient //<HOSTNAME>/TestShare -U <YOURDOMAIN>/<YOURUSERNAME>
ex:
smbclient //myhost.com/TestShare -U ibmdom/billwaters

This would connect you to myhost.com/Testshare directory using the user account billwaters that is part of the ibmdom domain. It would then prompt you for your password. You can also optionally add the password to the command line, but this allows you to type it in separately.

Making electronics is easy

Making electronics is easy

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Tokyo-based startup AgIC made a pent that can transmit electricity with its silver ink. In an ad by Japanese infrastructure company Kandenko, a tiny 3D paper town comes to life as the pen conducts electricity as a person draws lines. The pen can be bought on Amazon for 1,296 yen (about 12$.)

Retractable/Invisible fences

Retractable/Invisible fences

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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.

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