Imagine taking a picture, without a camera. If that sound ridiculous, it’s because it is—but it’s also exactly what a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, have been doing. This picture wasn’t created using two multi-pixel sensors like most 3D images—but with a technique called ghost imaging, which for the first time [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-3d-picture-was-created-without-a-camera/
Who has time to watch a whole movie anymore? It’s summer! So in the spirit of phoning in everything once the temperature rises above 70-ish, here’s Ridley Scott’s Aliens in 60 seconds of adorable animation. Brought to you, of course, by the fine folks who did Star Wars Episode IV, Back to the Future, and [...]
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So, Google’s new Hangouts app keeps all of your chats in sync across all of your devices. Cool, right? But what if you’re in a video call on your phone, and then open the same video call on your computer. Boop! Suddenly there’s two of you, as I just discovered when chatting with my friend [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-hangouts-has-a-fun-new-easter-egg/
These little things look exactly like flowers—and that’s because they’re meant to. But in real life you’d never be able to spot them, because they are in fact microscopic crystals grown on the surface of a razor blade. The images—which take a starring role on the cover of this week’s issue of Science—were produced by [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/these-arent-flowers/
Turning water into ice usually takes a lot of time. Not for this guy though, he magically turns liquid water into frozen ice. It’s instantaneous! Seriously, just watch water get poured from the bottle and then freeze immediately. What kind of sorcery is this? The trick is getting the water to just about freezing in [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/watch-liquid-water-instantly-turn-into-ice/
Robert Burden, an artist living in San Francisco, has an affinity for immortalising his favourite childhood action figures as gigantic oil paintings that makes them seem larger than life. His latest piece, The Autobot, which gives Optimus Prime the glory he so readily deserves, took over 1,000 hours to complete. And thankfully for us, Robert [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/watch-an-epic-optimus-painting-come-to-life-in-this-amazing-timelapse/
Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google’s Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek. Ex-Valve employees Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson had [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ex-valve-engineers-crazy-ar-glasses-put-tiny-projectors-on-your-face/
Pixelation: we rely on it today to obscure nudity and lewd gestures on TV. But did you know that we have a 1973 Michael Crichton sci-fi film called Westworld to thank for the image-blurring digital effect? Crichton—who was relatively inexperienced at the time—wanted to create something that, onscreen, looked like a blurred digital machine. He [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-michael-crichton-gave-birth-to-the-movie-pixel/
Water and electricity: historically, not a great combo! But Antonin Fourneau, a French artist and engineer, combines both to remarkable ends in his installation, Water Light Graffiti, which landed in New York this week. The surface of Water Light Graffiti is dotted by thousands of LEDs, each ringed by a sensor that triggers the light [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/water-activated-led-wall-sounds-dangerous-looks-beautiful/
While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Sunday, kids that are smart than either you or I are out there getting ready to change the world. 18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), for example, not only invented a supercapacitor that could someday be a phone battery that charges in a [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-18-year-olds-invention-could-make-your-future-phone-instacharge/
