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Sony unveils a Prototype 3D 360 Display Device

•October 24, 2009 • Leave a Comment

OOoAHh! Today Sony unveiled a prototype of a 3D 360 degree display that can show 3D objects at all angles around the device. Sony’s keeping details under wraps, and hasn’t explained how it works, for now.

The display offers an impressive image and doesn’t require glasses. It’s just a prototype now.

The cylindrical display case is 27 cm tall with a base of 13 cm in diameter, and features a 96 by 128-pixel resolution that looks better than might be expected. The screen displays 3D objects including a cartoon character, car, globe, and people.

Sony created these objects either in 3D on a computer or by taking photographs of them from various angles. The result is that the objects appear to have depth, and can be viewed from any angle on the horizontal plane by walking around the display screen.

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That’s a Big Twinkie – Ghostbusters Multi-Track Beatbox

•October 23, 2009 • Leave a Comment

I must admit, I totally got into it from the chorus on!

It’s little videos like this that actually get me excited for Halloween. Normally I hate beat-boxing, but this little Ghostbusters remake has some high quality multi-tracking.

Matt Mulholland performs Ghostbusters theme in 14part harmony.

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Japanese Girls Melting Ice Creatively …Ok [WTF] [NSFW…ish]

•October 22, 2009 • 1 Comment

New Zealand television is so far behind — Just when you think Japanese game shows can’t get any better, they go and invent a game where bikini-clad babes attempt to be the first to melt a phallic piece of ice by any means necessary. Why? Believe me if I could speak Japanese I would tell you:

A Japanese game show pits girls against one another to see who can melt a dildo-shaped piece of ice the fastest. An alternate title of this post would be “A Japanese girl’s instructional guide to giving blow jobs.” – Peggy Wang

Nice use of Chemical Brothers.

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The Great Circle – Data Visualized by Michael Paukner

•October 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Many of the ancient ‘wonders of the world’ are apparently at an angle to the earth’s axis: OoooAhhh

View More of Michael Paukner’s Work

Here is another work of his I like: DØG

And God said, “Because I have created this new animal to be a reflection of my love for you, his name will be a reflection of my own name, and you shall call him DOG.”

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Leech Convicts Australian Robber

•October 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Not quite Gattaca, but getting there. Australian police have caught an armed robber involved in a 2001 crime thanks to DNA evidence from a leech. GOODNESS I LOVE LEECHES!!!

Police found a leech at the scene of a robbery in Tasmania eight years ago. They took a sample of the blood the leech had consumed. In 2008, Peter Alec Cannon was arrested on an unrelated drug charge. The DNA from his blood matched the blood from the leech!

Cannon would probably have got away with the crime had he not been charged with drug offences late last year, and asked to give a DNA sample – which matched that from the crime scene.

Detective Inspector Mick Johnston, who was involved in the police investigation from the start, said Cannon’s conviction validated the use of DNA technology.

“It’s a testament to DNA evidence and the legislation that allows us to keep such evidence in relation to unsolved crimes – this is a fantastic result,” he said.

BBC NEWS

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Exquisitely Disturbing Dead Albatross

•October 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Heartrending plight of the albatross chicks who call the Great Pacific Garbage Patch home:

The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. – Chris Jordon

Photographer Chris Jordan has published a series of images identified as dead albatross on Midway Atoll whose bodies are filled with bits of plastic they ingested.

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Pancake Picking Robot

•October 20, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Informative, but all this does is make me really hungry:

ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. William Eid a director of Honeytop comments “This is our first investment in robotics technology and we have not experienced a single issue sincethe installation 6 months ago”

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All Your Viral Videos Are Belong To Us – 100 Greatest YouTube Hits

•October 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Watch 100 famous viral videos that have ever graced the internet in 4 minutes!!!
Consider it a time-wasting time saver.

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Video of Balloon boy in Attic

•October 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Video of Balloon boy in Attic , Father admits hoax.

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Always Blow on the Pie. Safer Communities Together.

•October 18, 2009 • 1 Comment

Forget “COPS“. You want a great impression of New Zealand, check this short 42 second video out; “Police Ten 7“, New Zealand’s own real-life cop series: