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17 May

CCD: how it works

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Bill Hammack takes apart a digital camera and explains how it captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD is used with a color filter array to create colored images.
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15 May

Touchy: the human camera

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Excerpt: 
If you ever come across a person with a giant helmet which looks like a robot in the street, don't be scared. Just step forward and touch the person
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03 May

Game on for eye tracking technology

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Source: Euronews

Computer games can be played using eye-tracking technology to control the action on screen. All players have to do is look at what they want to shoot. Two cameras record eye movements and send commands to the software. Swedish company Tobii has been working on this technology for 10 years, and it is already well established as an aid for disabled people.

Excerpt: 
Computer games can be played using eye-tracking technology to control the action on screen. All players have to do is look at what they want to shoot. Two cameras record eye movements and send commands to the software. Swedish company Tobii has been working on this technology for 10 years, and it is already well established as an aid for disabled people.
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30 Apr

How to hide from face-detection technology

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Source: CNN

If you take Adam Harvey's advice, here's what you might wanna wear to a party this weekend: A funny hat, asymmetrical glasses, a tuft of hair that dangles off your nose bridge and, most likely, a black-and-white triangle taped to your cheekbone. Optional: Cubic makeup patterns all around your eyes.

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If you take Adam Harvey's advice, here's what you might wanna wear to a party this weekend: A funny hat, asymmetrical glasses, a tuft of hair that dangles off your nose bridge and, most likely, a black-and-white triangle taped to your cheekbone. Optional: Cubic makeup patterns all around your eyes.
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12 Apr

NOAA Titanic Expedition 2004: Breathtaking Wreck Footage

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Source: NOAA Oceanexplorer youtube channel

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Breathtaking... Nearly 20 years after first finding the sunken remains of the R.M.S. Titanic, marine explorer Robert Ballard returned in June 2004 helped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Ocean Exploration to study the ship's rapid deterioration.
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11 Apr

German Firm Uses Aerial Photos to Find Bombs

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Luftbilddatenbank / TARA

Source: spiegel.de

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A small German firm offers a unique service to the country's construction industry: It uses historical British and American aerial photography from World War II air strikes to determine the location of unexploded bombs. Thousands of tons of bombs still lie in the soil and the duds are becoming more dangerous.
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06 Apr

TED talk: Marco Tempest: A magical tale

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Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity -- all while working extraordinary illusions with his hands and an augmented reality machine.

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Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity -- all while working extraordinary illusions with his hands and an augmented reality machine.
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05 Apr

Project Glass: Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses

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Google Project Glas, source: G+ page
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Apparently Google is working on something it calls “Project Glass” which is focused around augmented-reality glasses. You might think technology is penetrating way beyond where it supposed to in our daily life,
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17 Mar

Highspeed cameras used to record Butterfly's flight

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Filming a butterfly's flight could help the researchers to design tiny flying robots. To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras
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12 Mar

Teaching Kinect to recognize objects

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Another amazing project using OpenKinect (drivers), OpenCV (image processing and recognition), FestVox (speech synthesis) and CMU Sphinx (speech recognition).

The project has been done a year ago but still very novel!

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Another amazing project using OpenKinect (drivers), OpenCV (image processing and recognition), FestVox (speech synthesis) and CMU Sphinx (speech recognition).
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