Archive for July, 2006
Eighth Grade Science
27 July 2006Woot 8/8!!
You Passed 8th Grade Science
Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!
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DIY 3D Laser Scanner
26 July 2006I’ve got to try this out sometime, and seeing as it fits nicely into my work with 3D face recognition I don’t even have to do it on my own time
Create your own super hi-tech 3-D laser scanner. Using just a laser pointer, wine glass, rotating platform, and a digital video camera, you […]
Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP
26 July 2006Thanks to David for the link to this cool demonstration of the face tracking abilities of logitechs quickcam.
Go Shawn Go!!
26 July 2006This guy is finally standing up to the bully-boy tactics employed by the MPAA and RIAA. I say all power to him, lets hope that by upgrading from suing clueless parents to a wealthy technology enthusiast they have bitten off more than they can chew.
Last November, Shawn Hogan received an unsettling call: A lawyer […]
Licence Plate Tracking to come to the masses
26 July 2006I saw an article a while back that detailed a cop cruiser in LA using a new Licence Plate Recognition system which was capable of reading in 30-60 plates a second and sending them through the cars data system to check for outstanding warrants, stolen vehicles, parking tickets etc. Sounded like a great use of […]
Asian Schoolgirl - No NOT porn
25 July 2006
Pretty Pictures of Complex Networks
25 July 2006Complexity is everywhere. It’s a structural and organizational
principle that reaches almost every field imaginable, from genetics and
social networks to food webs and stock markets. Contemporary scientific
and technological accomplishments—including mapping the human
genome, decoding neural networks and opening up the ocean to
exploration—have seen our ability to generate and acquire
information outpace our ability to make sense of it. […]
Robotic Snake
25 July 2006More from the robotics arena, researchers from Norway have developed a robotic snake which is 3 m long and weighs 70 kg. The robot is propelled by 20 hydraulic motors which are powered directly from pressurized water within a firehose - apparently there is enough energy available to lift a car or break through a […]
Splendour in the Grass
24 July 2006What a great weekend, splendour was a blooody great time!!! Although a fairly reasonable case could be made to officially change the name to “splendour in the mud” - there was an incredible amount of water on the ground in some places. Thankfully though by sunday the organizers had done some great work to pump […]
AT&T Wiretapping case moves forward
21 July 2006I was very happy to see this article on Ars Technica stating that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker has turned down the governments motion to quash the EFF case against the telecoms giant. If you haven’t been following the story, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a civil liberties group in the US) initiated a class action against […]