Advances In Skin Rendering Technology Are A Little Gross But Mostly Amazing
“We present a technique for synthesizing the effects of skin microstructure deformation by anisotropically convolving a high resolution displacement map to match normal distribution changes in measured skin samples.” Read as: We make fake skin look really, really good.
June 8, 2015 at 10:18AM
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How Instagram Is Transforming Professional Cooking
Dining has reached its Instagram era, when a camera is as central to the experience as a fork and anyone with a decent eye is making magazine-quality photos of food.
June 8, 2015 at 07:40AM
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How To Never Lose Anything Again
Tile is a tiny gadget that helps find all the stuff you hate to lose like wallets, bags and keys. And because we don’t want you to lose extra dough, you can buy it now starting at $20. (See what we did there?)
June 8, 2015 at 06:33AM
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Wi-Fi That Charges Your Gadgets Is Closer Than You Think
It’s easy to take Wi-Fi for granted (as long as you have the password). But what if it did more than facilitate your Pinterest habit? What if instead of just connecting your devices to the Internet, it charged them as well, no wires required?
June 7, 2015 at 09:12AM
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How Will NASA Land Big Payloads on Mars? Inflatable Donuts
You need two things to land successfully on Mars: low speed and low mass.
June 7, 2015 at 01:12AM
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Watch The DARPA Robotics Challenge
Live from Pomona, California watch the second day of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, as 10 bots try and navigate an obstacle course that involves getting out an ATV, opening a door, and walking through sand — among other simple tasks. We’re sorry about the sound mix being off, but this is the price you pay for witnessing the future.
June 6, 2015 at 01:18PM
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A Compilation Of Robots Falling Down From The DARPA Robotics Challenge
We laugh now, but one day the machines will come to rule this planet and humanity will be nothing more than a distant memory. But until then, enjoy footage of complex robots failing at the simplest of tasks!
June 6, 2015 at 09:19AM
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How textiles revolutionised technology
Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again.
June 6, 2015 at 07:58AM
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7 Hilarious Robo-Falls from the DARPA Robotics Challenge
One day, the machines will eradicate humanity and take over the planet. Today is not that day.
June 5, 2015 at 04:03PM
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New York City man robbed at gunpoint for … bitcoin?
A New York man was robbed at gunpoint of $1,100 worth of bitcoin, police told CNBC.com on Friday.
June 5, 2015 at 02:58PM
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