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Forgotten Archery Skills
The Danish archers Lars Andersen has rediscovered an old and very fast way to shoot bows:
“In 60,000 years, man has shot with bow. Today we know very little about the past archery.
So much is lost. There are no truths, or proper ways to shoot with bow,
I have rediscovered something about archery, but there is still so much to rediscover”
RoboCop – Official Trailer
Secret Monitor! (How To)
Make your own stealth monitor
GranTurismo6 coming with GPS logger
Gran Turismo 6 to feature over 1200 cars and 100 track layouts
Drivers will be able to record real GPS data from their own car and then recreate the route as a track in the game. The ‘GPS Visualizer’ also utilises GPS coordinate data from a real car on the real-life versions of the GT6 circuits. The data can then be imported into GT6 to create a ‘virtual’ replay image of your laps in the game.
Audi quattro concept
The Ender’s Game Audi quattro fleet concept behind the scenes – as Audi collaborates with filmmakers on the future of transportation in 2088.
30 Important Digital Cameras
The 30 Most Important Digital Cameras of All Time
From the first prototype of 1975 to Sony’s Cyber-shot RX1 of 2012, here’s a chronicle of photography’s inevitable march to digital
Tactile 3D Touchscreen
Disney Research shows off a process it calls “rendering 3D tactile features on touch surfaces.” For the project, the researchers used an electrovibration-based display and a new algorithm developed in-house to allow the human hand to feel the textures of objects as presented on the screen.
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The algorithm maps the frictional forces between the screen and the user’s finger to the surface contours of the virtual 3D image presented on the touchscreen. This dynamic allows the system to adjust to various virtual surface sensations on the fly, rather than offering canned sensations as some tactile touchscreen feedback experiments have demonstrated in the past.
This tactile touch system works on everything from map topographies, animals and any number of 3D-rendered objects.
Sound Through Touch
The audio recording can be transmitted by physical contact, from body to body. Secrets, messages and whispers can then be transmitted from person to person in physical contact with each others.