Robot quadrotors are becoming more and more advanced everyday. Amazingly, the University Of Pennsylvania made a special quadrotor concert where the tiny flying bots literally play the James Bond theme.
The four rotor flying machines are controlled entirely by an AI computer program with no human intervention at all. The video is featured on TheAtlantic, LaughingSquid, YouTubeTrends, and CBSNews.
Microsoft’s Kinect camera system may have revolutionized the video game world, but that’s just the beginning. Scientist and inventors have plans to use the advance technology for a slew of new innovations.
The latest is a grocery cart outfitted with a Kinect computer system. One day, our shopping carts may follow us around, keep tabs of our shopping list, and even check us out, all via computers taking advantage of the Kinect system. Read more on JoyStiq and PCMag.
Every time a leap year roles around, people always ask why exactly do we deal with this adding one days every four years business? And it’s a great question. Thankfully, our good friend CGPGrey has an even greater answer.
YouTube optical illusionist master Greeenpro2009 spent hours places small dots on a black and white checkerboard in a certain sequence. He then played the video is reverse slow motion.
The result ’causes us to see the pattern as being warped inward because our eyes/brains pick them up as visual cues.’ The video has been viewed over 100,000 times in just two days, and is featured on YouTubeTrends and Gizmodo.
Grace Hopper was a famous American Navy officer and computer scientist who passed away in 1992. This vintage footage of her explaining nanoseconds in physical terms just went viral this weekend, and is featured on GeeksAreSexy and VideoSift.
Hopper explains to a class room how a nanosecond is a billionth of a second, a number to small to really grasp. So she expressed a nanosecond with a string of wire, just under a foot to be exact. That’s how far electricity can travel in a nanosecond. To compare, she also shows what a microsecond looks like physically–a wire nine hundred and eighty-four feet long.
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