The final phase of the Intel Make it Wearable challenge is here. Over 400 worldwide teams applied and just 10 teams remain. These 10 finalists will participate in the mentorship and incubation phase, coming one step closer to the $500,000 grand prize. The final judging…
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Two years ago Ben McMahon woke up from a coma more than a week after a horrific car crash that almost claimed his life only being able to speak Mandarin. The 22-year-old remembers how he woke up and saw a nurse who looked Asian standing…
03 Sep / You might have to pinch yourself when you see this aerial performance, “Building Of The Dream”
Symbolizing the “building of the dream” – one of the key themes of Nanjing 2014 – a gravity- defying human tower reached into the sky, before the acrobats, all suspended on wires, broke into an beautifully choreographed mid-air ballet.
The FingerReader, developed by researchers at MIT, is a wearable device that gives the blind the ability to read in real time. The device works by allowing blind people to move their fingers over words on a page, while the device reads the text back…
Projecting computer graphics onto buildings or rooms to make them digitally come alive isn’t new, but how about if your canvas is a living, moving, human face? Omote does just that, a combination of real-time face tracking and projection mapping that takes a model’s face…
Funny things happen when money isn’t part of the equation. You only need to ask people who volunteer about their reasons for doing so to get a window into another aspect of human fulfillment that doesn’t feature in many of our lives. So often that…
This is an extraordinary piece of media that no doubt took an incredible amount of time and work. Yet the product is so worth it. We have seen a rise in popularity surrounding the visionary artist field. It looks like film is the new horizon…
Thanks to 16-year-old Nick Rubin, keeping track of just how much politicians have sold out has become a lot easier. He created Greenhouse, a new browser plug-in that operates under the motto “Some are red. Some are blue. All are green.” The plugin aims “to…
Featuring San Francisco Ballet principal dancers Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada, “Francesca Da Rimini” is an experiment using a robotically controlled camera to capture ballet. “Ballet Meets Robotics,” reveals the artistry, inspiration, and technology that went into the short film.
“Expect more crime, more kids using marijuana and pot for sale everywhere,” said Douglas County Sheriff David Weaver in 2012. Profits are up, way up. Crime is down. So let’s revisit a couple predictions about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado: “I think our entire…