Review: The bigger the drone, the bigger the fun for beginners
I've reviewed a few quadcopters over the past year, but they've been on the tiny side.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 6, 2016
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News tagged with video cameras
Surprise meteor shower on New Year's Eve
A new network of video surveillance cameras in New Zealand has detected a surprise meteor shower on New Year's Eve. The shower is called the Volantids, named after the constellation Volans, the flying fish, from which the ...
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2016
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The Fred and Ginger of the finch world (w/ Video)
A monogamous African songbird performs a tap dance so fast it is invisible to the human eye, in an elaborate courtship ritual with steps for both partners, scientists said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2015
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Tiny dancers: Can ballet bugs help us build better robots?
When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets.
General Physics
Oct 20, 2015
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What does it take to escape the water? Plankton have clues
Dolphins and whales may attract a lot of attention when they leap dramatically out of the water. But aquatic animals thousands of times smaller are accomplished jumpers, too.
General Physics
Oct 13, 2015
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Bat species found to have tongue pump to pull in nectar
(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama has found that one species of bat has a method of collecting nectar that has never ...
Heists go Hollywood with DefCon hacks
Hollywood-style heists took on real-world potential as hackers at a Def Con gathering showed how to crack safes in full view of security cameras without ever being seen.
Security
Aug 9, 2015
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New video camera released featuring ultra-high-speed CMOS image sensor developed at tohoku university
An ultra-high-speed CMOS image sensor that offers 10 million frames per second with ISO16,000 photosensitivity has been developed at Tohoku University by a research group led by Prof. Shigetoshi Sugawa at the Graduate School ...
Hardware
Aug 7, 2015
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New method captures facial details at high fidelity and real time
Forehead wrinkles that rapidly deepen and crow's feet that appear suddenly around the eyes might distress the average person, but the ability to quickly and realistically incorporate such details in a facial reconstruction ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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Creating an avatar from a 3-D selfie
Generating a 3D duplicate of someone without the aid of a Hollywood studio: this is the challenge taken up by EPFL researchers, who have successfully condensed an expensive and complex process to use only a smartphone camera.
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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