Thursday, May 27, 2010

IcePics iPhone App helps you catch perverts!

The IcePics iPhone app automatically sends photos and current coordinates to preselected individuals. This is supposed to keep you safe and alert friends if someone creepy approaches you in a dark alley, but there's a more amusing use: Party photography.

I mean, how often did you catch someone in the middle of a stupid activity only to have him snatch away your phone before you had a chance to send the picture to someone?

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Multitouch Wall




Multi-Touch gives a great deal of ease as freedom over a 3D objects. The key is to make sure it can be used for more than just data visualization. There has to be a very adaptive and scalable user-interface system setup to provide that control in an intuitive and easy to use way.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sharks can become invisible!


As if they weren't scary enough, scientists have discovered that sharks can become invisible to prey/you using an optical trick. Not scared yet? Well, one of the invisible shark species is nicknamed the phantom hunter of the fjords. Run. Now.

The real name of the phantom hunter is Etmopterus spinax or velvet belly lantern shark. It lives in the deep waters of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, the shark becomes invisible by regulating the photophores underneath its body. This makes their belly glow matching the color of the Sun's light above them. As a result, prey or predators looking up from lower depths are not able to see them.

Fortunately, not all sharks can become invisible: Only ten percent of the sharks can use this trick. And even better news: No flying invisible sharks with laser weapons have been discovered yet:)