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Jun 25, 2018
Oculus launches its first app focused on watching television
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
Oculus is launching a TV app for users to check out streaming video content on a big virtual screen on the Oculus Go headset.
The company highlighted Oculus TV at Facebook’s F8 developer conference as one of four new Oculus-built apps that would allow users to get the most out of the inexpensive headset. The app was supposed to launch by the end of May, but we’re finally getting to take a look at it.
Facebook wants a big selling point of the $199 Oculus Go to be that it’s the cheapest home theater you can buy. Oculus TV is a sizable step toward making all of the features related to conventional video viewing available easily. The app will be a free download for existing users of the headset and will come pre-installed on the device moving forward.
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Jun 14, 2018
Hover camera follows you and takes selfies
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, electronics
This flying camera drone will put your selfie skills to shame. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2xvPgDp
May 6, 2018
This company is creating a product with ‘Superman vision’ that can ‘see’ through solid objects
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: electronics
Vayyar is an Israel-based company that’s developed a sensor that can “see” through solid objects using radio frequencies.
A new laser-based field instrument developed by a collaborative team of researchers can quantify methane leaks as tiny as 1/4 of a human exhalation from nearly…a mile away. The system, constructed around a dual-frequency comb spectrometer, provides efficient, accurate data collection at a fraction of the cost of previous technologies. The research was partially funded by DARPA’s Spectral Combs from UV to THz (SCOUT) program.
Mar 24, 2018
The travelling speed camera
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, electronics
The ULTRACAM has been a staple in ESO for almost 16 years. This high-speed camera is able to do 500 photographs per second in three different wavelengths and, since 2002 has been operating at the William Herschel Telescope at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), the New Technology Telescope at La Silla (Chile) (where this picture was taken) and, most recently, at the Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Chile) and the Thai National Telescope at Chiang Mai (Thailand).
Some of its past targets have included: the study of black holes, “hot-Jupiters” or variable stars.
Mar 22, 2018
Worn Like a Helmet, a New Brain Scanner Aims to Make It Easier to Treat Kids with Epilepsy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: electronics, neuroscience
Lightweight equipment is not much larger than what a bicyclist would wear.
- By Megan Thielking, STAT on March 22, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
World’s tallest active geyser may be erupting deep in Yellowstone National Park
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
The tallest active geyser in the world may be erupting for the first time since 2014, according to the National Park Service.
Yellowstone National Park employees reported seeing the Steamboat Geyser erupt on Thursday evening, the park service announced Friday. Park geologists then compared the accounts to thermal sensors in the area and determined it “could be a series of minor eruptions.”
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Feb 28, 2018
MIT Engineers Have Built a Device That Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: electronics
Temperature changes large and small are happening around us all the time, and scientists have come up with a machine that can convert those fluctuations into electricity, potentially powering sensors and communication devices almost out of thin air.
The energy harvesting is done through what’s called a thermal resonator: a device that captures heat on one side and radiates it over to the other. As both sides try and reach equilibrium, the energy can be caught using the process of thermoelectrics.
According to the team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the new thermal resonator could keep remote sensors or any off-grid devices powered up for years, just by using temperature swings – like the natural ones between night and day, for instance.
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Feb 26, 2018
Canon’s newest mirrorless camera shoots 4K video
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
The new $779 M50 is similar to the M5, but it’s got a new image processor, new RAW file format, a swivel screen, and more.