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Scientists have made a map of the Americas from... DNA strands! They've also made other pictures, such as a smiley face and a trippy hexagon. I guess "DNA" is now a new.. genre, of art.
Posted by Lawrence at 3/16/2006 8:46:27 AM | 5 comments | Share
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PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.
Be sure to check out the other PixelRoller video and the other cool pixel related products such as the Pixel Tape!
Posted by Lawrence at 7/13/2006 7:17:15 AM | 3 comments | Share
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The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression is reported in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria. People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for criticising their government, calling for democracy and greater press freedom, or exposing human rights abuses, online.

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Posted by Lawrence at 7/20/2006 1:03:01 PM | 6 comments | Share
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Pictures which were painted by elephants have gone on display at an Edinburgh gallery. They include "self-portraits" by Paya, who is said to be the only elephant to have mastered his own likeness. Paya is one of six elephants whose keepers have taught them how to hold a paintbrush in their trunks. They drop the brush when they want a new colour.
Posted by Lawrence at 7/21/2006 1:39:09 PM | 15 comments | Share
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Microsoft's Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.

The technology works by scanning collections of photographs, which can be taken from different cameras at different times. It picks out distinctive features in each image and cross-references them against the other photographs, checking for similarities.

This allows it to pinpoint a feature's 3D position and to also calculate where the position of the camera would have been when the picture was taken.

Posted by Lawrence at 8/6/2006 9:06:28 AM | 7 comments | Share
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Arrays of thousands of tiny "super prisms" controlled by robotic muscles could bring real colour to TV screens for the first time, scientists say. The devices, known as electrically tunable diffraction gratings, have been built by researchers in Switzerland. They manipulate light to reproduce the full spectrum of colours on screen, impossible using existing technology.
Posted by Lawrence at 8/21/2006 2:46:47 AM | 3 comments | Share
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Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category. The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as the other planets. The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) decision means textbooks will now have to describe a Solar System with just eight major planetary bodies. Pluto, which was discovered in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh, will be referred to as a "dwarf planet".
Posted by Lawrence at 8/24/2006 11:28:25 AM | 19 comments | Share

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