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Friday, April 23, 2010
How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up [Security]
How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up [Security]:
The next time you see someone with a make up style that puts David Bowie to shame, don't laugh too much. He or she may be cleverly fooling face recognition and detection systems with a crazy or asymmetrical design.
Confronting Violence Against the Elderly
Confronting Violence Against the Elderly:
Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on self defense classes for the elderly women in Korogocho, Nairobi, Kenya.
Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on self defense classes for the elderly women in Korogocho, Nairobi, Kenya.
Lufthansa offers engineer who lost 4G iPhone free ticket to Germany
Lufthansa offers engineer who lost 4G iPhone free ticket to Germany
Filed under: iPhone
Nicola Lange, Lufthansa's director of marketing and customer relations for the Americas, has posted a letter on his Twitter account to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the 4G iPhone prototype in a German beer hall in Redwood City, offering complimentary Business Class tickets to Munich.
'I recently read in the news that you lost a very special phone at a German beer bar in California,' the letter begins. It goes on to say Lange thinks Powell could use a break and offers him the tickets to Munich where he could literally pick up where he last left off.
A trip to Europe is always a great way to abandon your sorrows, but what might really help Powell right about now isn't free tickets. We're wondering if Lufthansa has any engineering positions available...
TUAWLufthansa offers engineer who lost 4G iPhone free ticket to Germany originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Filed under: iPhone
Nicola Lange, Lufthansa's director of marketing and customer relations for the Americas, has posted a letter on his Twitter account to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the 4G iPhone prototype in a German beer hall in Redwood City, offering complimentary Business Class tickets to Munich.'I recently read in the news that you lost a very special phone at a German beer bar in California,' the letter begins. It goes on to say Lange thinks Powell could use a break and offers him the tickets to Munich where he could literally pick up where he last left off.
A trip to Europe is always a great way to abandon your sorrows, but what might really help Powell right about now isn't free tickets. We're wondering if Lufthansa has any engineering positions available...
TUAWLufthansa offers engineer who lost 4G iPhone free ticket to Germany originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Canon Coffee Cup Pinhole Camera Lens
Canon Coffee Cup Pinhole Camera Lens:
You might have seen the coffee mug that looks like a Canon L Lens, but have you seen this camera lens that looks like a coffee mug?
This strange 150mm coffee cup pinhole lens was created by paradefotos, and actually works (though the photos are pretty blurry).
Unlike the L lens coffee mug, this coffee mug lens isn’t nearly as desirable, and probably won’t become the next “must have” camera item. Funny idea though.
Image credit: Coffee cup pinhole lens by paradefotos and used with permission
You might have seen the coffee mug that looks like a Canon L Lens, but have you seen this camera lens that looks like a coffee mug?
This strange 150mm coffee cup pinhole lens was created by paradefotos, and actually works (though the photos are pretty blurry).
Unlike the L lens coffee mug, this coffee mug lens isn’t nearly as desirable, and probably won’t become the next “must have” camera item. Funny idea though.
Image credit: Coffee cup pinhole lens by paradefotos and used with permission
Working Thumbnail-Sized Pinhole Camera
Working Thumbnail-Sized Pinhole Camera:
This amazing pinhole camera is so small that it’s amazing it actually works. It was created by Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr), the same guy who created the nifty printable 35mm cardboard pinhole camera we featured a while back.
Here are a couple more views of this extraordinary camera to give you a better idea of how it works:
To prove the camera is fully-functional, Capponi took the following photograph with it, titled “my little eye“:
The film used to capture this image was simple black and white photo paper.
Sadly, Capponi doesn’t have a tutorial out for making one of these amazing cameras (they would make fun conversation pieces), but hopefully he’ll post some explanation and/or instructions soon!
(via Gizmodo)
This amazing pinhole camera is so small that it’s amazing it actually works. It was created by Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr), the same guy who created the nifty printable 35mm cardboard pinhole camera we featured a while back.
Here are a couple more views of this extraordinary camera to give you a better idea of how it works:
To prove the camera is fully-functional, Capponi took the following photograph with it, titled “my little eye“:
The film used to capture this image was simple black and white photo paper.
Sadly, Capponi doesn’t have a tutorial out for making one of these amazing cameras (they would make fun conversation pieces), but hopefully he’ll post some explanation and/or instructions soon!
(via Gizmodo)
Lay's Changing Basic Shape of Salt Crystals for Healthier Potato Chips
Lay's Changing Basic Shape of Salt Crystals for Healthier Potato Chips: "
In fourth grade science class, we learned that sodium chloride always, always forms simple cube-shaped crystals. That was before a gang of mad potato chip scientists got their hands on it.
In response to the Food and Drug Administration's imminent consideration of regulating the amount of sodium food manufacturers can include in consumer goods, Pepsico, whose Frito-Lay division makes Lay's potato chips, is redesigning the good old salt molecule to make it healthier.
The salt crystals on potato chips only dissolve about 20 percent of the way on the tongue, while the center of each tiny cube-shaped crystal remains intact until after it's swallowed. Thus, most of the salt you're eating on your chips is not contributing to the taste of the chip, but it is dissolving further down your digestive tract and causing whatever the FDA alleges that increased dietary sodium intake causes.
The redesigned salt crystal, with more surface area, should dissolve completely on the tongue, thus theoretically allowing each chip to taste just as salty with only 20 percent as much salt.
'There was an opportunity for our scientists,' Pepsico's chief scientific officer Mehmood Khan said. 'If we could figure out a way of getting the salt crystals to dissolve faster, then we could decrease the amount of salt we put on a snack with no compromise on taste.'
Bio-Sensing Underwear Keeps Tabs on Your Body's Chemistry
Bio-Sensing Underwear Keeps Tabs on Your Body's Chemistry:
The sensor bands were manufactured using conventional screen-printing technology along with a textile substrate. But rather than normal ink, the researchers printed carbon electrodes directly onto the elastic band. They then stretched, twisted, and bent the waistband every which way to see how it would hold up. By the time their trials were done, they'd found a fairly reliable means of printing carbon electrodes right onto the fabric without any cracking or peeling in a way that should hold up to everyday wear and tear.
Bio-sensing briefs could be especially handy for helping elderly people keep an eye on their physiological indicators, but could also find applications in sports and the military. While the proof-of-concept measures only for hydrogen peroxide and NADH, a range of sensing technologies could be built into a waistband, warning of heat stroke in athletes or dehydration in soldiers on the march.
Whether or not such an undergarment could warn you that you're about to be hung up by your drawers remains to be seen.
[Analyst via MedGadget]
Finally, something to wear with your smart bio-watch: bio-sensing briefs with a strip of thick-film amperometric sensors printed right into the waistband. Why sensors in your skivvies? Aside from finally getting a clear measurement of the peak foot-pound force created by a Level 5 Atomic Wedgie, a small strip of biosensors pressed directly against your skin could monitor the body for a variety of biomarkers and other indicators, alerting the wearer that something is amiss.
A collaboration of researchers in the U.S. and Taiwan devised the sensor strips, which are textile ready and can conform to the stresses and deformations normally endured by articles of clothing. Just to prove the idea feasible, the team created sensors for NADH and H2O2 and printed them directly into the elastic waistband of a pair of whitey-tighties.The sensor bands were manufactured using conventional screen-printing technology along with a textile substrate. But rather than normal ink, the researchers printed carbon electrodes directly onto the elastic band. They then stretched, twisted, and bent the waistband every which way to see how it would hold up. By the time their trials were done, they'd found a fairly reliable means of printing carbon electrodes right onto the fabric without any cracking or peeling in a way that should hold up to everyday wear and tear.
Bio-sensing briefs could be especially handy for helping elderly people keep an eye on their physiological indicators, but could also find applications in sports and the military. While the proof-of-concept measures only for hydrogen peroxide and NADH, a range of sensing technologies could be built into a waistband, warning of heat stroke in athletes or dehydration in soldiers on the march.
Whether or not such an undergarment could warn you that you're about to be hung up by your drawers remains to be seen.
[Analyst via MedGadget]
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