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We regularly receive emails from readers confused as to the actual size of sensor used in digital cameras. Sensors (CCD / CMOS) are often refered to with an imperial fraction designation such as 1/1.8" or 2/3", this measurement actually originates back in the 1950’s and the time of Vidicon tubes. Those who find the specification…
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8bitfuture: Microsoft patent describes video games projected onto an entire room. Microsoft’s Future Immersive Gaming System describes an idea for a gaming system that uses an HDTV as a primary display, with a peripheral image projected onto other surfaces in the room to immerse the player in the game. The peripheral image appearing on the…
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In the old days, we used to just call these ‘bad ideas’. The new name is much more diplomatic. Anti Pattern (via thisway)
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prosthetic knowledge: Eye-tracking Fine Art: Odalisque a la culotte grise (Matisse), and the proposal of the “opsieme”
prosthetic knowledge: Eye-tracking Fine Art: Odalisque a la culotte grise (Matisse), and the proposal of the “opsieme” prostheticknowledge: a – the original b – areas of interest c – foveal and perifoveal visions Jean Paul Courchia proposes the idea of the “opsieme”, a visual unit equivalent to the ‘phoneme’ and ‘graphemes’ used to deconstruct sounds…
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The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind | KurzweilAI
The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind | KurzweilAI smarterplanet: (Credit: Nano Retina) Bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market — first in Europe, and hopefully soon in the U.S., ExtremeTech reports. These implants can restore sight to completely blind patients — though only if the blindness is caused by a…
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curiosity counts: Why You Can’t Resist The Pull Of Another Person’s Gaze
curiosity counts: Why You Can’t Resist The Pull Of Another Person’s Gaze curiositycounts: At just the moment the magician swaps the position of two cards in her left hand, she looks across deliberately and misleadingly to her right hand and your attention follows. You can’t help it. You see where she’s looking and your attention…
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lonegunman: via xkcd: Visual Field
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becoming-wave: (via The Humans With Super Human Vision | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine) An average human, utterly unremarkable in every way, can perceive a million different colors. Vermilion, puce, cerulean, periwinkle, chartreuse—we have thousands of words for them, but mere language can never capture our extraordinary range of hues. Our powers of color vision derive…
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explore-blog: A/B, a kind of manifesto for the evolution of critical design by Dunne and Raby
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. The Creative Act – Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 masterpiece, read by the artist himself. (via explore-blog)