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The HoloFlex is a flexible, glasses-free 3D display via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1WeQvLT

ResetPlug is a $60 device to keep you trapped in crappy Wi-Fi hell via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1SVdbyH

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Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos

Research from University of Princeton Department of Computer Science demonstrating method to alter portrait selfies as distant camera shots through computation to improve appearance of subject:

This paper introduces a method to modify the apparent relative pose and distance between camera and subject given a single portrait photo. Our approach fits a full perspective camera and a parametric 3D head model to the portrait, and then builds a 2D warp in the image plane to approximate the effect of a desired change in 3D. We show that this model is capable of correcting objectionable artifacts such as the large noses sometimes seen in “selfies,” or to deliberately bring a distant camera closer to the subject. This framework can also be used to re-pose the subject, as well as to create stereo pairs from an input portrait. We show convincing results on both an existing dataset as well as a new dataset we captured to validate our method.

The official website for the project can be found here

A website of interactive demonstrations of results can be found here

VIDEO: Breakthrough tech lets single antenna WiFi system get double the speeds at half the size

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Sony developing movie based on internet meme ‘Slender Man’ via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1SXKptR

Tamm Dock and Desk Organizer - http://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/tamm-dock-desk-organizer/

Luxury Wood Design iPhone Case from VEASOON - http://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/luxury-wood-design-iphone-case-veasoon/

NAO and Pepper Humanoid Robot Paper Toys Free Templates Download

CES 2016 highlights: Make your TV disappear via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1O7FARR

SOSPENDO – The Best Wearable Support for Mobile Devices - http://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/sospendo/

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You can help fight Alzheimer’s and dementia by playing this game

A new mobile game boasts a much more rewarding goal than farming for imaginary crops or crushing candy: By playing “Sea Hero Quest” for as little as two minutes, researchers say, you could supply doctors with the equivalent of five hours of lab research on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. While playing won’t help find a cure, it could make many lives much better.

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VIDEO: ‘The Nostalgist’ short film about the future will leave you wanting more

This metal foam can turn speeding bullets into dust

Scientists have developed a lightweight metal foam which can turn speeding armour-piercing bullets into dust in the blink of an eye.

The revolutionary material has applications in a number of areas, from the battlefield to space exploration and nuclear waste storage.

Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at North Carolina State University, has spent her career working on composite metal foams, or CMFs. …

The ‘Himiko’ water bus of Tokyo [1600 x 821]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/C2fpYM5.jpg

The World’s Smartest and Smallest Lamp Socket Adaptor http://gdfl.co/Anyware

The original cast of Star Trek in front of the original Enterprise

During the Apollo 17 mission, in 1972, the rear fender of the lunar rover broke and lunar dust soon became a problem. This is how astronauts Cernan and Schmitt repaired the fender, with clamps, duct tape and lunar maps. [3000 x 3000]

Source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/hires/as17-137-20979.jpg

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The end of reefs

Climate scientists speak of “tipping points” regarding the way the planet will respond to increasing greenhouse gases. Tipping points are “points of no return” – where the time it will take for the planet to recover is measured not in human lifetimes but in geologic time.

There are obvious examples of these. If the Greenland or Antarctic Ice Sheets were to completely collapse, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to regrow them. If large amounts of methane-bearing ice were destabilized, releasing the methane to the atmosphere and causing runaway heating (as likely happened 56 million years ago), that is another kind of tipping point.

Well I have some bad news. The 2015-2016 El Niño is a tipping point. The planet Earth is now on a path to no longer having live coral reefs.

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