An interesting new pool table called the Obscura CueLight is making waves for its unique use of video technology to enhance the player’s experience.
Currently set up at the Esquire Ultimate Bachelor pad, the Obscura CueLight is quite an amazing demonstration of technology. It uses sensors and motion detectors to manipulate images as you move the balls around the table. While the table is currently set up to reveal a hidden image, that’s just one potential use of the technology. It can also be configured to trail flames behind the balls, or even project a pool of water on the table that ripples as the balls move over it.
The good news is that the system itself only costs $80,000. It just happens to be mounted on a table that costs $125,000. So the question is, would it work on the $75 table you picked up at a garage sale?
Watch this video in HD (it’s far better that way).
It’s not uncommon for YouTube users to upload videos containing copyrighted music. In fact, it happens so frequently that Google has developed systems to find and disable/mute such infringing videos. Rather then see the potential promotional benefits of fan made videos, record labels have generally claimed these uploads are hurting their profits. Anti-piracy organizations such as the RIAA, BPI and CRIA actively patrol websites like YouTube, searching for infringing content and forcing it’s removal.
In one instance, songwriter Calvin Harris found that a video clip he uploaded himself had been disabled for copyright infringement. The problem content: one of his own songs. As the recording industry seems to be doing similar things all the time, it’s nice to hear of an instance where common sense prevailed… although in this case it’s not the record labels who have seen the light.
You know you’ve always wanted to do this… but you never did. One package of Double Stuffed Oreos has thirty-six cookies. Each cookie is “double stuffed” which means there is enough of the good stuff in there for seventy-two Oreo cookies. So what would you call it if you stacked all that gooey goodness into ONE MASSIVE COOKIE? According to http://home.comcast.net/~igpl/NWR.html, the answer is a Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo.
British photographer Justin Quinnell is making waves with an amazing six month exposure he made in Bristol, England of the sun rising and falling over the city’s famous suspension bridge.
He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device — a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of photo paper inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from December 19, 2007 to June 21, 2008. If those dates sound familiar (or astronomically significant), they are — they’re the winter and summer solstices, respectively.
The lowest arc in the photo is the sun’s trail on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. The highest arc is the summer solstice. The lines which are punctuated by dots represent overcast days when the sun penetrated the clouds only intermittently.
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