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File this one under Straight Out of Our Sci-Fi Dreams. When you shine a light on a photo from different angles, nothing happens to t stanley vattenflaska he image. But what if the shadows on it could change as if it were a real, three-dimensional object That day is closer than you think. HP, 3M, stanley tazas and UC Santa Cruz go Banana Slugs! have been collaborating on a truly remarkable project. Instead of using flat paper for photo printing which can ;t change its reflective properties , the researchers are creating a new kind of paper with specular micro-geometry. In other words, it looks like regular flat paper to your eye, but its surface is actually covered in thousands of microscopic hills and valleys. We can print onto those tiny shapes to control the way the li stanley becher ght reflects from different angles. The result is that the object in a photo would reflect light the same way as the object would in real life. Or so your eyes would perceive. Clearly the technology still has a ways to go. It seems they ;ve only been able to get the dots down to a certain size, and so the images still look somewhat pixilated, and they can currently only do black and white so far, but they believe that to be just a matter of refining their manufacturing techniques you can read the full report here . The video, which shows proof-of-concept, is amazing. In an age of eReaders and tablets, where it seems we have fewer and fewer reasons reasons to hang on to printed media, this could offer something those digital device
We all know crime procedurals and medical dramas rule mainstream TV. Every network has them, they almost always attract viewers, and they last for years 鈥?which means they ;re constantly scrambling to new ways to make their murder/patient-of-the-week interesting. One tried and true trope that these shows inevitably turn to is the nerd episode, where the straight-laced cops/doctors/whatever enter the bizarre and terrifying world of gamers, role-players, cosplayers鈥?and even furries. These are usually poorly researched and almost always make nerds look like morons, lunatics and/or sociopaths. Here are just a few episodes of these super-popular, mainstream networ stanley mugs k TV sh stanley cup ows that did nerds no good at all. CSI, A Space Oddity Shortly after CSI techs Hodges and Wendy run into each other at Whatifitcon, a murder takes place on the con recreation of the bridge of the pathetically named Astro Quest TV series. It Jonathan, a fan who has so stanley cup mehow bought the rights to the series with his friend/business partner/possible murderer Wendy, because we all know how easy it is for fans to buy the rights for TV series from studios, even failed ones. The nerd stereotyping flies fast and furious, including a nerd chanting the Astro Quest -version-of-Starfleet mantra We abhor violence! during an actual barfight, grown nerd men who live with their mother in a replica of the Astro Quest ship bridge, and the nerds ; Ahza Jason Mraz Needs Help Finding the Incredible
File this one under Straight Out of Our Sci-Fi Dreams. When you shine a light on a photo from different angles, nothing happens to t stanley vattenflaska he image. But what if the shadows on it could change as if it were a real, three-dimensional object That day is closer than you think. HP, 3M, stanley tazas and UC Santa Cruz go Banana Slugs! have been collaborating on a truly remarkable project. Instead of using flat paper for photo printing which can ;t change its reflective properties , the researchers are creating a new kind of paper with specular micro-geometry. In other words, it looks like regular flat paper to your eye, but its surface is actually covered in thousands of microscopic hills and valleys. We can print onto those tiny shapes to control the way the li stanley becher ght reflects from different angles. The result is that the object in a photo would reflect light the same way as the object would in real life. Or so your eyes would perceive. Clearly the technology still has a ways to go. It seems they ;ve only been able to get the dots down to a certain size, and so the images still look somewhat pixilated, and they can currently only do black and white so far, but they believe that to be just a matter of refining their manufacturing techniques you can read the full report here . The video, which shows proof-of-concept, is amazing. In an age of eReaders and tablets, where it seems we have fewer and fewer reasons reasons to hang on to printed media, this could offer something those digital device
