Category Archives: Video

Are HP computers racist?

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According to a computer store employee HP computer are racist against black people because their video camera software cannot recognize or track black faces.  White faces have no problem being recognized, as evidenced in this video.  HP responded to this rather awkward issue:

“We are working with our partners to learn more. The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek and nose. We believe that the camera might have difficulty “seeing” contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting.”

[Via Gizmodo]

New Lost: The Final Season promos

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Get pumped for the final season of Lost with these new televised promos.  The first is an extended 60-second commercial that features Willie Nelson’s “Saving Grace” and plays memorable moments from all five seasons.  The second is a commercial shown in Spain on their Cuatro channel.  “Peridos” features Radio Head’s “Everything in its Right Place” and includes a unique animated chessboard tie-in.  Enjoy my fellow Losties.  The return is upon us.  /020210/

[Via IGN, here & here]

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Tesla coils make good entertainment

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Ah the tesla coil.  Invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891.  Technically speaking, “it is used to produce high voltage, relatively high current, high frequency alternating current electricity.”  Although its traditional use includes conducting experiments in electrical lighting, x-ray generation, and other high frequency alternating current phenomena, today tesla coils are constructed and used by enthusiasts for our entertainment.  With proper manipulation, the electrical current can display a wondrous light show and even spark to a specific song (in this video, the Zelda theme).  This particular tesla coil professional adds to the excitement with balloons that pop after being ignited with fire.  Cool stuff.

[Via Gizmodo; Wiki]

“The Known Universe”

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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

It’s true; we are but a speck of beings living in a limitless and expansive universe.

[Via Gizmodo]

Another ‘zine publisher joins the push towards digital media

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The publishers at Popular Magazine have joined the digital revolution in print media with their rendition of a concept tablet device displaying their magazine in a digitized form.  PopSci publisher Bonnier teamed up with design agency BERG to create this mock tablet called Mag+ that does its best to recreate the magazine in a digital environment.  Bonnier joins Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated and Conde Nast’s Wired in the movement towards a digital future for magazines.  If this is indeed the future for magazines and even newspapers, I say bring it on.  Technology and interactivity could be long sought solution for keeping print media alive in a digital age ruled by the Internet.

[Via Gizmodo]