Think engineering, think dry wipe boards covered in calculations, bridges and cluttered lab experiments. Then take a quick skim through the gallery of images from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering’s 2012 Photography Competition, and all preconceived ideas of the world of engineering will be blown away.

Originally envisaged nine years ago as a project that might offer University of Cambridge staff and students “a little bit of … Read More → "Striking engineering photos hold their own as works of art"

LG wanted to show off how realistic the image on their new IPS monitors is, so they decided to play a prank and scare the crap out of a bunch of people.

They replaced the floor in an elevator with a grid of nine monitors that look like floor tiles, then the “floor” falls away just as the elevator starts to move leaving an image of the elevator shaft.
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The notion that a home entertainment center must be in your actual home is antiquated. With an off-the-shelf adapter and a few apps loaded onto an Android phone or tablet, users can stream movies, TV shows, and videogames from remote computers or media services to a television. That means you can fully re-create the experience of being at home when you’re at a friend’ … Read More → "Turn an Android device into a pocket-size media center"

When it comes to controlling our computers, the last five years has seen incredible improvements in user interfaces including amazing touch screens and much more natural vocal recognition. Now, a Toronto company wants to take the UI to the next level — by going directly to the brain. You think it, and the Muse headband will make it happen under very limited circumstances.

InteraXon, the maker of the Muse headband (seen above), has listed it device on Indiegogo in hopes of raising $150,000 for building out a mass-produced headband that translates your mental commands into … Read More → "Use your brainwaves to control your computer"

Just in case you haven’t had your fill of PSY’s viral K-POP sensation, the researchers at Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) have put out a new video of their robot dancing Gangnam Style. While the robot named CHARLI-2 doesn’t display any fancy footwork in the video, some of its walking and balancing technology is being implemented in the Navy’s Autonomous Shipboard Humanoid (ASH).

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According to the photographer Wally Skalij, the kids are Traymond Harris, left, and Ryan Hudge, right. They were playing as Endeavour played its own game: going the obstacle race course that took her through Los Angeles’ streets, en route to the California Science Center.
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According to the photographer Wally Skalij, the kids are Traymond Harris, left, and Ryan Hudge, right. They were playing as Endeavour played its own game: going the obstacle race course that took her through Los Angeles’ streets, en route to the California Science Center.
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Image by Wally Skalij/Getty Images</ … Read More → "The ultimate photobomb"

According to the photographer Wally Skalij, the kids are Traymond Harris, left, and Ryan Hudge, right. They were playing as Endeavour played its own game: going the obstacle race course that took her through Los Angeles’ streets, en route to the California Science Center.
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Image by Wally Skalij/Getty Images</ … Read More → "The ultimate photobomb"

According to the photographer Wally Skalij, the kids are Traymond Harris, left, and Ryan Hudge, right. They were playing as Endeavour played its own game: going the obstacle race course that took her through Los Angeles’ streets, en route to the California Science Center.
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Just getting a job in this economy is difficult enough. Getting one with a liberal arts degree is simply masochistic. Don’t spend half a decade and thousands of dollars only to join the rest of the English majors busking in a subway. Instead, educate yourself with these valuable, respectable, and totally free online resources.
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