The physical appearance of your bowel movements can already reveal a lot about your body’s digestive health , and color changes can even indicate more severe problems. But scientists at Rice University want to make it even easier to spot medical problems in your colon, by tinting your poop a rainbow of different… Read more…
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Scientists Want to Use Color-Changing Rainbow Poop to Diagnose Your Bowel Problems
My passport is navy blue. My family members’ passports from other countries are a deep forest green, maroon, or navy blue also. Thinking about it now, I don’t think I’ve ever seen, say, a hot pink passport. It turns out there’s a good reason for that, but it’s not what you think. Read more…
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Why Your Passport Is One of Four Colors
Wenting Zhu mixed together paint, alcohol, water, soda, and ink remover in weird combinations, stuck them under a microscope, and ended up with awesomely mesmerizing effects. Sometimes it’s beautiful and feels like you’re watching a kaleidoscope take focus, or seeing a star burst in a distant galaxy. Other times it… Read more…
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Mixing Liquids Under a Microscope Creates Wildly Colorful Worlds
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Watching the Movement of Colorful Coral Is Really Something Special
Want a display that can take any shape ? You might not need a factory to cut it for you in the future — may only need a pair of scissors and a steady hand. Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science has developed a flexible, organic/metal hybrid polymer display that you can cut without wrecking it. The technology only needs a few seconds of power to adjust to its new shape, and it even maintains its last information when you switch it off, a lot like e-paper. The existing design only displays in one color and has a limited display area. It’s easy to see the practical purposes even now, though. You could make your own clothes with integrated displays, or craft smart wearables that fit the exact shape of your wrist. The researchers also envision a world where you could change the colors of car interiors, sunglasses and windows thanks to displays that fit just about anything. Any such breakthrough is undoubtedly years away, but the very fact that it’s a possibility is noteworthy. Via: Science News Journal Source: NIMS
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You can cut this display with scissors
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but there are some colorful visuals you can trip out on if you can figure out how to stare the right way. Here’s a video that supposedly shows a camera gliding through the spectrum of a rainbow and making its way through ROYGBIV backwards. Read more…
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What It’s Like to Look Straight into a Rainbow
Nearly all fossils are stripped of their original color. But as a new study from Irish paleontologists shows, that doesn’t necessarily mean the colors aren’t still there. You just have to know where to look. Read more…
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Colorless Fossil Reveals True Colors of Ancient Snake
We’ve known about Square’s new NFC-friendly reader for a while, and now the point-of-sale gadget is available for use. Starting today, 100 merchants in “select cities” (quite a few, actually) will begin accepting NFC-driven payments like Apple Pay , Android Pay , Samsung Pay and those newfangled chip credit/debit cards . The reader is a square pad (of course) separate from the company’s usual POS setups and sliding readers, allowing you to hover your phone or insert a card to complete purchase. The unit is wireless and pairs with either a countertop system or Square’s free mobile app to handle the transactions. However, the new reader itself will set businesses back $49 in order to get started. For the initial rollout, look for the device at businesses in the following cities: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle, St. Louis Tampa, and Washington, D.C.
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Square’s new reader arrives to accept mobile payments and chip cards
We knew it was coming , but now it’s finally here. Samsung’s newly improved virtual reality headset, the Gear VR , is launching today in the US for $99 . This iteration of the Gear VR is, without a doubt, the most consumer-ready VR headset to date. One of its downsides is that it only works with Samsung’s latest smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 Edge+ — but that’s great news for people who own handsets. As you may recall, Samsung’s Gear VR is powered by Oculus software, and services like Hulu have already announced compatibility with the device. If you’re Stateside, you can grab the Gear VR now from retailers including Amazon and Best Buy . As for worldwide availability, an Oculus spokesperson says that will be announced “soon.” Source: Oculus
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Samsung’s consumer Gear VR is available now for $99
Virtual reality has officially become mainstream, as an Emmy has been awarded to a work created for a VR headset (the Oculus Rift DK2 ) for the first time. The Sleepy Hollow Virtual Reality Experience (below), co-produced by Fox and Toronto-based Secret Location, won in the “Interactive Media, User Experience and Visual Design” category. It debuted at Comic-Con, and gave thousands of Oculus Rift users the unique gift of seeing what it would be like to have their heads cut off and held aloft by the Headless Horseman. You can view it yourself on Oculus Share if you have a Rift DK2. Another Emmy was handed to the team behind the AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience app , a 360-degree video based on the singer’s Blank Space music video, which has been viewed over a billion times. The experience lets users look around the entire scene, follow Swift and look for hidden clues. However, it was designed for a smartphone or tablet and not a headset, so falls outside what most folks would call virtual reality. Nevertheless, Swift was clearly well pleased , and the awards will no doubt motivate producers and artists to create similar side projects and keep the VR snowball rolling. [Thanks, Felipe!] Filed under: Wearables , Facebook Comments Source: Fox Tags: Emmy, facebook, OculusRift, SecretLocation, SleepyHollow, video, VR, VRExperience
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‘Sleepy Hollow’ for Oculus wins first virtual reality Emmy