Tens of thousands of photons go into making up each pixel in your standard cat photo That’s because e xisting cameras—even infrared night-vision ones—rely on many, many photons of light to create an image. But now physicists have photographed in almost pitch blackness, where there on average is less than one photon of light per pixel. Read more…
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Physicists Figure Out How to Take Photographs In Near-Total Darkness
Looks like Microsoft has removed the 2GB size limit for uploading files to OneDrive. You can now upload files of pretty much any size. “It’s an old limit that we’ve been working to remove for a long time now, ” a Microsoft manager told The Next Web . Good for us. [ The Next Web ] Read more…
Death is unfathomable and terrifying. We try to stave it off with vitamins, checkups, and exercise, to diminish the awful permanence with beliefs in afterlives and miracles. For some people, that’s not enough. There will be no accepting mortality for believers in cryonics, the process of preserving human bodies at low temperatures with hopes of one day reviving them. Read more…
If you’ve ever wondered how it’s possible to make decaf coffee—which you can buy in whole-bean form—when the caffeine is inside the damn bean , then you’re not alone. Fortunately, there is an answer, and it’s in this video. Read more…
If you combined the SkyMall catalog with the Christmas list of some spoiled rich kid you’d end up with Hammacher Schlemmer: an impossible menagerie of everything from shoe polishers, to talking scales, to this amazing set of underwater thrusters that you wear like a pair of Iron Man’s pants. If there’s a better way to spend $31, 000 we haven’t seen it. Read more…
A team of recent graduates from North Carolina State are developing a new kind of nail polish that changes color when it’s exposed to date rape drugs. Just stirring a sketchy drink with a finger could let a woman know she’s being targeted for assault. Although a little odd, it does sound like a pretty good idea. Read more…
We’ve been able to grow organs in labs for some time now. But what if you could grow them directly inside a living body just by injecting a few cells? It looks like now we can, at least in a limited way. Read more…
Scientists already know how to make a tasty tomato , but in the quest for mass production, there’s another barrier to overcome: how to make a tomato that grows 24 hours a day. Read more…
Summer Hack Day just wrapped up at Netflix headquarters, with company folks cranking out a whole bunch of silly, charming, harebrained ideas. Our favorite has got to be this Oculus Rift-powered, gesture-controlled setup. Pick your favorite movie or TV show like Professor X using Cerebro! Read more…