This was something that is just too perfectly timed not to catch my attention – I'm looking into using my wysiwyg Perform into a pre-visualization studio for myself (and perhaps others), and the two consoles I wanna run are the Road Hog Full Boar and the grandMA. Translation from Jim to English: the two consoles I [...]
Read More console, GrandMA, grandMA2, MA Lighting, onPC, playback, Programming, USBI wrote an article about a paper I read in the journal Science a few weeks ago – the article was about Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by A Slow Light Medium. I got two handfuls of emails about the article, so I got in contact with one of the original paper's editors, Sonja Franke-Arnold. When [...]
Read More anisotropic, calcite, Crazy Friday Science, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-ArnoldOk, first – this is so effing cool that I am excited to try to DIY my own for those times when I'm out biking in the dark. My good buddy Erich Friend from Teqniqal Systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area sent me the initial article about this thing below – Erich is a technology [...]
Read More bicycle, cycle gear, cycling, Emily Brooke, light, safety, safety light, University of BrightonRemember that scene in the Jody Foster movie called Contact when they got all of those drawings of "the machine?" There was a part of the movie where Ellie realized that the images were encoded somehow, and the key to encoding them was by looking at them in three dimensions. Remember that minute little detail? [...]
Read More anisotropic, calcite, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-ArnoldIf you follow the L-Prize competition, you would have noticed an interesting entry that GE is going to be making – and is currently in development. GE (General Electric, NYSE:GE) is entering a 60W LED replacement lamp using Cree LED emitters as the light source. This is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself [...]
Read More Cree, Department of Energy, GE, General Electric, L-Prize, Lighting Prize, NASDAQ, NYSEYou know, for the most part, I've been pretty unimpressed with the designs of the A-lamp "replacement" LED lamps. I'm not shooting my mouth off saying I have a much better design, but there is something about that diffused white globe atop the heat sink, which looks like a handful of fins. I actually kinda [...]
Read More A-Lamp, incandescent replacement, lamp, light source, switchI am so excited to bring this to the web! I'm even more excited to put the work of a true DIY artisan out there to the world. All I know is that you need to hire this guy if you have something that needs done like he can do. I want you to meet [...]
Read More DIY, Gadgets, hacks, light, Mac Millan, Make, props, steampunkMy old (and still awesome) friend Derek Heckler sent me this video that you all have to watch – seriously, watch this video! Bill Hammack (from Engineer Guy, also a professor at the University of Illinois) made this video, and I have to say that it is one of the best videos on breaking down [...]
Read More Bill Hammack, breakdown, EngineerGuy, LCD monitors, LCDTV, liquid crystalWhoa – a laser story that doesn't involve someone mounting a man-killing laser on top of some kind of vehicle?! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Professor Douglas Stone and his team of Yale scientists have discovered a way to get material to nearly completely absorb laser light. They've developed this thing – more of a material, [...]
Read More absorption, anti-laser, coherent, Laser, Professor A. Douglas Stone, R+D, YaleOkay, this is just excellent. I found this in a forum called The Daft Club – the creator's name is Agent RayBans on that forum. Great job, mang! At the end of the post are the full-sized images. Make sure to give credit where credit is due. Agent RayBans, great work! Here's the first image, [...]
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