solsticeretouch:

Science Fiction Meets Reality: Interactive Transparent LCD Computing

Your current world is about to look incredibly outdated when you see this video.

What do you get when you combine MIT and Microsoft? You get something truly ingenious.  

I can already see the direction that the future is going to go in when seeing this video. 

MIT student Jinha Lee designed a prototype as an intern in the Microsoft Applied Sciences Group which allows a user to physically interact with the objects on a transparent screen. Moving windows forward and backward with your fingers, cameras sense where the users hands are and allows for a true 3D interaction with the content on (or is that “in”) the screen. Linking the pixellated world and that of humans is something that has been dreamed up many times before — with movies like Tron taking the concept as far as it could — to a whole digital world beyond the physical.

The display is transparent, and it recognizes where your hands are in space. Then the display overlays a space that lets you adjust it with your hands. So you ‘virtually’ grab things, rotate them, and so forth. Furthermore, the space itself moves so it replicates what it would look like in real life when looking around objects. 

Just watch, it will make more sense. 

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ikenbot:

Color of the Moon

Sheena Iyenger tells you how to make decisions more easily.

rhamphotheca:

Repulsive Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Energy?

by Lisa Zyga

When scientists discovered in 1998 that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the possibility that dark energy could explain the observation was intriguing. But because there has been little progress in figuring out exactly what dark energy is, the idea has since become more of a problem than a solution for some scientists.

One physicist, Massimo Villata of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Pino Torinese, Italy, describes dark energy as “embarrassing,” saying that the concept is an ad hoc element to standard cosmology and is devoid of any physical meaning. Villata is one of many scientists who are looking for new explanations of the Universe’s accelerating expansion that involve some form of repulsive gravity. In this case, the repulsive gravity could stem from antimatter hiding in voids.

“Cosmic voids (and in particular the nearby Local Void) are observationally very well known and constitute the largest structures of which our Universe is composed,” Villata told PhysOrg.com. “The problem is whether they are really empty or contain the repulsive antimatter.”…

(read more: PhysOrg)     (image: Wiki Commons)

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More information: Massimo Villata. “Dark Energy’ in the Local Void.” Astrophysics and Space Science. DOI: 10.1007/s10509-012-0994-9 and arXiv:1201.3810v1 [astro-ph.CO]

Scale of the Universe

Really puts things in perspective.

Yay for science!

And it goes on.  Fast on the heels of the last incarnation and the original development of 3D printing, a more home-friendly model arrives to blow your fucking mind.

That’s right - 3D Printing.

fuckdanielmaitland:

Hole-Punch Clouds

A fallstreak hole, also known as a hole punch cloud is a large circular gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation particles. When a portion of the water does start to freeze it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water vapor around it to freeze and fall to the earth as wel This leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud.