Day: February 3, 2014

Art

These vinyl records hide secret music videos

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Audio-visual group Sculpture creates vinyl picture records that appear to animate when viewed unders the correct conditions, and its latest is gorgeous. When you start “Plastic Infinite” spinning, the images on the record just look like a blur. Apply a strobing light to the record, or film it at 25fps with a high shutter speed, and the record is transformed into a giant zoetrope disc.   This isn’t Sculpture‘s first foray…

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Culture Security

PSA: Missed Call From A Mystery Number? Be Careful.

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that might be new for you: scammers are apparently trying to exploit your “missed call” screen, now. The scam, simplified: They call you, but immediately hang up. You see a missed call. You call back. They charge you for the…

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Application Culture

iCPooch Is A Remote Treat Dispenser & Pet Facetime Terminal For Absent Dog Owners

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Natasha Lomas Last summer we covered Petzila’s answer to keeping a pet pooch happy when you’re not at home: a remote treat dispenser called PetziConnect which also let absent dog owners view and talk to their pooch while delivering treats from afar. Fast forward a few months and prepare to greet iCPooch: another gizmo aiming for the not-so-stay-at-home dog owner, but one which takes the remote petting to the next obvious level: doggy facetime. iCPooch,…

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Hardware Dev Photography

A closer look at the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Okay, that’s it. You’ve had enough of highly compressed video codecs that crap out on detailed shots and make decent color grading a pipe dream. Now that Blackmagic’s $995 Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC) is RAW-ready, isn’t it time to make the jump to higher bitrate video? Perhaps. The company’s latest pint-sized weapon does produce magnificent images using a downsized version of its first Cinema Camera sensor, yes. But it’s not quite as…

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Apple Hardware Dev

Apple reportedly testing inductive, solar and motion charging for its unannounced smartwatch

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  We’ve heard that when Apple reveals its first smartwatch product, there’s going to be a heavy focus on health and fitness, but There might also be a way to charge the wearable without plugging it in, according to a report from the New York Times. Inductive charging came in a wave of smartphones last year, including Google’sNexus 4 and Nokia’s Lumia 920 range, although we don’t often see it in anything smaller…

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