Real Life Light Sabers By Wicked Lasers
Crossing over from fiction, these Star Wars weapons are now real. Wicked Lasers have always produced high powered lasers that do real damage, now they’ve combined that with this saber to produce a powerful light saber.
This sounds pretty dangerous and fun, but mostly dangerous.
Get ready to wield the world’s first and only LaserSaber! A radiant saber pulsing with laser powered energy. The LaserSaber is energized by the awesome light of the S3 Krypton & Arctic handheld WickedLaser. Featuring an ultra smooth magnetic gravity system that can “power up” and “power down”, the LaserSaber is the next evolution in harnessing pure laser power.
Intense laser brightness ensures The LaserSaber maintains its radiance regardless of the surrounding ambient light. The LaserSaber is interchangeable and will attach to any S3 model. The aircraft grade aluminum hilt ensures secure attachment to your Krypton or Arctic Handheld Laser. Due to the extreme power of the S3, ensure to operate while wearing LaserShades and in a controlled environment.
- Made in the USA
- 32” strong polycarbonate blade.
- Smooth light up and down effect.
- Hard anodized T6061 aircraft grade aluminum hilt.
- No sound effects
- Spyder 3 sold separately
* Do not participate in any form of fencing or swordplay. Fencing or swordplay will cause serious damage to people, pets or property.
* LaserSaber is a registered trademark of Wicked Lasers. Wicked Lasers and its products are not affiliated with Lucasfilm or Star Wars.
3.2 Billion Pixel Camera With Over 189 Sensors
Hey pixel peepers, peep this!
Even though it’s for space use, it’s fascinating to see what’s going on in the world of image capture.
A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera, which will capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed, has received “Critical Decision 1” approval by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to move into the next stage of the project.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will survey the entire visible sky every week, creating an unprecedented public archive of data – about 6 million gigabytes per year, the equivalent of shooting roughly 800,000 images with a regular eight-megapixel digital camera every night, but of much higher quality and scientific value. Its deep and frequent cosmic vistas will help answer critical questions about the nature of dark energy and dark matter and aid studies of near-Earth asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, the structure of our galaxy and many other areas of astronomy and fundamental physics.
With 189 sensors and over 3 tons of components that have to be packed into an extremely tight space, you can imagine this is a very complex instrument,” said Nadine Kurita, the project manager for the LSST camera at SLAC. “But given the enormous challenges required to provide such a comprehensive view of the universe, it’s been an incredible opportunity to design something so unique.”
Thanks to Kevin for the find!
Tupac Shakur Performs ‘Hail Mary’ and ‘2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted’ at Coachella 2012 In The Form Of A Hologram With Snoop Dog.
(Language Warning)
With technology becoming better and better, it appears holographic performances will be integrated into our future.
Tupac Shakur is alive, at least in holographic form. He performs here with Snoop Dog at Coachella (http://www.coachella.com/).
Here’s another video:
We may start seeing this happen more and more. Especially with the popularity of the recent Hatsune Miku performance below.
What’s next? You may see bands like the Gorillaz or every musician you’ve ever wanted to see come back.
Beatles, anyone?
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Thank you to Gary for the find and Media assistance by Max and Aden.
Micro Empire: Subcellular Videography Of One Drop Of Water
Clemens Wirth shows us what’s in one drop of water. Yes, all of This was all through one drop of water. We hold worlds of life on the tip of our fingers.
I have never been so engaged with wonder and horrified at the same time. If I could come up with a word that encompassed these emotions, I would use it now.
The setup:
A 5dmarkII on tripod was attached to a monocolar microscope with an adapter.
Time to buy a monocolar microscope!
![Beautiful Images Of Earth From Space
These images made me realize how foreign our own planet still looks to us.
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, who is currently on a expedition on the International Space Station, shares his incredible photography from space. More than just landscape photography, Kuipers lends the rest of us still on our home planet his incredible perspective from 400 kilometers above Earth.
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Beautiful Images Of Earth From Space
These images made me realize how foreign our own planet still looks to us.
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, who is currently on a expedition on the International Space Station, shares his incredible photography from space. More than just landscape photography, Kuipers lends the rest of us still on our home planet his incredible perspective from 400 kilometers above Earth.
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The Robot Built To Replicate A Human Body: FET11 - ECCE
Oh no, this doesn’t make us feel uneasy at the least bit. Skynet loves this.
The ECCE Robot is from budapest, where it should stay before it kills us all.
Aside from the slight paranoia of robots getting too real, it shows a huge improvement on how real these robots are becoming. Combine this with the running robot, and the robot that has a realistic human face, and we’re one step from creating our own species.
Google Glass: Overlapping Computing And The Internet With Real Life (Augmented Reality)
These glasses are what Google has in mind for the future. They’ve already started their ‘Project Glass’ page to open up discussions from what you would like to see done.
From the video posted above, we already get a clear view of the full initial intent of these glasses. It overlaps what we already do with out smartphones right over the world we see with our eyes.
You can already imagine that this is just the beginning. There are tons of possibilities. Even something as simple as seeing the speed limit in the corner of your vision without looking down while driving. You see where the possibilities start.
The prototype version Google showed off on Wednesday looked like a very polished and well-designed pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits above the eye. The glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the wearer to send and receive messages through voice commands. There is also a built-in camera to record video and take pictures.
We’re excited to see what they come out with after initial testing.
Imagine if they were secretly recording what you were looking at? That makes current privacy issues seem minor in comparison.
Source: The New York Times
