interesting 11.8.09
- The Big Picture: Martian landscapes – photos from the HiRISE camera on board NASA’s MRO
- ‘Miracle fruit’ turns sour things sweet
- Sony demos Interactive Communication Unit (ICU) – game controller to track motion and emotion
- How your brain sees virtual you
- DARPA Network Challenge: a competition utilizing the Internet & social networking – $40,000 cash prize to the 1st entrant to submit the latitude & longitude of all 10 balloons
- TED Talks: Paul Debevec explains the technology behind Digital Emily, a photo-real digital face [video]
- AIDA: Affective Intelligent Driving Agent: platform comprising of a personal robot & an intelligent navigation system – collaboration between Volkswagen & MIT
- IMFDB: The Internet Movie Firearms Database – find which guns were featured in movies, TV, & video games
- The Botany of Desire: Based on the book by Michael Pollan [PBS documentary]