Cool Stuff

RicInOR · Apr 20, 2020

Reminds me, I need a couple of new ones.
My summer attire, including on the range.

The History of the Hawaiian Shirt

From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement

www.smithsonianmag.com

RicInOR · Apr 23, 2020

RicInOR · May 4, 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoolGadgetsTube/comments/gdfryo

Lazyfaire · May 4, 2020

RicInOR said:
WATCH: Israeli Team of Researchers Restore 20/20 Vision with Nanotechnology

They only ask for your money. Too bad. could use this.

RicInOR · Jun 8, 2020

This was used as a story line in the TV show Longmire

Multimillionaire Forrest Fenn's hidden treasure, worth $1 million, has been found in the Rocky Mountains

Famed art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who hid $1 million in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday ...

dailytimewaster.blogspot.com

RicInOR · Jun 17, 2020

You Can Now Buy Spot the Robot Dog—If You've Got $74,500

The robot is meant to be a flexible platform: Boston Dynamics has spent many years refining the hardware and software that give the robot incredible mobility, but attachments will help qualify Spot for specific jobs. A software development kit allows operators to further customize how the robot behaves and senses its world, incorporating computer vision models, for instance, to detect certain landmarks around a job site.

RicInOR · Jun 17, 2020

It goes to 11.

RicInOR · Jun 20, 2020

Drives thru various Cities.

Drive & Listen

Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world. Istanbul, Berlin, London, Paris, New York City and many more

driveandlisten.herokuapp.com

RicInOR · Jul 27, 2020

bookofjoe: Why slicing a tomato with a dull knife is so frustrating

"Surprisingly, although physicists had a general idea of why sawing with a knife helps cut soft material, no one had really looked at the details.

Luckily, this oversight has been corrected and you can now optimize your cutting technique using — as certain radio personalities put it — the power of science."

RicInOR · Aug 7, 2020

UK and German Researchers Create Aluminum-ceramic Material That Can't Be Cut

" The lightweight substance consists of ceramic spheres surrounded by a cellular aluminum structure, which combine to render cutting tools — including angle grinders, drills, and high-pressure water jets — ineffective. "

From the headline, makes you wonder what is ti good for. Or like the old joke.
Scientist - I just invented an acid that eats thru everything.
Engineer - What do you keep it in?

awshoot · Aug 7, 2020

RicInOR said:
UK and German Researchers Create Aluminum-ceramic Material That Can't Be Cut

" The lightweight substance consists of ceramic spheres surrounded by a cellular aluminum structure, which combine to render cutting tools — including angle grinders, drills, and high-pressure water jets — ineffective. "

From the headline, makes you wonder what is ti good for. ...

Safes.

RicInOR · Aug 10, 2020

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Yep, 2mm thick. Mechanical.

bookofjoe: World's thinnest mechanical watch (2mm) that can actually be used

RicInOR · Aug 10, 2020

3d Printed Homes

These cute backyard houses can be entirely 3D-printed

Even the roof.

www.fastcompany.com

RicInOR · Aug 11, 2020

Researchers release free AI-powered Fawkes image privacy tool for 'cloaking' faces

sobo · Aug 11, 2020

Seems like it works swimmingly...

awshoot · Aug 11, 2020

sobo said:
Seems like it works swimmingly...

It's pretty interesting -- it messes with the image in ways the human eye cannot see but which impairs automated face recognition software's ability to correctly identify the person.

... the goal of their utility is 'to mislead rather than frustrate.' Whereas a simple corruption of data in an image could make it possible for companies to detect and remove the images from their training model, the cloaked images imperceptibly 'poison' the model in a way that can't be easily detected or removed.

As a result, the facial recognition model loses accuracy fairly quickly and its ability to detect that person in other images and real-time observation drops to a low level.

RicInOR · Aug 12, 2020

A very useful site, OneLook amalgamates zillions of dictionaries so you can compare definitions.

Example:

amalgamates: OneLook Thesaurus and Reverse Dictionary

Synonyms and related words for amalgamates from OneLook Thesaurus, a powerful English thesaurus and brainstorming tool that lets you describe what you're looking for in plain terms.

onelook.com

sobo · Aug 12, 2020

awshoot said:
It's pretty interesting -- it messes with the image in ways the human eye cannot see but which impairs automated face recognition software's ability to correctly identify the person.

That's why I put the "eyeroll" emoji on it. I couldn't see any difference between the original and the altered pics. I thought it didn't work, based upon what I could "see"...

CamoDeafie · Aug 12, 2020

It's both easy to fool human eyes, and very hard for machines to replicate what the human eyes can see; to say nothing about the impressive eyes of a mantis shrimp