Daily Archives: August 19, 2008

Frickin’ Lasers

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Robin

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The US Navy is going laser crazy!
They want:
Solid-State Fiber Laser
Free Electron Laser
High-Power Microwave Directed Energy Weapons
The Revolutionary Approach to Time-Critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS) Program
Next Generation Integrated Power Systems
Electromagnetic Railgun
Laser-based Landing Aids

and probably more. Where are the SWFLs*?
Anyway, this is all high on the Office of Naval Research’s list

*Sharks With Frickin’ Lasers – duh.

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Robin

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These students have built a program that will combine high res pictures of an environment and fuse them with a lower quality video of the same scene, raising the colour depth, resolution, clarity and detail of the scene as well as allowing you to remove objects, edit inline over all angles. It’s very very impressive, the demo film on the page is well worth watching.

The US shows the world how democracy works – again.

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Robin

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If you don’t vote the way we want, we can toss you out of your office and out of the building, even if you’re an assemblywoman!