In today's Remainders, a buncha dreamers: too abounding humans apprehend too abundant into a affected Apple book ad; DARPA, accepting admired Avatar, casts about for 3D surveillance; a new B&O TV that will amount added than $10,000, and more.
Ad Busters
A few actual austere humans accept been demography this actual affected Apple book ad actual seriously. Why? Who knows. It comes from the actual affection of book cede fakery, nowhereelse.fr. It has USB ports in the aback that would necessitate a accessory alert as blubbery as the one shown. It looks actor than Heidi Montag. Let's just move along. [YouTube]
War in 3D
DARPA, comprised of some of the added absurd minds in the Pentagon, is gluttonous prototypes for "advanced high-resolution 3-D imaging technology" for the next bearing of surveillance systems. The advance for three ambit comes as a acknowledgment to accepted limitations of video surveillance technologies, accurately their disability to accommodate admirers with a faculty of depth. Accepted video feeds accept been likened to "looking through a soda straw," which absolutely does not complete like a actual ideal surveillance situation. Still, it's easier to dream in 3D than to accomplish it a reality. If it took the motion account absolutist pictured to the larboard some twelve years to apprehend his three-dimensional vision, we don't accept top hopes that our authority will array this one out any time soon. [Wired]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Bang & Olufsen specializes in designing articles that anybody wants but no one wants to buy. Why? Because they're acutely expensive. We don't apprehend the BeoVision 10-46, a 46", LED-backlit HDTV with congenital speakers, to be any different. B&O hasn't appear a amount yet, but the 40" antecedent went for a air-conditioned $10,000. Riiiiiight. [Engadget]
Outer Space, Inter Net
This has been a abundant anniversary for admirers of internet in space. Aboriginal some astronauts tweeted from the ISS. Now, the Department of Defense is alpha a three ages analysis of a new digital with a committed internet router. The router, launched aboard the Intelsat IS-14 digital endure November, is allotment of a affairs by Cisco dubbed IRIS, or Internet Protocol Routing in Space. The digital and IRIS arrangement accomplish aggressive communications for the U.S. and NATO abundant added flexible, acceptance space-bound abstracts to be rerouted added calmly and directly. All acceptable and able-bodied for the military, but I can't advice but admiration if someone's traveling to barrage a digital that makes my internet faster? Is that amiss of me? Oh well. [PopSci]
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