100 Years of ships

Leap (new interface)

http://live.leapmotion.com/
Impressive.

Scan the World

Matterport is hiring:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3990109

MirageTable: Freehand Interaction on a Projected Augmented Reality Tabletop

Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Water Flow Simulation

Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects

Kinect-like system using your laptop’s built-in speaker & microphone

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128735-microsoft-creates-kinect-like-system-using-your-laptops-built-in-speaker-microphone

MatterPort

http://matterport.com/#video
Check out this video!
With only a simple device, you can walk around your room, and create a 3D model of it.
The music is nice as well. (Fits the "shut up and take my money" effect.)

Map Creation with Polygons

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

One Planet Per Star

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-010

Six year study shows, planets are a rule rather than an exception.. There are 100 billion planets in our galaxy.

I suppose this raises the possibility of meeting other intelligent species.

Can hardly wait.

Literally Lightning-Fast Video Capture

Optical Trick Inspired By Blue Morpho Butterfly

http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/never-before-seen-optical-trick-creates-ultra-secure-cash

Euclideon - Unlimited Detail Engine

An article covering the Unlimited Detail Engine:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/22/exploring-unlimited-detail.aspx

Why do we need Data Science?

https://plus.google.com/114723964985237592593/posts/KAnEjivD88j?imm_mid=0786ea&cmp=em-orm-strata-nov14-newsletter-direct

A little bit of history, tools data scientists use and used to use, opinions, and the future.

'Smallest fossil' in 3D

Researchers have documented the "smallest fossil" at the University of Manchester. Computed Tomography (CT) was used during the survey and the 3D image of the fossil was created by the combination of the 2D images. Nice work!

source and link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15655567

How Dark Sky Works

What is Dark Sky?

An accurate short-term weather predictor. (By short-term: half or one hour.)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali?

And now here is a post about how it works:

http://blog.jackadam.net/2011/how-dark-sky-works/

Tanks turn invisible

here is an interesting military research...

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDk5cA8JUIQ

Spying for Profits

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872/

HoloDesk

3D models in archive photos

http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/10/cool-tech-demo-match-3d-models-into-archive-photos/