Japan Just Sent The Int-Ball, A Photo And Video Drone, To The International Space Station. Its Mission

Piano player wears an eye tracker so you can see exactly where their eyes move to as they play. Amazing video.

Virtual Genetic Code

Google Translate writes weird poetry if you repeat random characters.

(Above, my own experiments. Inspired by https://twitter.com/smutclyde )

Timelapse of Star Trails over Sparks Lake, Oregon

When ur in public and have to pretend not to be anxious 

Furlexa

Project from Zach Levine modifies a Furby toy into an Amazon-powered home assistant with Alexa voice recognition:

I’m Sorry …

I thought I’d make Furby a little less annoying and give him an upgrade with a real brain. Step aside, Tin Man.

By combining a Raspberry Pi Zero W (a tiny computer), Amazon’s (mostly) open-source Alexa Voice Service software, and a few other electrical components, I converted my normal Furby into an Amazon Echo.

I give you: Furlexa.

It is my hope that you can either use this guide as a fun read or to build your own Furby Echo – I tried to write it in a style that any crowd would enjoy and I hope that I accomplished that goal.

More details on how to build your own can be found here

Augmented reality game with unique semi-transmissive rendering method

Update to project from kidach1 of a game which features enemies with optical camouflage which you can uncover with filters (and it is also possible to play multiplayer):

You can keep track of progress at Twitter or Patreon

If you could talk to your childhood inspiration, what would you say?

Listen to Brian Lehrer’s full interview with LeVar Burton here. 

Fractal Friday ॐ Not my photo ॐ

Machine Learning and Big Data Know it Wasn’t You Who Just Swiped Your Credit Card

by Jungwoo Ryoo, The Conversation

You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasn’t you who bought expensive electronics using your credit card – in fact, it’s been in your pocket all afternoon. So how did the bank know to flag this single purchase as most likely fraudulent?

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