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Kids are burning each other with boiling water in a deadly “Hot water challenge” YouTube trend

As seen in YouTube and Twitter videos, the “hot water challenge” involves surprising a friend by burning them with boiling water.

Another variation includes challenging someone to drink boiling hot water through a straw or pouring boiling water on themselves.

8-year-old Ki’ari Pope’s cousin dared her to sip boiling water through a straw back in March. She obliged and suffered burns in her mouth and throat, requiring a tracheotomy. In July, she complained that she couldn’t breathe and later died. (Palm Beach Post, GoFundMe)

In addition to Pope, the trend has left several kids with serious injuries.

Jamoneisha Merritt, 11, was at a sleepover Sunday night when her friends poured boiling water over her face as she slept. She suffered extreme injuries and may be left permanently disfigured.

North Carolina 10-year-old Wesley Smith also suffered severe burns after attempting the challenge with his stepbrother, the boy’s mother told WNCN.com, a CBS affiliate.

Parents have begun speaking out about the challenge. Read more (8/10/17)

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Sony has opened pre-orders for its $840 SmartEyeglasses — complete with a bulky frame that makes Google Glass look positively unobtrusive.

Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes

Research from Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab have put forward a framework to turn 3D model file into a physical knitted object:

We present the first computational approach that can transform 3D meshes, created by traditional modeling programs, directly into instructions for a computer-controlled knitting machine. Knitting machines are able to robustly and repeatably form knitted 3D surfaces from yarn, but have many constraints on what they can fabricate. Given user-defined starting and ending points on an input mesh, our system incrementally builds a helix-free, quad-dominant mesh with uniform edge lengths, runs a tracing procedure over this mesh to generate a knitting path, and schedules the knitting instructions for this path in a way that is compatible with machine constraints. We demonstrate our approach on a wide range of 3D meshes.

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Augmented reality sandbox - move the land around and it shows off the topography and sea/water level.

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Death Mask

Programming project from Or Fleisher and Anastasis Germanidis combines Augmented Reality and Machine Learning, using a Neural Net trained for age prediction through mobile camera device:

‘Death-Mask’ predicts how long people have to live and overlays that in the form of a “clock” above they’re heads in augmented reality.  The project uses a machine learning model titled AgeNet for the prediction process. Once predicted it uses the average life expectancy in that location to try and estimate how long one has left.

The aesthetic inspiration derives from the concept of death masks. These are sculptures meant to symbolize the death of a person by casting his face into a sculpture (i.e mask).

The experiment uses ARKit to render the visual content in augmented reality on an iPad and CoreML to run the machine learning model in real-time. The project is by no means an accurate representation of one’s life expectancy and is more oriented towards the examination of public information in augmented reality in the age of deep learning.

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Kidachi

Japanese programmer has unveiled proof-of-concept effects for Augmented Reality game made with ARKit including visual filters and Predator-like optical camouflage:

ミッション1【野良アンドロイド（光学迷彩搭載機）の発見・確保】 #ARKit pic.twitter.com/7m0esEGrUt

— kidachi (@kidach1) August 19, 2017

[Bing Translation:] Mission 1 [Nora Android (optical camouflage aircraft) find & secure] #ARKit 

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