NASA Favorites ~ Top Ten Stellar Imagery!

NASA shares their top Ten Awe-Inspiring Photos!

The Long Walk ~ Edwin Land's Polaroid at Peak!

In WGBH News Edgar Herwick spotlights How Edwin Land Built Polaroid Into The Ultimate Mass. Consumer Technology Powerhouse, and he notes...

"There’s this fascinating, kind of haunting video from 1970 that you can watch on YouTube, in which Edwin Land -- chemist, inventor, inspiration to Steve Jobs, and co-founder of Polaroid Corp. -- walks through a half-built factory in Norwood where he planned to change the world."

Epic Selfie ~ NASA's Earth & Far Side of Moon!

NASA's EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite spots our Earth and the Far Side of the Moon!-)

African Infra ~ The Underdeveloped Continent...

Globaia shares via the Telegraph composite images of Earth showing impact and role of humans, here illustrating how Africa is the most underdeveloped -- and thus most promising -- Continent...

Pluto ~ NASA Shares New Horizons Imagery!

There's Pluto sez NASA APOD!

Fairy Lights ~ Plasma Voxels Projection Display!

Check out Fairy Lights, a technique for projecting plasma voxels!

"We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3D position. Popular applications can then be explored especially since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a nanosecond laser. There are two methods of rendering graphics with a femtosecond laser in air: Producing holograms using spatial light modulation technology, and scanning of a laser beam by a galvano mirror. The holograms and workspace of the system proposed here occupy a volume of up to 1 cm^3; however, this size is scalable depending on the optical devices and their setup. [...] Although we focus on laser-induced plasma in air, the discussion presented here is also applicable to other rendering principles such as fluorescence and microbubble in solid/liquid materials."

Unknown Soldier ~ Portraying Resilience & Pride

NPR's Elizabeth Blair spotlights photographer David Jay's Unknown Soldier series of images of severely injured warriors...

"Jay believes these wounds belong to all of us: "You can imagine how many times each of these men and women have heard a parent tell their child, 'Don't look. Don't stare at him. That's rude.' I take these pictures so that we can look; we can see what we're not supposed to see. And we need to see them because we created them." Jay believes seeing is one step closer to understanding."

Starburst ~ NASA APOD Spots Galaxy M94!

Lovely image by Leonardo Orazi of Galaxy M94 on NASA APOD! Click through to see the full image!

LVL 1 ~ CyPhy's Easy Drone for Rest of Us;-)

CyPhy's LVL 1 is Kickstarting now!

"It brings a new perspective that makes drone flying accessible to everyone. Thanks to technological advances like our Level-Up Technology, Swipe-to-Fly capabilities, Real-Time sharing to social media, Geo-Fencing and more, you no longer need to learn how to fly."

Big Cat Scanner ~ Leibniz's Zoological Imaging!

MissC spots the Big Cat Scan -- a Toshiba Aquilon CX CT-scanner -- at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research... Let's hope the anaesthesia doesn't wear off prematurely;-)

City Lights ~ Colin Rich's LA Timelapse...

Colin Rich's Trilogy of Light final chapter -- City Lights!

PIVOT the World ~ Historic Site Visualizations!

Very cool to see our alumco PIVOT now Kickstarting!

"PIVOT is an app that lets you see what a place looked like in the past and digitally streamlines the preservation of culture & history!"

Racing Can ~ Cinetics User Stop-Mo Promo!

Lovely stop-mo promo for Red Bull challenge enabled by MIT alumco Cinetics!

Guitar Strings ~ Camera Sampling Play Vibes!

Sun Gazing spots guitar string play imagery...

Curious M106 ~ Strangely Centered Spiral Galaxy!

NASA APOD spots M106 Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center...

Pixel ~ Projection Mapping on Live Dancers!

WebUrbanist spots Pixel projection mapping on live dancers...

Expansion Microscopy ~ Physical Magnification!

MIT Professor Ed Boyden and colleagues Fei Chen and Paul Tillberg publish their work on Expansion Microscopy in Science!

"By synthesizing a swellable polymer network within a specimen, it can be physically expanded, resulting in physical magnification. By covalently anchoring specific labels located within the specimen directly to the polymer network, labels spaced closer than the optical diffraction limit can be isotropically separated and optically resolved, a process we call expansion microscopy"

Brief video explanation & demo by the co-authors... And here's flythrough of mouse hippocampus...

Sprout ~ HP's 3D Interactive proto-Smartbulb...

Check out HP's new Sprout, their 3D interactive PC/workstation that's a first-stab (albeit third-rate) at a commercial smartbulb... USAToday's Edward Baig reviews Sprout... This reminds me of the Calliope Never-ending Drawing Machine at MIT Media Lab... And also the MIT Media Lab LuminAR project... Of course, all of these are pre-dated by John Underkoffler's 1999 PhD on The I/O bulb and the luminous room!

Soap Bubble Nebula ~ NASA Spots Cygnus!

NASA APOD spots Soap Bubble Nebula in Cygnus constellation!

Face Hacking ~ Projection-Mapped Skin Animes!

Mike Rougeau at Kotaku spots Japanese Face Hacking -- i.e. face-tracking and then projection-mapping with 3D animes!