WebBuzz du 15/07/2016: démonstration des capacités des traitements vidéos-What CGI can do now
Avec la puissance surdéveloppée des processeurs, les effets vidéos ne connaissent presque plus de limites. Voici un exemple avec ce petit clip des capacités de transformations et d'animations. incroyables.
With overdeveloped processing power, video effects hardly know no bounds. Here's an example with this small clip transformation capabilities and animations. incredible.
Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
WebBuzz du 13/05/2015: Lily le nouveau drône qui vous suit-Lily the new drone that follow you
Piloter un drône demande énormément d'heures d'entrainement. Mais grace à la technologie, c'est maintenant à la portée de tous. Vous avez besoin de prendre de la hauteur ? Lily est pour vous. Il est simple à commander et vous suit partout.
Fly a drone requires a lot of hours of training. But thanks to technology, it is now within the reach of all. You need to get high? Lily is for you. It is simple to control and follows you everywhere.
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
WebBuzz du 20/10/2016: Projection lumineuse dynamique sur des surfaces non rigides-Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non rigid surface
Voici une technologie qui permet de projeter une image lumiseuse sur des surfaces non rigides comme du tissus, du papier et d'en suivre les deformations. Pour cela, il faut imprimer sur la suface, une encre reagissant a la lumiere infra rouge et de filmer la surface et l'ordinateur calcule la deformation qu'il faut appliquer a l'image pour suivre la surface ...
Here is a technology that allows to project an image on lumiseuse non-rigid surfaces such as fabric, paper and track deformation. For this to be printed on the suface, an ink reacts to infrared light and the surface film and the computer calculates the deformation to be applied to the image to follow the surface ...
WebBuzz du 29/01/2016: Time-lapse créé à partir de photos d'internet-Time-lapse created from Internet photos
Avec le nombre de photos disponibles de plus en plus croissant sur internet, des chercheurs de l'université de Washington ont eu la bonne idée de réaliser des time-lapses d'endroits souvent photographié. Voici quelques exemples ...
With the number of photos of increasingly growing on the internet, the Washington University researchers have had the good sense to realize time-lapses of often photographed places. Here are some examples ...
Apple Announces iCloud, Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote
Apple has confirmed maybe the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley: it’s been working on a cloud service, and will announce it at the June 6 Worldwide Developers Conference.
So now we know annual developer’s conference will unveil “iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” but we don’t know yet what it is, or what exactly will reside at the domain name it may have bought for $4.5 million in April.











