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MIT Develops Camouflage Generator That Can Hide Almost Anything
When you hear the word camouflage, images of fake foliage, random brown blobs, or maybe even the US military’s failed pixelated fatigues come to mind. But researchers at MIT have developed a new algorithm that generates camouflage patterns that let an object blend into any surrounding, not just a jungle or the desert.
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A Ball-Tracking Projector Lets You Juggle With Stars And Planets
There hasn’t been much innovation in the world of juggling since the chainsaw was invented. But thanks to the work of Hiroaki Yamaguchi and Hideki Koike, who created a real-time tracking and projection system that can bring balls to life, busking is about to get interesting again.
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A High-Speed Robot Arm That Snatches Objects Out Of Mid-Air
Major League Baseball probably hasn’t even considered the idea of allowing teams to add artificial players to their rosters. But games would certainly be a lot more exciting if this EPFL arm — that can react in less than five hundredths of a second to catch an object — were to take the field.
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This Gold Nanoparticle Paint Changes Colour Based On Touch
A team of chemists at the University of California, Riverside, recently had a happy accident. While experimenting with stringing gold nanoparticles together, they noticed that the gold kept changing colours from a bright blue to purple to red. Indeed, the more they touched it, the more the colour changed.