overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Weeks go by..

Whenever I get the development bug, I tend to go into social remission. I can’t believe that an entire week disappeared without a post, but judging by the amount of ground that has been gained behind the scenes with Blogdex, it’s not that surprising. I think people will be happy.

That’s one way to solve the problem…

In an attempt to put movie piraters to bay, the digital cinema company Cinea has just won a $2 million NIST grant to develop technologies that disrupt the taping process within movie theaters: The company “will modify the timing and modulation of the light used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by [...]

Ad hoc structures in space

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology are working on methods for assembing arbitrary structures in space using only debris and electromagnetic waves: Komerath and his students have calculated that it would be feasible to use waves to move objects with diameters smaller than five per cent of the radiation’s wavelength. Light can move nanoparticles [...]