Items of Interest

iPhone Moon

Photographer Tim White spent a year photographing the moon using a telescope and an iPhone 7. Check out the photos on his website.

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Space

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Firefox Reality

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Mozilla have launched Firefox Reality, a web browser for VR. Users can use voice activation to search using the in experience browser window and can also jump into 3D content using the browser.

AR & VR

Tech

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra CoDI Workshop

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This week The Swansea Laptop Orchestra held their first workshop wth the selected composers for the Tŷ Cerdd CoDI electronic pathway project, and I was on hand to take some photos of all the lovely people. Check out the photos of the fun day we had here.

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Ospreys Development Vs Munster A

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This week Munster A came to Swansea to play against the Ospreys Development team in the Celtic Cup. Captained by Bill Johnson (above), the strong Munster A side won easily scoring 52 points to Osprey's 7. Check out my pitchside photos of the match here.

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Cool Thing Of The Week: LEGO Helm's Deep

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Flickr user goelkim2011 created a LEGO replica of the Helm's Deep battle scene from Lord Of The Rings using 150,000 brings and 1700 mini-figures!

Life

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AR Find In Text

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A new app called Find It in the Play Store allows you to search for text while point your phone at a body of text. The app uses Google's OCR library to read text from the camera and search it in real time.

AR & VR

Innovation

Tech

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Wireless Drone Charging

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A company called Global Energy Transmission (GET) have developed and indictive charging solution to allow drones to charge wirelessly, while in flight. The system can transmit up to 12kW of power at approx. 80% efficiency.

Innovation

Tech

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Cloudflare IPFS Gateway

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Cloudflare have realeased thie IPFS Gateway product as part of Crypto-week. The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer to peer web hosting and deliver system aimed at reducing the dependncy on the current server based architecture of the web. Pages on IPFS are accessed using a hash of their content as an address, and those pages are stored on a peer-to-peer system around the IPFS network.

Motivation

Tech

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Silent Words Device

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Researchers at MIT have developed an intelligence augmentation device that is capable of detecting and transmitting verbalised words that are not spoken. The device measures neuro-muscular signals in the jaw and face that are triggered when words are internally verbalised inside the users head but not spoke out loud.

Innovation

Tech

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The Copenhagen Catalog

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The Copenhagen Catalogue is a collection of 150 principles that define a new direction for the tech industry. The principles were crowd-sourced by 150 people during the Techfestival in Copenhagen and address topics such as human rights, environment responsibility and open data. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this).

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Tech

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