Google couldn’t stop them from hiring porn stars to don the wearable technology and, well, do what porn stars do, and that’s exactly what happened. What would a porn shot with Glass look like? The trailer is a good indication without showing any actual porn, though the language is still pretty filthy and there’s a lot of moaning, so remember — NSFW.
Weirdly, this video does a decent job of showing off what Glass is capable of, but it also has fictional elements… to help move the story along I guess?
Porn stars James Deen and Andy San Dimas (oddest Bill & Tedreference ever?) use Glass’s long-since-cancelled facial recognition capabilities to identify each other. Deen also uses Glass to give him X-ray vision, but as far as we know that was never intended to be a feature. I might be missing the point here, but I kind of would have preferred it if they stuck to what Glass actually does.
Wilson is namechecking Democratic House Majority LeaderNancy Pelosi’s call for a “new conversation” on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Wilson follows up his question by firing off a few rounds of ammunition, giving his handiwork an admiring look, and declaring: “Welcome to the age of the printed magazine.” The screen flashes a message: “Download your mag today.”
The 51-second video closes with Wilson eating a meal. An off-camera voice asks him: “So how does it taste?” His answer: “Tastes like Dianne Feinstein’s lunch.” It’s another anti-gun control broadside, a slam against the Democratic senator who plans to introduce legislation that would reinstate the ban on selling high-capacity ammunition magazines that existed from 1994 to 2004.
Wilson’s message could not be more blatant. In the age of cheap 3-D printers and open-source, easily downloadable design code, he is declaring that gun control is obsolete. So don’t even bother trying.”
“But technologically, it’s still simple. That’s because the principle behind a gun isn’t too tricky: load a bullet into a reinforced tube, and whack the back of it hard. That’s an engineering problem street gangs in the 1950s managed to solve with wood, antenna housings and elastic bands, building “zip guns” to shoot at each other; and it’s also the basis for converted air rifles and cap guns. The difficult stuff – getting it to fire accurately, repeatedly and without jamming or blowing up in your face – is still a long way off for 3D printers. And even the best 3D-printed gun still relies on someone else to make the gunpowder.”
I recently posted an Article on ‘We Have more colors Than we See’.
I mentioned there that there are infinite colors and we see only seven because of our limitations.
I found an interesting article on the same subject to-day.
A new Digital Camera developed mimics Arthropods, has 180 Degree vision.
It provides the entire field of view. By contrast, our eyes can only see a narrow angle ahead of us, and the images they form are only sharp at the very center of our visual field.
Digital Camera, based on Insect’s Eyes.
“Arthropods—insects,spiders and their kin—have compound eyes, which consist of hundreds or thousands of individual units or ommatidia. Each one has its own lens and light detectors. They form separate images, which are then united in the brain. And since arthropods greatly outnumber all other animals, the vast majority of eyes are compound ones.
Now, John Rogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a camera that mimics compound eyes. It might not have the same resolution as a state-of-the-art digital camera, but it compensates with many advantages that make it ideal for surveillance. Perhaps in the future, we’ll be watched by man-made flies on the walls.
Rogers chose to mimic apposition eyes—a type of compound eye where each ommatidium sees a narrow part of the insect’s visual field, effectively capturing just one pixel of a full image…
Compound eyes also have an almost infinite depth of field—that is, objects stay in focus regardless of how far they are from the eye. So, flies can clearly see something far and near objects at the same time, without having to adjust any lenses. And compound eyes are also exquisitely sensitive to movement, since their owners can compare the passage of shapes across different ommatidia.
Wide angles. Sharp focus at all distances. Sensitivity to movement. If you were building a surveillance camera, these are exactly the properties you’d want. Indeed, Rogers thinks that surveillance is an obvious application for his fly-eye design.”
Living has become complex and so isolated (though the world has shrunk on the Internet) and sex between strangers have become a common and easy that one might even bump into his close relatives..
Iceland faced this problem and recognized this as a Problem.
A Mobile Application has been developed to avoid bedding close relatives,unwittingly.
( you can do nothing about those who do so wittingly!)
The Story and Video Demo.
Avoiding incest in Iceland just got easier. A new app determines if hookups on the close-knit island nation are sharing too many roots in the family tree, News Of Iceland reports.
The app in action. The database it accesses has been active since the 1990s. Credit: SadEngineerStudios
The app’s slogan, “bump the app before you bump in bed,” invites would-be couples to bump their smartphones together for a verdict to prevent problems later…
The database, which draws from 1,200 years of genealogical info, has been around since 1997, according to the New York Daily News. Before the app was developed, couples in Iceland had to search the database by typing in their names and Icelandic ID numbers. In the heat of the moment, that might be difficult.
Now, all it takes is a phone kiss.
As previously reported, the possibility of romancing a too-close relative is relatively high in Iceland, given that the island has around 300,000 mostly native residents.
According to GlobalPost, a little verbal investigation also helps to avoid inbreeding. “Hverra manna ert þú?” (“Who are your people?”) is a common question exchanged..
When you tap phones with someone who has the app, it brings up an alert if the owners of the two phones share a grandparent. (Of course, if you don’t already know who you share a grandparent with, incest may be the least of your problems, but the team says it is looking into functionality for spotting common great grandparents, too.)
The app, called Sifjaspellsspillir translates to “Incest Destroyer.”
The glasses are equipped with a near-infrared light source, which confuses the software without affecting vision.
Law enforcers, shops and social networks are increasingly using facial-recognition software.
Prof Isao Echizen said: “As a result of developments in facial recognition technology in Google images, Facebook et cetera and the popularisation of portable terminals that append photos with photographic information [geotags]… essential measures for preventing the invasion of privacy caused by photographs taken in secret and unintentional capture in camera images is now required.”
The near-infrared light “appends noise to photographed images without affecting human visibility,” he said.
Shop mannequins
Prof Echizen said the glasses, which connect to a pocket power supply, would be reasonably priced, but there are some simpler alternatives.
Heavy make-up or a mask will also work, as will tilting your head at a 15-degree angle, which fools the software into thinking you do not have a face, according to an online guide produced by hacktivist group Anonymous.
In September, following a review by Ireland’s data protection commissioner, Facebook suspended its facial-recognition tool that suggested when users in Europe could be tagged in photographs.
In November, it emerged some shop mannequins were collecting data on shoppers using facial-recognition software.
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