Font nerds, rejoice! There’s now a magical gadget that can scan fonts and colors, figure out exactly what they are, and even transfer them for use in Adobe’s InDesign desktop publishing software.
The Spector, as the gadget is called, is like a “physical eyedropper” says designer Fiona O’Leary who created the device for her graduation project.
The device contains a camera inside that takes a picture of a font when its capture button is pressed. The Spector can also capture real-life colors and determine their CMYK or RGB values.Read more…
Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets of Shark Island is a wonderful documentary about the ecosystem in the waters around the Revillagigedo Islands, a group of four volcanic islands 240 miles off of Mexico. Because it’s “the only natural juncture for miles” in the Pacific Ocean, there’s a lot going on around there. Most scarily, a shit ton of migrating sharks. My God, just look at all them.
Last year, Chris Borland of the San Francisco 49ers announced he was quitting football because of the high risk of concussion and long-term brain damage, despite protective helmets. And he’s not alone: it’s a growing concern, particularly for teenaged athletes. But a new collar inspired by the humble woodpecker may help protect athletes from such trauma in the future .
With the release of Oculus Rift came a whole new genre of gaming. Joining in the ranks of gaming technology that preceded Virtual and Augmented Reality, the technology powering VR and AR is truly helping define the future of gaming itself. But the truth is that VR and AR are influencing much more than gaming alone.
A new low-power, “brain-inspired” supercomputing platform based on IBM chip technology will soon start exploring deep learning for the U.S. nuclear program.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced on Tuesday that it has purchased the platform, based on the TrueNorth neurosynaptic chip IBM introduced in 2014. It will use the technology to evaluate machine-learning and deep-learning applications for the National Nuclear Security Administration.