Salient Eye: Your Android Home Security Alarm System

Turn your (old) Smartphone in a Security System. Salient-Eye turns an Android device into a home security system.  The Salient-Eye application uses the phone’s camera to sense motion, and it sounds an alarm when a break-in occurs. Your phone will capture a stream of photos and instantly send them to you via e-mail and SMS. 

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The DALER robot can fly and walk

Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot can walk and fly. Inspired by a vampire bat, this wing-morphing, shock-proof DALER robot can walk and fly. Inside the wings there is a foldable skeleton mechanism. Covered with a soft fabric, it can change it’s shape so that they can be used both as wings and as legs. For now

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Drone films Pripyat, Ukraine

An aerial view from a ghost town. Aerocine shot this aerial movie in Pripyat. This abandoned city is located in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. It was a city with a population of 49,360 inhabitants, before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster. 0000

3D printed Fibonacci Sculptures

The Golden Angle. You may have heard of the Fibonacci numbers; 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 and it’s connection with the Golden Ratio. The Golden Angle, approximately 137.5° comes from the golden angle’s connection to the Golden Ratio φ.  “These 3-D printed sculptures are designed to animate when spun under a

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Drone films New York

Drone films Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. This amazing aerial movie starts with a quote from F Scott Fitzgerald: The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. Shot with a

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Drone detects and avoids obstacles with Intel Camera

Ascending Technologies and Intel develop collision avoidance technology for drones Ascending Technologies and Intel are developing collision avoidance technology and algorithms for unmanned aerial systems (UAVs), also known as drones. With the use of using Intel RealSense cameras and Ascending Technologies’ AscTec Trinity auto pilot system these drones are capable of detecting and avoiding objects.

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Pico: Timelapse function for your DSLR

Pico controls your DSLR camera to create Timelapse videos. Shaped like a red blood cell Pico is a small device that can put extra life in your DSLR. You can connect Pico to your (DLSR) camera and make timelapse videos.  With the free smartphone app you can create a program and send it to Pico.

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