Six-wheeled delivery robots which trundle along at 4mph will soon be used to deliver meals to homes around London. The self-driving robots can navigate through city streets using a GPS tracker coupled with on-board cameras and sensors. When the robot arrives at its destination, the customer has to type in a code that has been […]
Category Archives: Techs Corner
Assorted tech related blog
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Jun
Jun
CCP’s stunning Project Arena looks like an exciting battle scene from a Tron movie, and playing it feels more visceral than any VR game to date. Could this become the world’s first VR eSport?
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Jul
Jul
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term […]
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Jul
Jul
This film was made for Sony Professional Broadcasting over 8 months, documenting the building of the first ever fleet of 4K outside broadcast vehicle’s for Russian company Panorama to be used in the next Winter Olympics. ( video credits to reelnice.co.uk )
07
Jul
Jul
Martin Professional has introduced the MAC Quantum Wash and MAC Quantum Profile, the latest solution to provide brighter and more compact LED lights. The MAC Quantum Wash features tight beams, “beautiful wash fields, a market-leading colour palette and uniform mixing that combines to accommodate the most demanding applications with brightness and perfection”. Combining an impressive […]
Techs Corner
Christie reveals first commercial pure-laser projection system, projects 75-foot-wide Godzilla
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Jun
Jun
Christie Digital Systems USA has revealed “the world’s first commercial pure-laser projection system”; Christie showed off the system earlier this month at the Shanghai Film Art Center, the first cineplex built in China. The featured movie on the cineplex’s 23-meter-wide screens was “Godzilla.” Christie laser projectors will provide a brightness of up to 72,000 lumens […]
Techs Corner
Plays music through an arc of electrical plasma, making it one of the coolest speakers you can get. Prepared to be amazed!
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May
May
A plasma speaker plays music just like your normal speaker but it uses an arc of electrical plasma running at 30,000 volts! Most people aren’t aware that plasma arcs can be modulated to generate sounds so your friends will be in for a surprise when you explain to them that the plasma arc IS the […]
