Archives for February 2007
Lego’s New Millenium Falcon
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:28 am.
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Filed under Fun, Lego.
And today the nerd in me comes out in flying colors…
Lego is soon to release the new Millenium Falcon… the flagship (so to speak) of their Star Wars colelction. At 5195 pieces it is the biggest Lego set ever. It is bulit to minifig scale so that the little Lego people can sit inside. The […]
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Reactable
Published on 11 Feb 2007 at 2:48 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Inventions, Music.
I stumbled across a demo for the Reactable on YouTube. The reactable is a multi-user eletro-acoustic instrument that has a tangible tabetop interface developed by “Interactive Sonic Systems” team is working in the Music Technology Group at the Univeristat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain.
Objects of varying shapes are placed on a translucent table. A videocamera […]
BIG Moonquakes!
Published on 6 Feb 2007 at 12:19 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Geology, Research.
Lauren, a student in my star systems class stopped by today and told me that she had read an article about moonquakes. In the period from 1972 and 1977 the seismometers recorded quite a bit of lunar seismic activity.
There are four kinds of moonquakes:
1. Deep moonquakes (about 700 km below the surface) probably linked […]
Audio-visual Synchrony
Published on 3 Feb 2007 at 1:11 am.
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Filed under Neuroscience, Research.
Today our Physics Department had the pleasure of a visit by Lucas Parra who spoke to us about his recent work in Brain-Computer Interface. During our visit he told me something quite remarkable. I had known that the processing time of the human auditory system was actually different than the processing time of the human […]
