A guy living under SFO's flight path built a ceiling projector that tracks every aircraft flying over his house in real time. A $30 radio, a projector, his software, it projects the airline, aircraft type, and destination exactly as they pass overhead.
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For the first time ever, plasma inside the ST40 fusion reactor has been filmed in full color.
Captured at 16,000 fps, this breakthrough lets scientists study plasma flow in stunning detail — a bright step toward clean fusion energy.
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Nikola Tesla invented this valve over a century ago, and NASA still uses the same idea today.
A brilliant piece of engineering without moving parts that allows fluid to flow easily in one direction but creates massive resistance to reverse flow.
THIS GUY BUILT REAL FLYING SWORD DRONES AND CONTROLS THEM WITH HAND GESTURES
fan shisan is a physics student in chengdu who coded and built flying drones shaped like actual swords
he controls them entirely with hand gestures. no controller or a phone. just his hands
wave your hand and the sword follows. point and it flies where you direct it. multiple swords in the air at the same time responding to different gestures
he built the gesture recognition system HIMSELF and coded the flight control algorithms. designed the drone hardware in the shape of swords.
the gesture tracking uses sensors that read the position and movement of his hands in real time and translate them into flight commands for each drone independently
he even built one large enough to ride on
a physics student with coding skills just brought something straight out of a kung fu movie into the real world
the line between science fiction and side projects is getting thinner every month
Fewer than 100 people worldwide are known to have this extraordinary condition.
A rare instance of hyperthymesia—also called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM)—offers a striking glimpse into how the human brain can construct a vivid, structured, and navigable mental landscape of a lifetime's experiences.
Picture entering a mental "white room" where every personal moment is meticulously archived: memories filed in binders by theme, chronology, and emotional tone, or visualized as photographs and text messages on shelves. For a 17-year-old French high-school student referred to as TL, this is her everyday experience—not a metaphor, but a controlled cognitive reality.
TL, one of the fewer than 100 documented cases of hyperthymesia, can voluntarily "re-experience" past events with full sensory detail, often from multiple perspectives, and even choose to compartmentalize difficult memories (such as sealing painful ones away in a mental chest) while shifting focus to calmer "rooms" to regulate emotions like anger.
What sets TL apart is her ability to also "pre-experience" future scenarios with comparable vividness and emotional richness—a capacity known as episodic future thinking. This allows her to mentally simulate upcoming personal events as if they are already unfolding.
Researchers describe her memory system as a sophisticated, self-organized architecture that she accesses at will, providing exceptional voluntary control over autobiographical recall—unlike many others with hyperthymesia who find their memories intrusive or overwhelming.
By studying TL's unique case, scientists gain valuable insight into the neural mechanisms of mental time travel: the ability to flexibly revisit the past and project into the future. This reveals memory not merely as passive storage, but as a dynamic, spatially and emotionally structured framework that shapes personal identity and our sense of continuity across time.
The findings, detailed in a 2025 case study, highlight how such exceptional cognitive organization may deepen our understanding of human consciousness and autobiographical memory.
[La Corte, V., Piolino, P., & Cohen, L. (2025). Autobiographical hypermnesia as a particular form of mental time travel. Neurocase. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2025.2537950]
Gaussian Splats are interesting technology, I saw one open-source scene last night and put it into one of my game. Want to share it here, this is how future web games might look like. 📷 Especially since now with AI synthetic data can be created.
this is pretty cool
some MIT students turned a building into a giant playable game of Tetris on Saturday at midnight
rigged each window with LEDs
MIT students are on a diff level
El CERN acaba de transportar antimateria en un camión. Apenas 92 antiprotones.
Un grano de sal tiene1.200.000.000.000.000.000 átomos.
Si algo hubiera salido mal, no habría explotado, simplemente se habría desaparecido en un parpadeo de luz
Así hicimos nuestro último cortometraje con IA. Como veis, no es apretar un botón como muchos dicen.
Aqui hay mucho trabajo humano con un gran equipo detras.
Ya podéis ver el cortometraje entero de Los Resucitado en mi canal.
Espero que os haya gustado mucho.
#CINE#cineia#ia #inteligenciaartificial
The great Douglas Trumbull, one of the main pioneers of visual effects, was born on this day in 1942. From his mastery, vision, and creativity as a visual effects supervisor emerged the science-fiction landscapes of films like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, ‘Blade Runner’ or ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’.