Researchers at the Keio University in Japan have developed a new 3D display that displays floating 3D characters that can be interacted with and touched in mid air.

The RePro3D display is made up of a glasses 3D display, a mechanically controlled model environment and a tactile interface, have a look at the video of it in action below.

"We use retro-reflective projection technology, using materials with special retro-reflective characteristics. This kind of material reflects light that enters back at the same angle it entered. Using this technology enables a display to show images at a different place from the light source.”

Apparently there’s this condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (or EHS) that’s ruining a lot of lives. How? It makes its victims so paranoid around cellular devices and WiFi networks—believing proximity to such tech irradiates them—that they decide to opt out of society. Thus, WiFi refugees have come into existence. The almost too-unbelievable  part is groups of them have been flocking to a far away town for their protection.

The place is Green Bank, West Virginia where oddly enough humongous radio telescopes ar ein operation. It has become a haven for EHS sufferers and other WiFi refugees because it’s a certified radio free zone. It’s also rustic, isolated, and quite lovely.

The BBC have a great piece on some of the inhabitants who claim they have suffered from EHS and cellular devices. The victims claim headaches and mental t ... Read more »

For starters, it’s a strange place for kids to be enjoying their solitude. But as a work of sculpture what Dietrech Wegner has created is a marvel to behold. A study in balancing lightweight materials with aesthetic sensibilities, the mushroom cloud tree house is an eccentric take on a boyhood institution, not to mention a towering display of nuclear might.

Further investigation has revealed that the artist’s message was to pose a contradiction. We’re not going to delve into the philosophical underpinnings here or whatever. Bottom line is it’s a nice sculpture though we’d love to see a lengthier ladder up to its entrance. The sculptor, of whom little is known, has inadvertently stoked our enthusiasm for post-nuclear imaginings along the lines of Fallout ... Read more »

NASA has this week unveiled plans to build the worlds largest rocket costing an estimated costing $18 billion and a successor to the Space Shuttle. The new rocket will be a 320-foot-tall Space Launch System (SLS) and will be the most powerful NASA has built since the Saturn V rockets.

Its hoped that the new rocket will take NASA missions behind the moon and maybe even to Mars. Watch a video NASA has created to unveil its new rocket project to the world after the jump.

NASA Space agency chief Charles Bolden explains:

"The The Space Launch System (SLS) will take American astronauts further into space than ever before. Tomorrow’s explorers will dream of one day walking on Mars,”

The new rocket is currently under development and will hopefully make a unmanned test flight in 2017.

YouTube has today launched a new video editor to provide you with a quick and easy way to edit existing and already published videos without the need to re-upload them. The new editor has been added in addition to the the existing editor that is currently within the TestTube labs area.

The new YouTube video editor includes 14 new effects which you can use to enhance your video. Together with other basic editing functions such as trim, rotate, brightness/contrast, colour temperature, and saturation. Watch the video after the jump for a walk through.

To edit your videos simply uploaded them as usual and press the "Edit Video” button to begin editing.

YouTube explains:

"We noticed a lot of the videos that were uploaded to YouTube could use some polish, some basic video editing,” – "We not ... Read more »

For starters, it’s not found on Earth but in a far away system orbiting a star. See, the Super-Earth is a category of rocky planet within a ‘habitable zone’ where proximity determines whether water deposits may or may not exist. A super-earth is also much larger than our Earth (hence ‘super’), having heftier mass as a result. Not surprising, since water is oh so essential to supporting life. The picture down south? Not a Super-Earth. In case you didn’t recognize it that’s Reach from the Halo universe before the Covenant laid waste to it. A stand in if you will.

Even if space programs around the world are currently cash-strapped and long term mission-less, that doesn’t mean the scientific community are resting on their laurels. The ESO in particular have been obsessing over distant worlds via their awesome HARPS spectograph atop the frigid mountains of Chile. ESO? HARPS? ... Read more »

It was time for AMD to crack open the liquid -nitrogen and liquid-helium again as it set a new world record by clocking its new FX processor to a staggering 8.429Ghz.

The AMD Overclocking Team used a pre-release FX processor and a tank of liquid-helium to push the

processor well over 8GHz (even with the anti-virus enabled at one point), setting a new world record for

a modern processor frequency in the process to 8.429GHz, breaking the previous record of 8.309GHz.

Watch the video after the jump to see the AMD Overclocking Team in action.

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Ooyala has this week rolled out their new Ooyala Social feature to its videos enabling publishers to easily sell or rent their premium video on Facebook

The new HD-quality Social TV experience called Ooyala Social, now brings video sharing and and viewing to the worlds largest social networking site, Facebook. It allows Facebook users can pay with Facebook credits, PayPal, a credit card or even their mobile phone number, enabling them to rent subscribed  or purchased outright video content directly from Facebook.

Ooyala specialises in hosting videos for large corporate and media clients, such as the Telegraph Media Group, Martha Stewart Living, Omnimedia, Dell, General Mills, ESPN and TechCrunch. The new service now makes it easy to provide Facebook users with additional premium video a that can easily be purchased or rented.

When the World Trade Center was hit in the 9/11 attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culpertson was able to snap a few pictures from space.

These images were released some years back, but detail just how visible the attacks were, even from space. They were taken by NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, who was onboard the International Space Station when the World Trade Center was hit. He was the only American in space on 9/11 and his experiences are detailed in a NASA blog post.

"I saw it out the window and we took video as the second tower was collapsing,” said Culpertson (via TG Daily). "Didn’t know what was happening but I knew it was really bad because there was a big cloud of debris covering Manhattan. That’s when it really became painful because it was like seeing a wound in the side of your country.” 

For a high resolution view of the ima ... Read more »

First weld marks the start of construction on NASA's next manned spacecraft.

NASA has begun construction on the next manned ship to go into space, beginning with the first weld on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Module that will carry astronauts aboard the spacecraft.

Work began on the spacecraft in New Orleans on Friday, September 9, and will continue with the addition of heat shields at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

The spacecraft is the first manned ship to be constructed since the Space Shuttle Endeavor left the factory in 1991. If all goes as planned, it will also be the first manned spacecraft created by NASA to go into orbit since the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which landed earlier this year and marked the final flight of the Space Shuttle program.