A very sophisticated autonomous taxi Zoox The company is located near to transform the entire transport industry, creating the most sophisticated car-robot artificial intelligence.
CIT loses one,EUR 6 million on the road On Wednesday, December 24th, 2014 Christmas came early for residents of Hong Kong, as an armored CIT vehicle lost $ 15 million in Hong Kong on the way (1.600.000 €). The driver had forgotten to close the doors of the truck and the notes fall on the road during the journey. Passers-by and drivers flocked to harvest that could. The Police warned however, that everyone should refund the money...
Disney technology before green screen The sodium vapor process is a filmmaking technique for combining actors and background shots. It originated in the British film industry in the late 1950s and was used extensively by Walt Disney Productions in the 1960s and 1970s as a solution before the green screen technology we know today. The filming used sodium vapor lamps in front of which the shots were shot. A beam-splitter camera is used to expose the two separate elements of the film. The main element is normal color negative film which is insensitive to sodium light and the other a black and white film which is highly sensitive to the specific wavelength produced by sodium vapor. In this way the actors' figures could be combined with a different background and captured with great color accuracy in a final film. Production studio Corridor Digital has released a video showing a modern application of the sodium vapor process, using a custom filter developed by Paul Debevec.
A lucky kitten in the street A kitten I almost crushed by a car as he tried to cross a road in Novosibirsk, Russia. Watching the kitten on the street, one motorist got out of his car and began shouting when the animal was behind the wheel of a car. Afterwards grabbed to the rescue.
The Tesla Valve The Tesla Valve was invented in 1920 by Nikola Tesla. It is also known as Tesla's valvular conduit. It is a one way valve with no moving parts.