Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore’s Law has been going strong. It’s approaching half a century despite frequent observations that it can’t continue forever (Gordon Moore himself only gave it a decade).
Jonathan Minard and James George from RGB D are using the Kinect and a DSLR to reimagine filmmaking. They have created a technique that lets you map video from the camera onto 3D data from the gaming console device, generate a CGI and video hybrid. This could make it easier and cheaper to create 3D films using commercially available hardware and open source software.
New ‘Robot and Frank’ Movie Looks Like A Realistic Portrayal Of The Not-Too-Distant-Future
Get excited Singularitarians, a new robot movie’s coming out. But don’t expect them to transform into gigantic battle bots and destroy whole city blocks, and don’t expect them to turn on their human keepers and take over the world. Don’t even expect them to do instantaneous mind-numbing calculations so that starship captains can know how much power is left in the warp core. The robots in this movie are mostly found absorbed in pedestrian acts such as preparing lunch, doing the dishes, or gardening. A break from typical robot movies to say the least, Frank and Robot takes a serious guess at what the first robots will be like when they begin crossing the thresholds of our homes.
