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Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

Dude, I want all that time back from ’shopping all that stuff…
via YouTube - Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek.

Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn!

Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.
Awesome study on ‘luck.’  I think it makes perfect sense.  Certain people notice opportunities and therefore are better-equipped, (let alone [...]

YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video

The gaming implications are pretty rad, it would take some adjusting to but I think for the most part I wouldn’t mind if all keyboards went this way!
YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video.

Same blue dye in M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that when they injected the compound Brilliant Blue G (BBG) into rats suffering spinal cord injuries, the rodents were able to walk again, albeit with a limp.
The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.
While I’m sure this blue dye is used in [...]

Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer

I’m not sure how much of this is from The Ghost Breakers, which was a film that came out in 1940 that was about a group of guys fighting ghosts, haha. It’s a little more Scooby-Do then Ghostbusters but it’s cool.
Mr. Dude here edited together a trailer of what Ghostbusters would be like if [...]