Oct 23
51 Extreme Close-Ups of Eyes
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Eyes. They’re sexy. They’re mysterious. They’re kind of weird. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured eyes in all of their drama, beauty and squishiness. More »
Oct 18
Eyes. They’re the windows to someone’s soul. They also look really cool when shot in an extreme close-up. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, capture eyes. Well, eye. More »
Oct 05
If you’ve been thinking about picking up a new pair of eyeglasses, I think I might just have the thing that’ll get you up off your butt to order a pair. Yep, for the first time that I know of, you can now order Star Wars eyeglasses. Woot!
This awesome new line of Star Wars eyewear comes from Japan’s Aigan, and includes five cool designer frames inspired by some of your favorite characters. You can choose from Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, or Stormtrooper frames, each with subtle (and not-so-subtle) design touches which remind you of the characters without being so ridiculous that you’d never wear them in public.
Each pair also comes with a nifty zipper case, complete with Star Wars graphics on front. Each design comes with a unique style, but this is what the Darth Vader one looks like:
Best of all, the guys over at Gizmine will be importing these from Japan starting at the end of October, and you can pre-order them now. At $499.99(USD) a pair, they’re not exactly cheap, but what designer eyeglasses are these days? I just paid about $700 for a pair with lenses and they were nowhere nearly as cool as the Boba Fetts.
[via Akibalive]
Jul 27
I always dreamed about being able to write or draw with no hands, using just my eyes. This new device invented by Dr. Jean Lorenceau at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris would allow me to do exactly that. Magic? Science! More »
Jul 20
I once bruised my thumbs after a night-long marathon playing Tekken 3 with my college buddies. It was torture to go back to school the next day and hurdle through a pop quiz that served up mostly essay-type questions.
Bruised fingers are probably nothing new to you if you’re a true blue gamer. But if you’re itching to play something – anything! – while your digits are out of commission, then how about a game of Pong which you can play with your eyes? Sounds unreal, but it’s not.
Dr. Aldo Faisal and his team from the Department of Computing at UK’s Imperial College took some glasses, tweaked them and rigged them with circuitry to track eye movements in 3D. And voila: wearers can now play Pong simply by donning the glasses, and looking where they want the paddle to move.
The glasses weren’t made specifically for playing retro arcade games, though, as the researchers came up with them to help people with mobility or motor control issues like MS or Parkinson’s to issue commands with their eyes. And as the video shows, it’s definitely promising.
[via Gizmodo Australia via Dvice]
Jul 18
“The eye and an ink jet nozzle have a common problem: they must not be allowed to dry while, simultaneously, they must open,” explains Jae Wan Kwon, associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri. Kwon, with the help of MU engineering doctoral student Riberet Almieda, solved the problem of the clogging inkjet printer by imitating the human eye’s own solution to dry exposure, a scientific approach known as biomimicry. More »
Jul 11
Our eyes are wonderfully complex biological devices, which most of us take for granted. But do you know that our perception of detail varies massively across our field of view? Or understand why we can walk in the dark but not read? This interactive cartoon does a great job of explaining those complex ideas and more, very, very simply. More »
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