WebBuzz du 04/04/2016: Blue origin réutilisation des lanceurs-Blue origin pushing the enveloppe
Blue origin, société de Seattle, créée en 2000 par l'un des fondateurs d'amazon, avance dans sa conquête de l'espace. Ils ont été capable de lancer plusieurs fois une capsule à plus de 100 Km d'altitude et de réutiliser plusieurs fois le même lanceur.
Blue Origin, a company in Seattle, founded in 2000 by one of the founders of amazon, advance in the conquest of space. They were able to run several times a capsule over 100 km altitude and reused several times the same pitcher.
Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.
WebBuzz du 05/10/2016: Le mythe des vagues scélérates enfin dévoilé-Creating controlled rogue waves in realistic oceanic condition
Des nombreux capitaines au long cours en parlaient sans vraiment être écoutés. Voici enfin, l'explication des vagues scélérates et elles sont mêmes reproduites en laboratoires.
Many captains speak about it without really being listened to. Here, finally, the explanation of rogues waves and are reproduced in the same laboratories.
WebBuzz du 10/10/2016: Superbe Timelapse et effets de zoom sur Singapour-Beautiful Time Lapse Tilt Shift Singapore
La technique du timelapse est assez longue apprendre. Mais quant le photographe joue avec, voici ce que cela peut donner. Extraordinaires jeux de lumières et d'effets de zoom sur ces séquences enregistrées à Singapour.
The technique of timelapse is long enough to learn. But as the photographer plays with, here's what it can give. Special lighting effects and zoom effect on these sequences recorded in Singapore.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
WebBuzz du 19/03/2015: Manteau disco pour chien-Disco dog goat
Voici un projet qui va donner un air de disco à votre petit chien. Il s'agit d'un manteau pour petit chien constituer de plusieurs leds de couleurs et contrable avec votre smart phone. Il existe déjà plusieurs type d'animations et lorsque le manteau n'est plus en communication avec votre smart phone, le manteau indique alors "chien perdu", ce qui peut être utile...
Here is a project that will give a disco look to your little dog. This is for a small dog coat be more leds colors and contrable with your smart phone. There are already several types of entertainment and when the coat is no longer communicating with your smart phone, coat then shows "lost dog", which can be useful ...
WebBuzz du 03/03/2017 : Timelapse enregistré en infra rouge-Infrared timelapse
Et pour finir la semaine, voici un timelapse un peu particulier. En effet ce dernier a été enregistré uniquement avec des prises de vue infra-rouge donnant au paysage un aspect extra-terrestre...
And to finish the week, here is a special timelapse. Indeed the latter was recorded only with infra-red shots giving the landscape an extraterrestrial aspect ...
WebBuzz du 05/04/2016: Entrainement d'escrime contre un drône-Fencing Quadrotor Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
Les drônes sont fascinants pour les ingénieurs. Ils sont légers et facile à programmer. Ce chercheur a mis au point un programme d'évitement. Et depuis, il s'est mis à l'escrime. Dois t on y voir une inspiration directement tiré de la guerre des étoiles ?
The drones are fascinating for engineers. They are lightweight and easy to program. This researcher has developed an avoidance program. And since he started fencing. T Do we see inspiration drawn directly from Star Wars?
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.








