Found This Week #64
Photo Of The Week

This week I had the honour of meeting and photographing Arnocorps at the first gig of their Unbelievable Tour in Cardiff. If you haven’t heard of Arnocorps, they are an Arnold Schwarzenegger tribute rock/metal band.
All of their songs are based on his films and the lyrics are comprised of his lines from the films. As crazy as that sounds, they are so much fun and fantastic musicians. Their shows are a mixture of positive reinforcement, inspirational interactions with the crowd in the form of body building pose-offs mid song, head banging tunes and one of the most enjoyable gigs you will ever attend. Check out the Unbelievable Tour 2017 details here.
The shot above is from the start of their track “Terminator” where the lead singer Holzfeuer assumes the crouched terminator time travel position. As luck would have it, my shot was taken at the same moment their tour photographer Neil Jarvie took a shot using his flash gun, resulting in a scene that looks even more like that famous scene from Terminator! :-)
You can check out the rest of my gig shots here. Caahhm Ahhn, Doo It Now!
In this week’s post: Stem cells, teapots, neural networks, faces & brain waves, Google Glass EE, Mira, floating birds and the ISS.
Each Friday I share some of the best things I encounter, from the internet mostly but also from real life! Hopefully what I find interesting will also be interesting to you :-)
Stem Cells Partially Reverse Paralysis

A human trial at the University of Southern California involved injecting 10 million stem cells into the spinal cord of paralysed patients. Kristopher Boesen is one of 5 trial participants to regain some mobility. Having previously being paralysed from the neck down, Kris can now move his upper body, arms and hands.
The Utah Teapot

This is a great article from Nautilus on the Utah Teapot, a benchmark 3D object used for years by computer graphics researchers which has had cameos in The Simpsons and Toy Story.
H/T to Jenn for sharing this.
A Hackers Guide To Neural Networks

A site created to explain neural networks using code instead of too much complex mathematics. The site’s author had intended to expand the site but instead started teaching at Stanford and links to the class notes for more details instead.
Reconstructing Faces From Brain Waves

Researches at CalTech showed faces to monkeys, recorded their neuron activity and brain scans, and then successfully reconstructed the faces using the brain wave data.
On a slightly related, Apple posted an article on their machine learning blog about how to increase the accuracy of synthetically generated images used to train neural networks.
Google Glass EE

Google Glass has come back from the dead as Google Glass Enterprise Edition. The AR glasses are used in industry by companies such as GE, Boeing and Volkswagen to help factory line workers follow steps, lookup data and contact colleagues for help. The device removes the dependancy for factory floor ruggedised workstations and laptops, which can only be used by one worker at a time and require the worker to leave their area of work.

The device has a better camera and better battery life than the first version, and has also been redesigned to allow it to be attached to different glasses frames and googles. Daqri are the leaders in professional AR but the Glass EE looks much less intrusive than the DAQRI unit, albeit with less functionality presumably too.
MIRA

Mira is an AR headset startup that raised $1.5m in funding for their augmented reality headset. The unit is powered by an iPhone placed on your forehead, with the images from the screen reflected onto clear lenses. The headset costs $99 dollars. The founders, 2 undergrad students at USC, used $10 plastic fishbowls bought on Amazon to build the prototype used to raise the funding.
Designed Degradations

This is a nice post by Juan J. Ramirez about designing products to work in a limited fashion in limiting conditions.
Frame Rate Synchronicity
The flapping of this bird’s wings is perfectly synced with the frame rate of the camera, resulting in this amazing video.
Cool Thing Of The Week: ISS Street View

Google Street View released a 360 image of the Cupola Module on the International Space Station.
See you next week :-)
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