03/04/2008 In Advertising, Science & Technology by argikon
I realize this is old news, but I just came across it recently. Columbia TriStar created an amazing water-hologram to promote the Japanese premiere of their movie, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. This type of hologram uses a water screen created by light projected on a precisely aimed water jet to create [...]
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28/03/2008 In Science & Technology by argikon
For more than a century, Thomas Edison was generally considered the father of recorded sound. Now researchers have unearthed a recording that predates Edison’s by 17 years. Little known Frenchman, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, invented the phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. The recently discovered recording, [...]
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