{"id":16692,"date":"2012-08-22T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2024-01-16T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:15:02","slug":"roundup-mathmagical-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/08\/roundup-mathmagical-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Mathmagical Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll start ya off with a cartoon that involves learning and math and stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Donald in Mathmagic Land&quot;  (4K AI Upscale)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hl6JDv4ZG7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/08\/22\/windows-8-and-windows-phone-8-to-play-nice-with-unity-game-engin\/\">&nbsp;Unity will be supported &#8211; and support &#8211; Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yessir, the Unity game engine will work on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This is awesome because WP8 has taken kernel cues from Windows 8 and will truly support multi-core processing, allowing games like those designed on Unity to be truly kickass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/17217-big-bang-phase-change-theory.html\">New Theory: The Big Bang was a phase shift.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That may sound odd, but scientists have recently theorized that the Big Bang &#8211; beginning of Life, the Universe and Everything &#8211; was actually a phase shift similar to water freezing into ice. They believe that the pre-Bang universe was akin to water, flowing and changing. When the Big Phase Bang Shift (still working on it) happened, the universe &#8220;froze&#8221; into what we now know to be four dimensional space-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/08\/22\/mission-accomplished-the-oatmeal-raises-875000-build-museum-honoring-nikola-tesla\/\">Nikola Tesla Museum has met their goal!&nbsp;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a good day for science! Well, it&#8217;s a great day, since as of this writing the museum fund has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/teslamuseum\">$926,000 in the bank<\/a>, with New York matching $850,000 of that. That&#8217;s $1.7 million to bid on the land (no guarantee of sale) and some extra to build up the museum itself. Good job, everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/08\/eff-tells-obamas-ip-czar-stand-internet-users\">The EFF writes to IP Czar: Stand up for internet users.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EFF, or Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote to&nbsp;Victoria Espinel, the current administration&#8217;s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator &#8211; or IP Czar &#8211; asking for her to stand up for the rights of &nbsp;internet users, as opposed to only backing the big corporations&#8217; plans and ideals. There&#8217;s lots of ideas in the link, but this quote strikes me as good: <em>&#8220;We&#8217;re encouraged, though, to hear a White House policymaker insist that private &#8220;anti-piracy&#8221; agreements must respect individual rights.&#8221; <\/em>Which sound to me like they&#8217;re working on a way to disrupt IP infringement without punishing everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technabob.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/wii-mote-baby-breathing-detector\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechnabobtechNewsBlog+%28Technabob%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">New Father builds breath detector with Wii-Mote and lasers.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"954\" height=\"361\" data-attachment-id=\"16695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/08\/roundup-mathmagical-cartoons\/roundup822\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?fit=954%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"954,361\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"roundup822\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?fit=602%2C227&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?resize=954%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16695\" title=\"roundup822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?w=954&amp;ssl=1 954w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?resize=602%2C227&amp;ssl=1 602w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roundup822.png?resize=180%2C68&amp;ssl=1 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being a new father is disconcerting at best; you&#8217;re constantly worrying if the kiddo is getting into something they shouldn&#8217;t, or if they&#8217;re eating and pooping right. The most&nbsp;worrisome thing for me was sleep: There is much discussion about how to lay your child down to sleep to best ensure that they don&#8217;t succumb to SIDS (or whatever they call it now). This awesome dad built a breathing detection system out of a Wii-mote and three lasers. The Wii-mote detects changes in how the lasers reflect, and if the child&#8217;s breathing stops or changes abnormally, the system sounds an alarm. These things aren&#8217;t usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HiSense-BabySense-Infant-Movement-Monitor\/dp\/B0039UEJCI\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345648015&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=baby+angel+mat\">too expensive<\/a>, but homemade systems are just mo&#8217; betta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/9491914\/Space-art-created-at-100000ft.html\">British Artists creates painting on his way to 100000 feet.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a balloon, dripping paint and a bit of curiosity, a British Entrepreneur named Josh Taylor sent a canvas into space, all the while letting paint drip out of four separate bottles onto the canvas. The result was kinda nifty, but honestly the video is cooler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/21\/3254424\/apple-samsung-trial-closing-arguments\">Apple v Samsung closing arguments clearly outline the problem with current patent law.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the words of Samsung&#8217;s lawyers: Apple thinks they&#8217;re &#8220;entitled to have a monopoly on a rounded rectangle with a touchscreen&#8230;Just think about walking into a Best Buy store. You go into the TV section.<em> All of the TVs look the same.<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;(Emphasis mine) That&#8217;s pretty much the issue here: Do we allow basic shapes\/forms to be protected intellectual property? Or do we just assume that a laptop will have the screen above the keyboard and trackpad, separated by a hinge? &nbsp;Apples comments included gems like &#8216;they never said it looked totally different&#8217; (more or less the quote) which is a point no one argues. I hope this jury has common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2012-08-22\/nikon-android-camera\/57205372\/1\">Nikon announces Android-powered camera line.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Nikon Coolpix S800c is an Android-powered point and shoot with built-in Wi-Fi. Running on Gingerbread (or Android 2.3) the camera is rocking a 16MP backside-illuminated sensor and a 10x Optical zoom on top of the GPS, Wi-Fi and 3.5&#8243; OLED touchscreen monitor. I imagine you can instantly get Instagram and crap-ify your photos without the need for external devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/aerofex-hover-bike-is-the-coolest-vehicle-ever-22243590\/\">Hoverbike is slightly reminiscent of Star Wars.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"16696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/08\/roundup-mathmagical-cartoons\/aerofex-580x369\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?fit=580%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"580,369\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"aerofex-580&amp;#215;369\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?fit=580%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16696\" title=\"aerofex-580x369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?resize=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aerofex-580x369.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This thing is awesome. It&#8217;s essentially two giant fans that you straddle and ride. It&#8217;s apparently so stable that you do not need driver training as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/hoverbike-brings-return-of-the-jedi-to-life-09158371\/\">other designs<\/a>. AeroFex, the company behind this awesomeness, hopes to have a commercial version ready soon. Not that these will replace cars: the noise and rotor wash are quite annoying, but it&#8217;d be fun to take one of these out on a snowy field somewhere and let loose. There isn&#8217;t any software involved in control; it&#8217;s all manual, so it&#8217;s less error prone than you might think. However, it appears that the idea is destined for unmanned drones before human variants are produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll leave y&#8217;all with this: <strong>If good movies had bad fonts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If movies had crappy fonts\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHTYEBVCaaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Museum gets funded, Big Bang gets a twist, Unity rocks Windows 8, and a Hoverbike?!  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