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Johnny Lee on TED

By Kristian Tapaninaho on 12/04/2008 in Video

Johnny Lee, creator of the coolest Wiimote hacks out there, appears at TED for a short demo. £40 interactive white board, anyone?

–kristian

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CSI:NY

By Kristian Tapaninaho on 10/04/2008 in Video

SCI:NY show the elegant way of taking out the crooks. Check it out!

–kristian

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Polar Bears Endangered in Finland

By kristian tapaninaho on 04/01/2008 in Environment, Video

This must be due to the fact that it’s quite rare these days to spot penguins south of 64 degrees*. It makes sense really; polar bears are famous for feasting on small mammals like penguins and then withdrawing themselves under the ever-frost to digest. If there’s no penguins or ever-frost, they must either move somewhere else or die. Full National Geographic story here, including a video.

–kristian

*This is my own personal observation, I have no scientific data to back it up but my old neighbor agrees with me.

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Face Transformation

By Kristian Tapaninaho on 24/11/2007 in Personal, Video

Have you ever wondered what you might look like if you were, say, a baby, of opposite sex, from different racial background or an El Greco painting? I hadn’t until I found a website showing some of the research done at University of St Andrew’s. Have a look for yourself. It’s a a web app which allows you to upload a portrait and modify it to look like something else. It’s actually quite fun. Following video shows me transforming to an El Greco painting over and over again. Nine times.

Fun, eh? I look like a dog by the end of it. [edit: a really sick dog.]

Thanks to Akseli Koskela for linking to this.

–kristian

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