Remember that scene in 'The Dark Knight' where (spoiler alert!) Batman uses the city's cell-phones to look through walls and find the bad guys? Totally awesome, right!? A group of scientists at
KDDI apparently thought so too, creating a prototype they say could do something similar. Using geomagnetic sensors, accelerometers, and GPS, the device is able to determine its position and render its surroundings on the screen in OpenGL, including areas that are currently out of sight. We're guessing you must have already scanned those areas with the phone and that it can't actually
see through walls, but we'd be happy to be proven wrong -- whenever they actually have something to show us. Like the group's
funky concept phones we brought to you earlier, this one doesn't actually work. Yet.
posted Oct 1st 2008 3:29PM
Yeah? Well according to Microsoft, we'll soon be living a life without walls. So.. Yeah.. Take that.
But without walls... Can there be Windows(tm)?
oh, snap!
They'll make themselves go out of business.
impeccable grammar on the '50's ad.
Grammar didn't exist back then fool.
What's wrong with it? "An" is modifying "Optical" so it should be correct. Just sounds funky.
with soft consonants like H sometimes "an" is used instead of "a".
and people in the 50s were stupid
"an" is only used when the H is silent, not just when it is soft. The H in Hilarious isn't silent, so "a" was the correct article to use. It doesn't matter what word the article is modifying, it only matters what word the article is in front of.
The rule is you use "a" when the next word starts with a consonant sound and "an" when the next word starts with a vowel sound. So "a" goes in front of hilarious, one, union, cat, etc. and "an" goes in front of onion, honorable, honesty, elephant, etc.
Actually, that usage was correct. Just like you would say "an historic occasion." Weird that the first guy to get it right was low-ranked.
so its an xray hero?
I think that using "an" before an "h-" word is appropriate only if the accent is not on the first syllable. Like you would say "a hIstory" but "an histOric."
Thanks, Grant. These guys obviously Googled it and failed to see any further than this preceding factor.
giggity giggity giggity
If anything ever needed a head-mounted display, it's this...
You want to see girl's skeletons?
Phreak...
Invasion of the older indefinite forms preceding non-silent aitches from the black lagoon. WTF!
Yeah, this will be available for Android later this month =P
You jest, but actually, it may be coming to an android phone next month:
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/04/enkin-is-the-li.html
http://www.enkin.net/
Android app that marries gps to accelerometer to camera to google maps to google earth for a taggable 1st person, bird's eye, or top down 3d virtual overlay of any navigable position, including your own.
From their blog, "We have been contacted by Google separately and they, too, are excited about our project."
What do you bet google bought them and this is the tech underneath "compass mode" ?
I'm no Orthopedic specialist, but I gather that one can tell much about the size and weight of a woman's fun bags by the skeletal posture...
and as we know this bit of information is 90% of a man's decision to go out with a female....
just my 2.. um cents...
ZOMFG WALLHAX!!11!!!!1!!!!!!one!!!!!onehundredandeleven!!!!16!!!!!!!!*
*12-year-old gamer impersonation
Well played, sir.
Well damn. I thought this would help me make the right choices when inducting new members into the mile high club.
The name...the avatar...are you trying to suggest something?
Lol hahah XD
I wouldn't have caught that if you didn't comment.
+2 up votes
it's the damnedest thing about mid-century imagery. X-ray vision was always depicted as some magical thing that let you see through any barrier, but it always stopped at the jigglies, never quite making it to the bones. Maybe it was those old-school braziers...
Why not give the man another way to keep an eye on us?
When will scientists stop trying to see me naked?
An grammatical error
Who was the (spoiler alert!) for? I did the math and approximately everyone anywhere ever has seen the Dark Knight
"The x-rays were penetrating
Through the latex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
Fell from the rayon trees"
Looks cool.....
Is this hazardous to our health.....????
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Maybe what they meant is an Augmented Reality prototype. This one can already see underground utility assets for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkwd4MUxZzs
Or, also other AR work done on a phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbze3HscqU&feature=user