Amazing, the number of apparently outdoor scenes in movies and TV shows that are actually filmed inside, using “green screen” technology.
Via that’s how it happened.

Cornucopia, a microwave like device – using technology similar to a 3-D printer – may one day do away with the need to cook meals… by instead literally “printing out” plates of food.
The early concept for Cornucopia is a machine that looks like a microwave, but with canisters of ingredients on top and [...]

Flash powered websites can be a challenge to use at the best of times, but spare a thought for those using devices that don’t support it, and more so where no alternative – such as an HTML version – is offered either.
But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link [...]

The BBC is in the process of digitising years worth of TV shows, from comedies to documentaries.
Since the last three years, about 50,000 hours of visual content have been digitised. This still accounts for less than 10 per cent of the total content. At present, most of the digitised content is not available for [...]

Laser scanning technology can create three dimensional digital representations of objects – such as buildings, monuments, and even mountains – that offer far greater detail than the highest resolution photos ever could.
So precise are these digital models that they can be used not only to facilitate much needed restoration work of deteriorating monuments but [...]

20 years old today, but Photoshop didn’t have layers until 1994… how did anyone manage without them?
At the time its toolset was pretty limited and the application wasn’t capable of much. A second version, featuring paths followed later in the year, but it wasn’t until 1994 that version 3 with a new feature called [...]

A short video demonstration of how Augmented Reality (AR) technology may work, with making a cup of tea as an example.

Ten of the world’s best online museums: given museums can only physically display a fraction of their actual collections, it is well worth checking out their websites, which often feature high definition scans of many of their unseen artifacts.
Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even [...]

A good primer on 3D image technology and how it works.
3D imagery has been around for ages, mostly as a gimmick, but things have changed in the past few years. The current incarnation of digital-quality 3D photography, combined with high-quality and distortion free viewing technologies, is finally mature enough to warrant an industry-wide technology [...]

Water droplet powered adhesive gloves, driven by a mechanism no bigger than a credit card, may soon give all of us Spiderman like abilities, though the suction technology is currently in its infancy… so far nothing much heavier than a cat can climb walls.
To make the device sticky, a film of water, held in [...]