Ever wanted to resize or crop a photo without losing essential details or having weird artifacts due to a changed aspect-ratio? Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg
I can imagine lots of applications for this, both good (remove your ex from that awesome group shot from a few years back) and evil (alter photographic evidence being presented at a trial). I guess an interesting but probably much harder next step would be to use similar algorithms to transform a video stream.
Now here’s an awesome idea: AWD bicycles (two wheel drive, in other words). When mountain biking up steep grades with a normal bike, you have to lean forward to avoid doing a wheelie, but balance your weight carefully between the forward and rear to keep traction to the rear wheel. There have been many times I’ve ended up either walking my bike up really steep sections, or tried to keep riding but ended up losing traction and totally biffing it. I can imagine an AWD bike would make these steep grades much easier.
(via bramcohen)
This looks cool. I want to try it!
