A Throwable, Panoramic Ball-Camera

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A brand new 36-lens compound camera is capable of snapping 360 degree by 360 degree panoramic images. It also happens to be in the shape of a toy ball. The Panono takes photos at the height of a throw, whether between two people or straight upward, while carrying 72 megapixel image quality, all of which are viewable on the ball’s accompanying mobile app. This highly …

Sono

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Reclaim the silence in your apartment or office with an active noise-canceling system—blocking out noisy neighbors, sirens, construction and the like—with the new creation Sono. The small device that suctions right onto the windowpane eliminates noise which would otherwise pass through the glass, and it can even filter out some noises while allowing others to remain active. Having Sono is essentially like putting a volume …

Invisibility Cloak Development

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Though they’re yet to reach Harry Potter level, physicist Andrea Alu and his team are certainly making some headway in their study of invisibility. By scattering and bending light, they’ve totally changed the way you see what lies behind the materials they’re using, but nothing is invisible just yet. Here’s the trouble: The spectrum of light, both visible and invisible, is so vast that it’s …