Gadgetory

hey guys my name is Steven Beecham and here just happening this week on SEANET scrambler augmented reality is making leaps and bounds as of late with products like microsoft's hololens and other apps that allow you to see digital objects rendered over the real world well this week of Google back startup called magic leaf released a short video showing off what it can potentially be capable of in the video we see a demo of a small robot hiding under a desk the video has a disclaimer on of stating that the video was shot directly through magic leaf technology on October 14th 2015 without the use of special effects or compositing as the user moves closer to the robot we notice that the leg of the desk is in front of the robot suggesting some sort of 3d mapping technology the video continues with an amazing look at our solar system and augmented reality as a woman works in the background editor computer last March magic leaf released its first product video showing off the interfaces and then a game where the user is blasting robots with a futuristic weapon so if this is any indication of what we're in store for in the next few years you can count me in a lego genius by the name of Jason alman aka jkbrickworks.com nation safe out of LEGO bricks and produced a short video along with instructions on how to build your own used an older Millennium Falcon piece from 2003 to create the dial for the safe which when turned to the proper positions will unlock the deadbolt inside the safe and allow you to take it out of its housing revealing the golden Lego bricks inside the safe was built in a way where it cannot be easily taken apart when locked one would have to physically break the LEGO pieces and destroy the safe altogether but if you know the secret combination the golden Lego bricks inside can be yours read more about the lego safe and watch the entire video embedded in the crave blog post sit back relax and enjoy 45 minutes of slow motion NASA Apollo rocket launches set to mellow piano music sounds mildly enjoyable YouTube user space videos has put together a long slow drawn-out video of Apollo 8 Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 in 16-millimeter launch views according to the video's description you can find the entire video embedded in the crave blog post Harvard is developing a tiny drone called the Robo V that can both fly through the air like a bee and swim through water kind of like a jellyfish we're now moving past quadcopters in larger drones and entering into the age of insect sized drone robots which is kind of scary engineers at Harvard Johnson a Paulsen School of Engineering and Applied Science microbiotic slab studied the flying and swimming habits of the puffins a bird that flies and swims using its wings and discovered a lot of similarities between flapping wings for flight and flapping fins for swimming the Robo B was outfitted with very fragile and thin wings and was programmed to flap its wings at a rate of 120 beats per second for flight when the Robo B enters the water the speed of the wing flapping is then slowed to nine beats per second for slower safer travel through water that won't damage the wings the wings also change their angle of attack for both flight and in the water the Robo B currently has to be tethered to a power source because having an onboard power source at this point would make it too heavy for flight and it also cannot take off from water yet because of weight restrictions but it's a start and in the coming years we can look forward to swarms of robotic bees that can follow you into the water so don't you worry right guys that was a show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories that see-that's crave blogg I crave cnet.com make sure you follow crave on Twitter at crave and check out this week's crab giveaway this week's crib giveaway is the fluence FI 50 Bluetooth speaker win a wireless speaker that got high marks from CNET for its premium sound and affordability go to the blog and enter to win yes