- “Imagine an invisible button between your thumb and index fingers – you can press it by tapping your fingers together. Or a Virtual Dial that you turn by rubbing thumb against index finger. Imagine grabbing and pulling a Virtual Slider in thin air. These are the kinds of interactions we are developing and imagining.”
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About Project Soli…
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.. - “With today’s smartphones, it’s possible to capture decent photos of the stars, planets, aurorae, meteors, satellites and the International Space Station – if you know the right tricks.I’ve been using my iPhone for astrophotography since 2012, and have learned some techniques for taking night photos that show more than fuzzy, out-of-focus dots. All of the photos in this article were taken with my iPhone unless otherwise noted, and here’s how you can achieve similar results.”
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Even before tonight’s event, it is possible to shoot photos of space using just your phone.
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.. - A useful website to look at to figure out how good the camera really is on a smartphone – although as always, broader research is a good idea.
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.. - “This is also how the smartphone app Shazam can recognize a song. It splits the music into chunks, then uses Fourier’s trick to figure out the ingredient notes that make up each chunk. It then searches a database to see if this “fingerprint” of notes matches that of a song they have on file. Speech recognition uses the same Fourier-fingerprinting idea to compare the notes in your speech to that of a known list of words.”
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This article is by now gloriously outdated – things move fast in the tech world – but still is a useful article about Fourier transforms.
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.. - And finally, here’s context for today’s links! The Pixel 4 will be launched today, and while the phone is almost certain to be out of my budget (sob!), I remain excited about the phone itself. I have the Pixel 2 right now, and the camera on that phone has converted me from a “What’s the big deal about cameras on phones?” to a compulsive clicker of photographs.
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