This looks fascinating.
[Film]: Cosmonaut Trailer
[Tech]: Real-time Modular 3D Mapping
I don’t pretend to understand it completely but this is cool.
During his sabbatical at Willow Garage, Stéphane Magnenat from the Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich integrated a new Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) solution. SLAM allows a robot to build a map of its environment, and to localize itself in this map. This system is based on a modular ICP algorithm, a collaboration with François Pomerleau and Francis Colas at the Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich.
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Human Rights
From NPR’s Morning edition –
Egyptian Women Speak Out Against Sexual Violence at Protests
“Most often a culture of silence prevails, and the victim is blamed rather than the rapist.”
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AwesomeBox
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Caffeinated Pick: Maptote
Most likely I’ll be switching the design posts over to my design blog, Coffeteer, sometime soon. Here’s a recent post from there –
Debuting a new series wherein every Friday I highlight a design website I love. Today’s pick is Maptote, a Brooklyn-based company that makes products decorated with maps of both local and exotic places. These include everything from note cards to bandannas, zip pouches, and of course, custom-made totes.
Background:
When a stylist and a cartographer fall in love and get married, what do they make (besides babies)? In the case of Brooklyn couple Rachel Rheingold and Michael Berick, they create Maptote, a line of products decorated with maps of locales both domestic and exotic.
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Quotidian: Anais Nin
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Caffeinated Links
– 7 Seinfeld Plots that Happened in Real Life
–Why Are We So Ashamed of Our Women Heroes? – Charles Clymer on how it’s not okay for guys to put up a poster of Hilary Clinton on their wall
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Quoditian (Life Advice)
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Quotidian
-Theodore Roosevelt
Coffee and Irony 