An interesting project that shows automatic control that brings back the pendulum to its upright position. This is not easy as it goes against the force of gravity and needs some balancing act as well. This was carried out by Magnus Linderoth and Kristian Soltesz during the winter 2006-2007 at the department of automatic control Lund, Sweden.

1 videoclip of the inverted pendulum automatic control after the jump.

Motion Portrait is a cool digital animation technology that allows an ordinary digital photograph of a face into a living 3D animation. It works by automatically recognizing the eyes, nose and mouth and animating these creates a whole range of emotions that can be manipulated.

A framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. The system can easily increase the resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. It also allows a user to remove unwanted objects as well as camera shake from the video.

A glimpse of what the future has in store for us, Sony unveiled the world’s first flexible full-colored OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor technology. It supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, at 0.3 mm thick and weighs only 1.5 grams. In the future, it can even be wrapped around a person’s wrist or even worn as clothing or put up as a wallpaper.

TopGear episode in which they crash a Renault Megane into another at over thirty miles an hour. Poor guy in the test crash hardly gets his head straight answering questions pertaining to the crash with his hands still shaking. 1 videoclip after the jump.

The human head (Doug Jones who has starred in Hellboy, Pa’s Labyrinth, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) real time rendering demo for the latest Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card. 1 videoclip afer the jump.