Avengers: Endgame Sites Promise Digital Downloads, Deliver Info-Harvesting

Web scammers are going after Marvel fans as the movie passes the $2.2 billion box-office mark, making it the second-highest grossing film of all time, behind only Avatar. Continue reading Avengers: Endgame Sites Promise Digital Downloads, Deliver Info-Harvesting

Avengers: End Game leaked online soon after releasing in China

By Uzair Amir
Avengers: End Game has been leaked online because why not?  Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated flick ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and cybercriminals are trying … Continue reading Avengers: End Game leaked online soon after releasing in China

Glowing Eyes For Regular Guys

Cosplayers continually push the boundary of what’s possible in live costuming, often taking effects from the silver screen and creating them in real life. [KyleofAsgard] is no exception, bringing Thor’s glowing eyes to life in this impressive build.

The build relies on special contact lenses, which [Kyle] suggests are best sourced by searching for “electric blue contact lenses”. These glow in the presence of UV light, which here is provided by a strip of UV LEDs embedded into Thor’s helmet from the recent Marvel movies.

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1024 “Pixel” Sound Camera Treats Eyes to Real-Time Audio

A few years ago, [Artem] learned about ways to focus sound in an issue of Popular Mechanics. If sound can be focused, he reasoned, it could be focused onto a plane of microphones. Get enough microphones, and you have a ‘sound camera’, with each microphone a single pixel.

Movies and TV shows about comic books are now the height of culture, so a device using an array of microphones to produce an image isn’t an interesting demonstration of FFT, signal processing, and high-speed electronic design. It’s a Daredevil camera, and it’s one of the greatest builds we’ve ever seen.

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