You Can Actually OWN a “DeLorean” Hovercraft!

Did you now that someone actually built a DIY DeLorean hovercraft, and this hovercraft could be yours for the right money? Current bid is for the vehicle is $22,500, about half of what the maker was asking last year. Behold:

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After blowing people’s minds for the last 7 years, San Francisco artist Matt Riese is auctioning his custom handmade Delorean Hovercraft! Check out this insane highlight reel of it hovering over land and water! The 7-day auction goes from Monday, October 28th to Monday, November 4th, 2019 and will be hosted by specialty vintage car auction website BringATrailer.com

The hovercraft comes with its own custom tilting hover-on/off flatbed trailer and free phone consultations with the builder for any questions you might have.

This thing is one-of-a-kind and will definitely give you the time of your life!

Unfortunately, the hovercraft only has a top speed of 31 MPH… so forget about travelling to the past Back to the Future style. This baby needs to reach 88 MPH for the magic to happen!

[The Delorean Hovercraft]

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November 4, 2019 at 02:31PM

November 4, 2019

NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs give a speed boost to Adobe’s AI features

https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/04/nvidia-rtx-adobe-app-speed-boost/

NVIDIA has unveiled a new RTX GPU features that will accelerate a new AI feature in Premiere Pro and speed up Adobe’s 3D apps, Dimension and Substance Alchemist. As Adobe just announced, Premiere has a new feature called Auto Reframe that can analyze content in a regular, 16×9 horizontal video and automatically convert it to a vertical smartphone format. That process can take a long time, but NVIDIA said it will go 400 percent faster on NVIDIA RTX GPUs compared to just using the CPU.

As it does with games, RTX GPUs will also allow Adobe Dimension users to speed up rendering of 3D environments (an example is shown above) that use dynamic lighting, reflections and soft shadows. "We’re also adding interactive ray tracing that will enable artists to render fantastic 3D photorealistic scenes that take their environments to the next level," said ADobe’s 3D and AR director of engineering, Ross McKegney.

The RTX tricks will also speed up the latest version of Adobe’s Substance Alchemist, a tool that helps artists create realistic textures for 3D objects. That app will take advantage of AI deep learning built into RTX GPUs, NVIDIA notes. "Material creation that used to take an artist hours of painstaking masking and editing to remove lighting can now be done by AI in seconds," according to Adobe.

Finally, NVIDIA unveiled its latest Studio Driver, promising to boost performance in compatible Creative Cloud apps like Adobe Premiere and After Effects. It’ll also boost other apps like Autodesk Arnold, Cinebench and Redcine-X Pro. The new driver and features for Adobe’s apps are now available.

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November 4, 2019 at 11:06AM

November 4, 2019

Google News can display stories in two languages in your feed

https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/04/google-news-two-languages-one-feed/

If you’re fluent in two languages, there’s a good chance you want to read news stories in both — say, to keep up with both your country of origin and the one you now call home. And if that’s the case, Google now has your back. Google has updated News for Android and iOS with support for displaying stories in two languages with just a single feed. You could keep up with both American and Korean news, or even use the same language to keep tabs on news in different countries.

The approach is now available in Google News’ language settings for 141 countries and 41 language variants. This won’t be a complete help if you’re a full-fledged polyglot who speaks three or more languages, but it beats having to use multiple apps or the web to get a more complete picture of the news that matters.

Source: Google, App Store, Google Play

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November 4, 2019 at 11:30AM

November 4, 2019

Teenager solves car blind spots using a webcam and projector

https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/04/teenager-solves-blind-spots/

As every cyclist knows, the blind spots caused by a car’s roof pillars can be extremely dangerous. Although companies are working on various high-tech solutions for this problem, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania has taken a more low-tech approach to create an ingenious fix for the issue.

Alaina Gassler of West Grove came up with the idea for the project after seeing her mother struggle with blind spots while driving. Gassler decided to put a webcam on the outer roof pillar of a car which could record everything that was masked from the driver’s view. Then, she used a projector to display the live feed from the webcam onto the interior pillar, with 3D-printed parts aligning the image exactly between the window and the windshield.

The approach is startlingly effective, with the car pillars appearing almost translucent and the driver easily able to see into the blind spots even when the car is in motion. Gassler says she used reflective fabric to make the image brighter and clearer, and to reflect the image only to the driver.

For her efforts, Gassler won the top award at the Broadcom Masters science and engineering competition for middle schoolers and was awarded a $25,000 prize. With her use of fairly simple and affordable materials, her idea could eventually make its way into commercial vehicles as a standard safety feature.

Via: Gizmodo

Source: YouTube, Society for Science & the Public

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November 4, 2019 at 05:12AM