Actors Fitting The Part
Christian Bale’s weight gain for the upcoming film “Backseat” isn’t the only time an actor has made a drastic transformation.
Industrial discharge is the dominant mercury source in Korea’s west coast
Minamata, a British film released in 2021, is a drama based on the true story of an American photographer documenting how the citizens of Minamata, Japan, became ill due to the industrial discharge dumped into the river by a Japanese corporation. The Minamata disease, mentioned in the movie, is a neuromuscular disorder resulting from mercury […]
Simple, accurate, and efficient: Improving the way computers recognize hand gestures: Optical hand gesture recognition sees improvements in accuracy and complexity with new algorithm
In the 2002 science fiction blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise’s character John Anderton uses his hands, sheathed in special gloves, to interface with his wall-sized transparent computer screen. The computer recognizes his gestures to enlarge, zoom in, and swipe away. Although this futuristic vision for computer-human interaction is now 20 years old, today’s humans […]