Thanks to the Patriot Act, none of us Rochester residents knew that Kodak had a nuclear reactor hidden deep in the depths of its Rochester campus, no doubt a key component of their diabolical LIVEPrint Printer series.
UnEasyshare: Kodak’s now-defunct, Rochester-based nuclear reactor: Engadget
Ready for this unsettling Kodak moment? It seems the one-time imaging powerhouse held a decades-long secret deep in a bunker below Building 82 on its Rochester campus. The now vacant facility, a concrete-shielded chamber built in 1974, was once home to a californium neutron flux multiplier (CFX) or, in layman’s terms, a small nuclear reactor as recently as six years ago. Certainly, that’s not the technology one would normally associate with an outfit built on the foundations of photography, but according to recently released documents, its three and a half pound store of enriched uranium was used primarily for neutron radiography — an imaging technique — and chemical purity testing. The site’s long been shut down and the radioactive material in question carted off with federal oversight, but for denizens of that upstate New York territory, alarming news of the reactor’s existence has only just surfaced. Before you cast Kodak the evil side eye, bear in mind post-9/11 policies forbade the company from making the whereabouts of its small reactor widely known, though earlier scientific studies did make reference to the CFX’s existence. It’s an eye-opening glimpse into the esoteric machinations of private industry and the deadly dangers that lurk below your feet.
UnEasyshare: Kodak’s now-defunct, Rochester-based nuclear reactor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Adobe’s new Edge program, part of the newly-released Creative Suite 6, basically does what Flash can do- create animations, interface design, etc.- but it does it with HTML5 and JavaScript. It’s basically a frontend for HTML5’s incredibly powerful Canvas element. I cannot WAIT to dive into this app.
This is actually pretty damn hilarious. If only our students spent as much time chasing real women as they do coding imaginary ones….
According to a rumor, the next Xbox’s controller may feature the ability to detect a “squeeze” from the user as input, possibly for ID’ing the player. Hey, it’s bound to work better than the Kinect’s Facial Recognition….
Here’s Hoping The Next Xbox Really Does Feature Squeeze-Controls [Durango]Kotaku
A report over at Engadget shows a patent filed by Microsoft for a device that uses “personalization using a hand-pressure signature.” The image in their patent filing is a chunky, lovable Xbox 360 controller that, going by the title, will be able to detect your identity based on your hand-pressure via a “presure sensitive surface.” And maybe read your fingerprints? More »
It’s like Cub Scouts all over again- only this time I don’t have Power Rangers on TV to distract me from earning these babies.
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