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ReviewsAccessories & WearablesFujifilm’s Tiny Photo Printer Made Me a Better Pokémon Snap Photographer
One of the best features of the original N64 Pokémon Snap game was bringing your memory card to a Blockbuster Video and printing out a sticker sheet of your favorite shots. Fujifilm has rekindled that functionality for the new Switch version of Pokémon Snap with a rebranded smartphone printer that inspired me to improve my … Continued
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Earther40,000-Year-Old Rock Art Is Being Destroyed Due to Climate Change
The climate crisis has taken so much away from us that we’ll never get back: people, places, wildlife, even languages. Now, it’s destroying some of the oldest art on Earth, new research led by Griffith University shows. The study focuses on ancient paintings in the limestone caves of southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Drawn between 20,000 and … Continued
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Tech NewsCultureResearchers Get a Deeper Look at Some of the Oldest Color Photos Ever
Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no pigments or dyes of any kind in his work. They sought to identify the original colors captured in Lippmann’s photographs and recreate the images using a similar process to that of the 19th-century photographer. The paper was published … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeResearchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever
If you’ve ever redone a room in your house and gone to the hardware store to pick out some fresh paint, you know that there’s a lot of different shades of white on the market. Turns out, there’s a new shade of white in town—and this one may have some pretty cool (literally) climate implications. … Continued
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Tech NewsNew Photo Colorizing Process Factors In How Skin Reacts to Light For Incredibly Lifelike Results
Film stocks from a century ago weren’t just limited to only capturing details in black and white; they could only capture a limited band of the color spectrum, resulting in images of famous individuals that didn’t accurately represent how they actually looked. So a new approach to colorization using AI finally takes that into account, … Continued
