Physics: A round-up of recent interesting links!

My aplogies for my light posting of late. Outside commitments have kept me from posting nearly as much as I would like. Here is a collection of links that I have saved up over the last several weeks to blog about. I hope you enjoy them, but please note that some of these are not serious, scientific articles - just because it can be found on the Internet doesn't make it science, much less forensic science! If you are particularly interested in any of the topics addressed below, just let me know and I'll delve further in a future posting.

K-Lite codec package update

X-rays made from Scotch(R) tape (hat tip to A.A.)

Superconductivity Can Induce Magnetism

Deaf people feel their way to speech

Seeing Through The Skin: Optic-less Imaging Technology Could Beat Lens-based Imaging Devices

HOWTO read the secret forensic dots in your laser-printer output

Biometric identifcation by body language

Sound-card oscilloscope

Audio bone headphones

Scientists Watch As Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words

Hidden airport scanner will pinpoint terrorists

Overpaid professions

Military camouflage

Police probe cell phones to catch criminals

How magicians control your mind

How forensic lab techniques work

Computers reassemble pieces of fractured archaeology

Review of Microsoft's Photosynth

Images of atmospheric optics

12 worst Photoshop mistakes ever

Darpa super-resolution vision technology R&D

How other senses adjust to blindness

Family name geographical profiler

Miscellaneous - List of links for audio geeks

Too much work PLUS too few mentally productive hours EQUALS a list of links without any in-depth analysis. Sorry about that, but I hope to return to blogging more seriously soon. Until then, enjoy these:

Stereo from a single box (Blumlein was an audio genius. If you are an audiophile, I suggest you read a biography on him sometime.)

How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry

Acoustic superlens could mean finer ultrasound scans

Ultra-thin digital voice recorder

Noise reduction technology for cell/mobile phones (Note that the sales spiel uses words like "crystal" and "pristine" but you can clearly hear artifacting at low levels. Not trying to be overly critical, but couldn't they have let the results speak for themselves without the spin?)