A paper - thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy
from human motion, it can act as a loudspeaker and microphone as well, nanotechnology researchers report in the May 16 edition of Nature Communications.
A new nanogenerator that acts like a second skin and harvests energy
from human motions can easily generate enough power to light 20 small LEDs.
Not exact matches
The metaphor is Adam Smith's, who went on to observe in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that «the pieces upon the chess - board have no other principle of
motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them,» whereas «in the great chess - board of
human society, every single piece has a principle of
motion of its own, altogether different
from that with the legislature might choose to impress upon it.»
In this passage, Zeus prepares to set in
motion a play of
human carnage: The blood is a sign of coming destruction
from his pitiless hand.
This result demonstrates that
humans can use auditory
motion parallax to estimate relative distances
from sound sources,» Wiegrebe points out.
The authors suggest that the observed laws might describe a variety of dynamic phenomena
from the
motion of synthetic active particles to animal flocks and herds,
human crowd or opinion dynamics and help to formulate the general laws of collective behaviour.
Using previous data
from present - day
humans, chimps and monkeys, Pontzer's group documented a relationship between the shape and orientation of the lower pelvis and the energy available for a range of
motions involved in walking and climbing.
This same
motion also helps to generate our planet's powerful magnetic field, which protects large life forms like
humans from deadly cosmic radiation.
Motion sickness has been around for as long as
humans have been mobile - in fact, the word nausea is derived
from the Greek word for boat.
The
Human Touch Reflex - 4 Foot and Calf Shiatsu Massager, features what they call, CirQlation technology, which is uses a patented figure 8
motion to circulate blood
from the lower extremities, through the calves, and up into the core area, which enhances tissue repair and promotes relaxation.
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from the groundbreaking new software on
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from Muscle &
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As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap
from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed
humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop -
motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).
Extras include an expected array of featurettes, audio commentary
from the director, and - perhaps of the greatest interest to the fans - a series of
motion comic «prequels» covering the background of the various
human characters.
Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic
human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe
from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow -
motion arcs.
But what really lends this film its
human face are the next - level
motion - captured performances
from Andy Serkis as Caesar but also Karin Konoval, who is amazingly expressive as Maurice.
Mila Kunis will lend her voice to Hell & Back, an R - rated stop -
motion animated comedy
from Tom Gianas (
Human Giant) and Ross Shuman (Robot Chicken).
And that's exactly what Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV delivers, including large scale battles of fire - breathing monsters, superhuman acrobatics
from military style warriors and eye - popping vistas created with a sublimely crisp and seamless blend of
human motion - capture technology and animation.
It's the latest Nick Park stop -
motion animation about a group of Bronze Age
humans forced to save their home
from a deadly enemy - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 14th January 2018
When a venture into the Negative Zone goes horribly wrong, they are all transformed - Reed Richards (Miles Teller) stretches his limits as Mr. Fantastic, Sue Storm (Kate Mara) fades
from view as Invisible Girl, Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan) heats up as The
Human Torch, Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell in full
motion capture glory) gets prickly as the Thing, and Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell) lives up to his name as Dr. Doom.
His frames are packed with chromatic and textural details and often separated
from the viewer by environmental scrims (curtains, door frames, windowpanes,
human blurs of foreground
motion).
Plus BioRID's segmented neck can produce the
motion observed by
human necks in real - world crashes in which vehicles are struck
from behind.
Just like
humans, pets can suffer
from motion sickness.
Developed
from the ground up for VR and
motion control devices like Oculus Rift and Sixense Stem System, players will be able to interact with objects within the environment to solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Loading
Human's story - driven gameplay.
The latest BioShock Infinite video explains how four women brought Elizabeth to life as a
human character,
from voice acting to
motion capture, level design and facial animation.
New and Original Movement System - Built
from the ground up that empowers the player with super
human movement abilities with next to no
motion sickness.
Created over the course of three years
from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted
human figures both supine and in
motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.
«Study
from the
Human Body» takes its title
from a major painting by Francis Bacon which conveys a naked man in
motion rendered in characteristic brush strokes of pink, purple and white.
Steinkamp is one of the most important video and new media artists of her generation, and she brings a heightened focus on
human sensory experience through her phenomenological installations, using light,
motion, and sound to dematerialize and activate space, setting her oeuvre apart
from that of her peers.
From Muybridge «The
human Figure in
Motion: Woman Emptying a Bowl of Water / Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours», 1965
The Figure: Movement and Gesture focuses on the movement of transformation
from figuration into abstraction and the complex ways that de Kooning depicted
motion as he rendered the
human figure.
In the 1970s, she produced a series of Torsos, cast aluminum shells that jut out
from the wall, and Knots, brightly colored ribbons that resemble
human figures in
motion.
Studio items such as the manipulation of photographs including those of John Deakin, Peter Stark and Peter Beard; reproductions of Muybridge's pioneering studies of the
human figure and animals in
motion; images torn
from books, magazines and newspapers of skin diseases, war atrocities, boxers, wildlife, art, lovers and friends all of which are of intense interest and relevance in the field of contemporary art practice.
His explorations range
from light and
motion to
human interactions in urban settings.
Focusing on the period of rapid technological and cultural change
from 1870 to 1904, the exhibition will be centred around Muybridge's celebrated experimental works showing animals and
humans in
motion.
These two video pieces both employ high tech 3D scanning and
motion animation techniques and apply them to objects
from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the
human / nature divide.
Christie did a large number of sketches
from life and was fascinated with the
human form in
motion.
One of the ways our world differs
from the quantum world shows up in these rotations and vibrations of «diatomic molecules» — molecules made up of two atoms: while
human dancers can spin or move back and forth as fast or slow as they wish (within the limits of their physical capabilities), molecules can only vibrate or rotate at specific rates — their
motions are «quantized.»
The
motion was brought by members of the BMA's Retired Members Forum as well as several local committees and follows an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in March that called for divestment
from fossil fuels because of the «scale and immediacy of the threat to
human survival, health and wellbeing» posed by unmitigated climate change.
An audience of senior lawyers
from law firms, chambers, and inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the
motion that «the European Court of
Human Rights is Undermining Democracy» at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening.
At a press conference on February 6, 2012, Steve Woodworth, backbench Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre stated that he tabled a
motion in Parliament calling for the creation of a special committee to study medical and scientific evidence about when a child can be considered a
human being separate
from the mother.
[1] The moving party, Amnesty International («Amnesty»), brings this
motion for an Order granting it leave to intervene in three related actions brought by the individual plaintiffs, Mayan Q'eqchi» individuals
from Guatemala, who claim alleged
human rights abuses committed against them by the subsidiaries of Canadian mining companies.
There's a lyrical quality that slow
motion imparts to some things, arising, I suppose,
from the fact that the
motion is itself beautiful to the
human eye and slow
motion simply gives us more — more of the
motion, more time to appreciate it.
In the midst of the criticism it is easy to forget the positives which will prevail
from the proposals, eg the Commission has set in
motion initiatives to fight racism,
human trafficking and doping in sport and enhance public health through physical activity.
The appeal by Maple Leaf arises
from the
motion judge's decision concluding that Maple Leaf owed a duty of care to the franchisees «in relation to the production, processing, sale and distribution of the RTE Meats» and a duty of care «with respect to any representations made that the RTE Meats were fit for
human consumption and posed no risk of harm.»
Amanda is paralyzed
from the waist down, and while this suit gave her the gift of movement, it couldn't give her the symmetry and freedom of range of
motion that she, like all
humans, craved.
It reveals tiny changes -
from the rippling of a woman's stomach as a baby moves inside, the actual way the blood flows in the
human body, how fast your heart is beating, to the wobbly
motion of your eyeballs inside of your skull, vibrations of individual guitar strings.
Amazon expresses sensitivity in terms of detecting a
human - sized objects in
motion at 20, 10, or five feet,
from high to low, respectively.
The camera has
motion detection, and the now fairly ubiquitous «
human identification» ability that allows cameras to discern a
human from any other creature.