Camera and Code Team Up to Make Impossible Hovering Laser Effect — Hackaday

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/tozuzV5YZ7U?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Right off the bat, we’ll say that this video showing a laser beam stopping in mid-air is nothing but a camera trick. But it’s the trick that’s the hack, and you’ve got to admit that it looks really cool. It starts with the [Tom Scott]…

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Sci-Fi Movies Before Celluloid — William Friese-Greene & Me

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWbItgewRYs?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Years before H.G. Wells introduced us to his time traveller and marauding Martians, another writer was predicting what science might bring us in the future, for good or for ill. Once read on both sides of the Atlantic, he’s now all but forgotten. His name…

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