Quadrotor – Flying Through a Window Near You

Check out these two videos – the first shows the amazing manoeuvres of the Quadrotor and the second shows how it can use Kinect to ‘see’ its environment. It can’t be much longer until these are used for military purposes and surveillance.

Visualising Letter Based Social Networks

This video shows how researchers at Stanford University mapped letters of famous figures in the 18th century – visualising their spheres of influence. This visualisation can show connections that would otherwise take ages to study.