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An excellent 20 minutes short film exploring a future of multiple realities. What if you could no longer tell which reality was real?
If you liked Avatar, Total Recall, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, Surrogates, or Strange Days, this is well worth a watch.
A power station for every home? (via @deanupton)
Here’s one of those stories that seems almost too good to be true. A clean, self-contained fuel-cell power station, that could power your home. If this really works (and contracts with eBay, Google and FedEx suggest it does), this could revolutionize the energy economy. Very exciting.
Green screens aren’t just used in special effects movies
It’s surprising how much green screen technology is used in the movies. I hadn’t realised quite how much until I saw this video.
How to harness user power
Having discovered that Google Chrome now supports extensions (Hurrah!), I had a go at installing the rather excellent Cool Iris image previewing plugin, and was greeted with this screen, which basically advises anyone wanting to use the plugin on Chrome that they can’t implement it until Google add additional functionality.