Author archives: Dimitris

Lets assume that we all know the fact that a video is actually many pictures displayed one after the other at a certain speed and frequency.
It is also a fact that the human eye and brain, can process up to 10 to 12 images per second. Although, adding more frames per second (FPS) to ...

Well, we all know what an earthquake is, and pretty much how it occurs.
Everyone who has experienced a scary earthquake, wonders if we ever find a way to predict them. Geologists have some theories, but unfortunately, none of them really delivers what is needed. And what is needed is an accurate prediction of earthquakes ...

Surprisingly, the most exciting part of a Moto GP for an amateur watcher, is neither the high speed nor the “spectacular” crashes. It’s the incredible lean angles the riders reach at every corner, in order to get through it as fast as possible.
Over the years, the tire companies improved their technology so much ...

Back in the 60’s everything was about space travel.
NASA needed to find a way to lower the cost of manned space exhibitions. They figured that they should try to make a maneuverable space craft, so the astronauts can land it wherever they desire. This would cut the costs of the “rescue team” which ...

The collapse of Malpasset Dam, is considered to be one of the worst civil engineering disasters of the 20th century.
It was an arch dam on the French Riviera, which collapsed on 1959. The breach created a massive wall of water, (40 meters high, moving with 70km/h) destroying two small villages, Malpasset and Bozon ...

Pixel density is the number of pixels a display can fit into a fixed distance. This is different from “resolution”, which is a simple count of the number of pixels across the entire width and height of a device.
For example, the resolution of a Galaxy S6, is 1440 × 2560 pixels. All of these pixels ...

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The most Quoted formula of all time.
The Darth Vader of equations.
No it’s not a big, bad lightsaber wielder.
Just as Darth Vader, with his black mask and the strange voice, is the archetypal bad guy in popular culture, so this equation is the archetypal ...

Lately, there is a hype about two guys flying above Dubai. An eleven minute epic video is all over the internet, showing their flight skills. Oh wait! Did you think they fly airplanes? No no! They are using Jetpacks. Yes! Jetpacks. Boba Fett like Jetpacks!

The video has plenty of beautiful HD footage shot from ...

There is a popular story that Newton was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation.
More likely, Newton was sitting in a library, and a tome containing Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion fell on his desk, spilled his coffee ...

Weight transfer is the change in load borne by different wheels of even perfectly rigid vehicles during acceleration, and the change in center of mass location relative to the wheels because of suspension compliance or cargo shifting or sloshing. In the automobile industry, weight transfer customarily refers to the change in load borne by different ...