'Never seen before' Fraunhofer wireless breakthrough... seen before
Pity Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute. The research organisation best known for devising the MP3 music format seems to be running short of projects to puff. This week it published an item of “research news” about the work of Fraunhofer boffin Frank Deicke, who is employed at Fraunhofer’s photonics lab in Dresden. Herr Deicke is …
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Re: Sooo
My guess is that the new release is 1G/s over a standard protocol, where the last one was straight ones and zeros. There is usually some qualifying statement
Nice pun though!
I'd love to know where that light is coming from, as it is illuminating his face (and he's facing down) as well as illuminating the "device" he is working on.
I think from now on, everytime the word "device" is mentioned regarding Fraunhofer, we should put inverted commas around it ;)
"device"
The US of A have MIT and JPL
Germany has Max-Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes
UK has ... wait ...
Napoleon Dynamite
Is that Napoleon Dynamite narrating the video clip?
*never seen before
I see no problem here.
*as defined by Apple
... never seen before
Hey it completely worked for me. I had never before seen the device. That photo is good for another dozen press releases before everybody will have seen it.
Go easy on poor Deicke, he has a tough job holding still for 8 month. Thats another feat I have never seen before!
Wireless at carefully positioned 2cm gap?
Wireless at carefully positioned 2cm gap? Is that really cutting edge wireless?
A laser instead of an LED, well it sounds cool, but I don't want to have to aim very carefully for a wireless connection to work.
I would like to take this opportunity...
to apologize for the Fraunhofer institute. I know it makes us Germans look like a laughing stock. From the me-too MP3 codec to this hilariously bad idea.
The light in the photo.
There are 2 light sources being used to achieve that look in the photo - there is a tightly gridded light from up high camera right, pointing down at the device. It's clipping the side of his face and casting the shadow you can see under his chin.
There's another gridded light from low camera left pointing just at his face. It's casting the shadow you can see behind his ear. A grid on a light is modifier used to give you a very tight beam of light with a soft(ish) falloff at the edges and no spill light.
I'd guess they're both small flashes (speedlights) with strong orange gels (2xCTO?) and the camera is set to a tungsten white balance which makes the daylight coming in appear blue.
</photonerd>
I blame apple
They're always announcing the "latest thing" which is tech that is more usually 2 or more yrs old but with a pretty GUI attached.
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