Some fun links about cool technology in graphics, robotics and related areas

• SIGGRAPH 2011 Technical Papers Video Preview;
  SIGGRAPH 2010: Technical Papers Trailer;
  SIGGRAPH 2009 Technical Papers Video Preview;
  SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: Technical Papers Trailer;
  SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Technical Papers Trailer;
  SIGGRAPH Asia 2009: Technical Papers Preview Trailer;
  lots of very cool graphics advances highlighted here!
• Image resize:
  “magically” reshape images without stretching!
• Adding Objects Into Photos:
  Hey, that thing in the picture isn’t really there!
• Photoshop Deblurring:
  new technology to remove blur from photos!
• The Lytro camera;
  The Lytro Light Field Camera:
  focus your pictures after you take them!
• Touchable Holography:
  see objects in 3D, move them around and feel them react;hello Holodeck!
• Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008):
  walking robots from way back in 2008!
• Construction with Quadrotor Teams:
  building structures using cooperative helicopter robots!
• Interaction with a Quadrotor via the Kinect:
  control a helicopter using just your hands!
• Virtual reality maps:
  re-create 3-dimensional scenes from photos grabbed off the web!
• High-Speed Robot Hand:
  a robot hand that dribbles (at superspeed), catches a cell phone and flips a pencil between its fingers!