RED's new 8K Weapon and Epic-W cameras with the new "Helium" sensors are now shipping, giving cinematographers up to 35-megapixel RAW images at 60 frames per second. The $49,500 and $29,500 cinema cameras (respectively) aren't exactly consumer produc...
RED has revealed a new sensor called the "Helium" for its ultra-high megapixel 8K Weapon cinema camera. The chip will be 29.9mm wide (slightly bigger than Super-35), considerably smaller than the company's 40mm VistaVision sized 8K Dragon sensor. It...
Festo is known for drones modeled on animals, like the Seagull-inspired SmartBird and 3D-printed BionicANTs. We're not sure what animal the "FreeMotionHandling" sphere is supposed to be -- some kind of flying jellyfish, maybe? Regardless, it's one of...
Morgan Freeman has been acting in films and voiceovers for decades now, and is well known for his booming and impressive voice. Science geeks probably know him for the series he narrates called Through the Wormhole on the Science Channel. The series is rather like Cosmos.
The show is running an episode in the coming weeks that is looking at planets where things would be different than Earth. From the sound of things physicists are studying gravitational forces under the influence of helium. So naturally, we get to hear Morgan Freeman after he inhales some helium from a balloon.
He still sounds cooler than most people, even on helium. Next, I’d like to hear Samuel L. Jackson or James Earl Jones on helium.
[via Laughing Squid]
