Engineering students invent virtual fitting room for online shoppers
Rice University engineering students Cecilia Zhang, left, and Lam Yuk Wong, have created a virtual fitting room for online shoppers. Their program, which uses Microsoft’s Kinect motion-capture device, turns users into virtual mannequins to make online garment fitting more accurate.
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-students-virtual-room-online-shoppers.html#jCp
First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed: It may have liquid water
The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. The initial discovery, made by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, is one of a handful of smaller planets found by Kepler and verified using large ground-based telescopes. It also confirms that Earth-sized planets do exist in the habitable zone of other stars.
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-potentially-habitable-earth-sized-planet-liquid.html#jCp
