Charlemagne. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Google X. Turn a Raspberry Pi Into an XBMC Media Center in Under 30 Minutes. How To Extract Sheet Music From YouTube Videos ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ Code + Community. Picking out the different parts of a song after it’s been recorded is like naming every ingredient of a cooked dessert: It's difficult. With its new algorithmic approach, Chordify is the latest to attempt the dissection.
The service not only displays sheet music for locally uploaded songs, but for a wide selection of streaming music found online. Unlike other reverse engineering solutions, Chordify makes it as simple as pasting in a link from Deezer, SoundCloud, or YouTube, turning them into sheet music you can play along with. The web service also uses the algorithmic approach based on cofounder and computer music researcher Bas De Haas’s PhD dissertation from Utrecht University. Instead of picking out every note in a piece of music, which is very difficult, Chordify looks at the big picture of songs. It’s obviously pretty complex under the hood, but boiled down, the service uses the VAMP plug-in to filter the audio and separate it into different parts.
[Image: Flickr user Dana] A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World. Loon for All – Project Loon – Google. The 10 Smartest Cities In Europe | Co.Exist | World changing ideas and innovation. When it comes to smart cities, Europe is the model for the rest of the world to learn from. European cities tend to be denser, have better public transit, larger commitment to cycling and walking, a stronger focus on sustainability and low-carbon solutions, and perhaps most important, a culture and citizenry more engaged in the journey towards more sustainable and smarter cities.
Of course this is a generalization: this series of regional ranking reports has demonstrated leadership from cities across the globe. But, as I wrote in our rankings of North America's smartest cities, our urban centers "demand 21st-century solutions to accommodate their growing populations in ways that not only maintain the quality of life, but also improve it. In short, smart cities are innovative cities. " Without further ado, here is the top 10 smart cities for Europe in 2013 (and here's more about how we ranked them). 1: Copenhagen 2: Amsterdam Like Copenhagen the cycling rates here are off the charts. 5: Paris. TOP 10 IMPOSSIBLE INVENTIONS THAT WORK « Revolutionizing Awareness. Searl Effects Generator by Jeane Manning When Leonardo da Vinci sketched out an impossible invention, fifteenth-century scholars probably put him down.
Forget it, Leon. Throughout history, experts tell innovators that their inventions are impossible. Perhaps in the 21st century the following inventions will be standard science, and a history student may wonder why 20th-century pundits disregarded them. This class of inventions could wipe out oil crises and help solve environmental problems. Forget the Rube Goldberg mechanical perpetual motion contraptions; they had to stop eventually. Inventors give various names to their space-energy converters. A spiritual commune in Switzerland had a tabletop free energy device running in greenhouses for years, but members feared that outsiders would turn the technology into weaponry.
It may have been done before Tesla’s time. The garage inventors come from many backgrounds. One example is U.S. In 1923 Townsend T. 8. A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors-Crazy must watch. RAND_RR478. Amazon Unveils Flying Delivery Drones on '60 Minutes' Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is known for making big bets in the world of innovation, and on Sunday night on 60 Minutes he revealed what might be one of his biggest: product delivery by flying robot drones. The service is called Amazon Prime Air and it's slated for rollout sometime in 2015, depending on FAA approval. A video of how the service will work has already been posted to YouTube, showing the process of the package being taken from the warehouse floor and on to the front steps of the customer’s home.
The idea is to have the drone deliver orders roughly 30 minutes after the customer hits the “buy” button on Amazon.com. Bezos was so excited about the news that he kept the details under wraps until just before the interview with the network began. According to the producers of 60 Minutes, before the unveiling, Bezos said, “If you can guess what it is, then... I will give you half my fortune and send you to Vegas with it.” BONUS: Drones vs. Have something to add to this story?