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A mechanical computer for directing antiaircraft fire was at the heart of these brothers' pioneering computer-animated imagery.

Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest would have looked a whooooole lot different if Roger Thornhill had used the Force. Cary Grant just went up a few notches in the Gearfuse book of cool. Link [via]

When I think of famous side profiles the first person I think about is Alfred Hitchcock. A team of scientists at the University of California at San Francisco “injected light-sensing and communication genes from various bacterial species into Escherichia coli.” That’s right, the poopy virus. The scientists then projected an image of Hitchcock onto a plate of bacteria, leaving an ...