London, Nov 3 : Researchers suggest that an effect used since the early days of cinema to make the action appear smoother can actually help in improving our perception of jerky videos sent to cellphones.
Earlier, fast music helped to create an illusion of motion in movies that could make the action appear smoother.
The research team led by Salvador Soto Faraco at the University of Barcelona, Spain recruited 15 people and showed them films of flashing discs of light that increased or decreased in size.
When the discs flashed rapidly, they appeared to move forwards or recede.
At lower flash rates, they only appeared to move when accompanied with beeps that increased or decreased in volume, reports New Scientist magazine.
Los Angeles - Online media site MySpace is offering the owners of copyright material the chance to cash in on its online popularity.
San Francisco - Worldwide threats from malicious software that cripple computers with spy programs, viruses and worms have increased 43 per cent over the past year, Microsoft said Monday in its Security Intelligence Report.
Melbourne, Nov 3 : The cheapest place in the world to buy an Apple iPod is Australia, owing to the dramatic fall in the country’s dollar in the last several months, says a new study.
London, Nov 3 : A novel imaging programme for facial surgery called DI3D system, which could produce life-like 3-D images on a computer from photographs, has been chosen for a top innovation award.
