Link here We have one thing to say for this video: Wow. Can't wait until this starts appearing in games!

Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.

Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.

She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.

Here's a nifty guide on how to set up your own home server! If you have a computer sitting around idle, then you definitely should read this and set one up. After you have yours set up with this guide, here are some things you can do with it. (Got any to add? Post it in the comments below!) 

• Install Apache

• Set up IMAP Mail

• Set up Dynamic DNS

• Set up a DNS name server

• Stop spam on your mail server

If you already have one set up and would like to help with a future Household Hacker episode on what to do with servers, shoot us an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with some quick tips or something people should know about what they can be useful for!

Link to article. Here's a couple of clever inventions (for their age) that never quite took off. You can see the inspiration for some modern inventions we now use today (and some that are just completely useless). Our favorite piece is the one that looks like someone printed out Google Maps directions and crammed it into a watch.

We just watched this video demonstration and must say we're very impressed by the technology here, and the fact that anyone can use it. The way this system works is that you capture a video recording of a scene and then take still photographs of the area as well and the software automatically fills in the photographs over spots in the video in 3d to create amazing quality recordings not possible with consumer camcorders! 

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