Daily Archives: 2022-05-21

Movies

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Pembrokeshire exhibition to open

See the pictures and video  here. —cpl

It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy and capable of completing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

What is less well known about the Millennium Falcon is it truly was the last ship to be built at the Royal Pembroke Dockyard.

The life-size model was built in Pembroke Dock in 1979 before being shipped to movie studios

Now an exhibition will tell the story of how Han Solo’s beloved spaceship was built in an aircraft hangar in the Pembrokeshire town in spring 1979.

It will tell the story with photographs, film, models and costumes.

The project was so secret it was codenamed The Magic Roundabout, but eventually word of the “UFO” being built in the western hangar got out.

A BBC Wales crew even paid a visit to the team at Marcon Fabrications who were tasked with building the gigantic intergalactic cruiser.

The engineers normally worked for petrochemical and oil companies.

It took three months to build before being transported to Elstree Studios for production of the Oscar-winning The Empire Strikes Back.

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Science and technology

The Future is Now: Smart Contact Lenses

I’ve read so many SF stories in which people accessed the Internet (or whatever it was called in the future) via an implant or contact lens. Information floated in front of their eyes.  It looks like this is no longer Science Fiction! –CPL

From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61318460

Could contact lenses be the ultimate computer screen?

By Emma Woollacott
Technology of Business reporter

Published
Mojo lensMOjo

Smart contact lenses promise to bring data directly into your field of view

Imagine you have to make a speech, but instead of looking down at your notes, the words scroll in front of your eyes, whichever direction you look in.

That’s just one of many features the makers of smart contact lenses promise will be available in the future.

“Imagine… you’re a musician with your lyrics, or your chords, in front of your eyes. Or you’re an athlete and you have your biometrics and your distance and other information that you need,” says Steve Sinclair, from Mojo, which is developing smart contact lenses.

His company is about to embark on comprehensive testing of smart contact lens on humans, that will give the wearer a heads-up display that appears to float in front of their eyes.

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