Boeing's CST-100 to shoot non-NASA astronauts into space by 2015

Day job just too darn terrestrial? Maybe you should score a gig at Boeing, which'll apparently sling two of its very own into space come 2015. What'll be their chariot? The company's CST-100 -- you know that spiffy capsule that can hurtle a lucky seven humans 100km into the dark abyss. Strapped to ULA's Atlas V, the crew will follow two unmanned missions, eventually reaching the International Space Station. If that all goes to plan, commercial service will start in 2016. Now about those extra five seats...

"Sword Dance" ,Japanese Advanced visual effect technologies

The most awesome thing you will see today is the following video shown below. Believe me. The picture above does not do the video any justice.

Called, “Sword Dance and Shadowgraph,” this live interactive and computer generated imagery performance was recently filmed in Tokyo Japan, at the The Galaxy Theater in January and was performed by Taichi Saotome.

It involves a live actor on stage armed with a Katana who is defending himself many animated shadow adversaries on the screen located behind him. The result of the fight choreography matched with the CGI presentation on the projected screen is something pretty spectacular and definitely a cool treat for the eyes to witness.