If you have missed it: LYYN has a channel on YouTube, called lyynified: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lyynified

We recently published our 60th clip from the project "Havsresan 2009".

The department of Engineering Geology at Lund university has initiated the "Havsresan 2009" project, where the Swedish Maritime Administration, the Swedish Coast Guard, the Swedish geological survey, and several other agencies and businesses such as e.g. Lyyn and Marin Miljöanalys work together in a multidisciplinary project. The 2009 activities is part of a larger project that has been active since 1989. The overall goal is to increase the awareness of the values that the Sea represents; economical, cultural as well as ecological. Another objective is to collect new data for research and increase contacts between stakeholders. For more information (in Swedish) please visit www.havsresan.se

The Norwegian School of Commercial Diving (NYD) is one of the world’s most renowned professional diving schools. Every year 150 students from all over the world becomes certified commercial divers for the inshore and offshore industries in accordance with the highest international standards.

At a resent course LYYN presented lyynification and the school immediately bought a LYYN T38. Not only do they use it to get a better image when monitoring their students, they have also decided to make it an integral part of their training program.

This is strong evidence for the subsea application of LYYN technology, not only for ROVs but for all subsea video, including diving operations using helmet-mounted cameras.

Take a look for yourself! Check out these clips from the tests at NYD on YouTube

It might be clichéd to say that religious people see the world differently, but new research finds that Dutch Calvinists notice embedded visual patterns quicker than their atheist compatriots.

Culture has long been known to distort visual perception, says Bernhard Hommel, a psychologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands who led the new study. For example, one previous experiment found that Asians tend to dart their eyes around a photograph, while North Americans fix on specific people.

To see if religious differences might skew perception, Hommel's team tested 40 Dutch atheist and Calvinist university students, who, religion aside, had similar cultural backgrounds.

Read the full story in New Scientist