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Firing up the Oscar fever the Academy will be presenting each Best Actress nominee in the upcoming 78th Academy Awards a 'Ultimate Luxury Suite at The Four Seasons Hotel' which also includes the pictured Kodak dual-lens Easyshare V570 digital camera...

The 2006 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards or the tech Oscars were presented to 17 innovators who've literally changed the way we see movies at the Beverly Hilton. Here I would like to highlight a few of them with their innovations. First meet...

Demetri Terzopoulos and John Platt jointly received the Academy Award for their revolutionary computer-generated techniques to simulate cloth in motion pictures. Though they gave final touches to their research 20 years back the impeccable technique is...

Garrett Brown was honored with this year's tech Oscar for Skycam, a flying camera system. Brown was also behind the much acclaimed Steadicam, a camera-stabilizing device, used in Rocky. Read

David Grober's received the Academy Award for the Perfect Horizon System that captures fast moving pictures easily; fast moving cars, fast moving boats. The 'invisible and flawless' technique, as David Grober calls it, was used in the movie 'Step...