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youtube.com - 11/25/2008

Chicken Head Tracking (video)

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Chickens have a great ability to keep their heads stable. Our bodies use a gyro-like mechanism in our ears which has 3 mutually orthogonal inertial measurem...

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gizmodo.com - 11/26/2008

Hackmodo: Use a Chicken's Head as a Camera Stabilizer [Chicken Stabilization]

— gizmodo.com — Don't have an anti-shake camera stabilizer in your camera? Have a chicken handy? Great! Just strap your... cam to its head and watch as nature's image stabilization service does all the work work. According to the video, motion processors use an ... (more) Hackmodo: Use a Chicken's Head as a Camera Stabilizer ...

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Hackmodo: Use a Chicken's Head as a Camera Stabilizer [Chicken Stabilization]
Gizmodo — Don't have an anti-shake camera stabilizer in your camera? Have a chicken handy? Great! Just strap your cam to its head and watch as nature's image stabilization service does all the work work. According to the video, motion processors use an inertial measurement unit, which senses motion (rate, type and direction) and compensates for it. Chickens have a pretty advanced version. There you go: easy image stabilization. [Thanks Graham!] ...

A chicken head makes an excellent camera stabilizer
Boing Boing Gadgets — A simple fix for a lack of a camera stabilizer: attach it to the self-stabilizing noggin of a chicken skull. It does not, of course, work if the noggin is no longer attached to the chicken. With his backyard chicken coop, our happy mutant overlord Mr. Frauenfelder should be able to do something fun with this for MAKE, you'd think. [via Gizmodo]

Video Friday: SteadiChicken
OhGizmo! — By Evan Ackerman In order to get smooth and stable video, the pros use several thousand dollar Steadicams. After watching this video, I think a chicken might be more effective. While Steadicams rely on high inertial mass to keep them from jiggling around, the chicken possesses superior technology in the form of a gyroscope (probably its inner ear) and compensating motors (the muscles in its neck). It’s able to instantaneously compensate for any movements of its body to keep its head just about perfectly stable. So all you really need to vastly improve your spastic ...

Chickens like to keep their head in the same place
Boing Boing — If you hold a chicken and move it around, it'll keep its head in the same place, as if it is bolted to the spot. The good stuff happens about 35 seconds into the video. (via Laughing Squid)