Understanding implicit in Scala

I was making my way through the Scala playframework tutorial and I came across this snippet of code which had me puzzled: def newTask = Action { implicit request => taskForm.bindFromRequest.fold( errors => BadRequest(views.html.index(Task.all(), errors)), label => { Task.create(label) Redirect(routes.Application.tasks()) } ) } So I decided to investigate and came across this post. I still don't ge