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Can you masturbate with a phantom limb?

Dunno, but apparently some girls can do some pretty interesting things with one.

Note that the image is very badly distorted towards the edges. To correct this, the image must be generated as a "fisheye" type image, with the proper FOV, which will entail altering the way the image is rendered--i.e. code access required. Note also significant luminance fall-off towards the edges--the light is striking the dome at such an oblique angle that it's failing to light it properly. Immersive gaming is pretty damn cool, and perhaps this unit will work well enough to catch on with some gamers. But what you REALLY need is one of these: http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20040724-elumens_visionstation.php

The RIAA is over. Apple makes it easy for people to spend their money on music but the RIAA way is not the future. Sales are only a small piece of the picture. More and more, reputations are not going to be built on radio play but on web play. Bands that understand this are going to be here tomorrow and the rest are going to look like slaves to greedy pigs. Portable music devices can hold more songs than the average radio station can afford to broadcast. To the user, it's all killer and no annoying adverts. The "Industry" is fighting back with satellite radio and FM crap flooding but it's not good enough. Players like Apple are going to help transition the industry to it's less centralized and less parasitic future. The free market forces and free software will move in and make life better for everyone, especially the artists.

So go ahead and string up those power supplies. Just make sure you don't put them on your tree as it might catch fire.

Blah, you call those costumes? This is a costume!

The PSP has a built in flash memory slot which can be used for many things, among them storage of movie and music files for PSP's built in mp3 and video player..

There's already a program which can convert your standard 700MB 1 CD MPEG 4 (dvix/xvid/what have you) full DVD ripped movie to the PSP compliant standard, given that you can get your hands on a compatible 1GB memory stick.

That alone is enough to convince me, but it's not like it stops there... there have already been several slashdot stories covering recent hacks, and one gets the impression that they've only just begun to unlock what the PSP is capable of.

> it generated $250,000 worth of sales in its first month

Wow, I must have contributed to some of that.

Delicious Library is cool, if a little bit slow. But it's still new, so that's not surprising. The attention to detail is really amazing. When you add artwork to a catalog item, the application adds a screen to the item image to make it look like it's in a DVD case, or the cover of a book. If you say it's a hard cover or soft cover book, the size of the book changes, too. I wrote a nearly pointless review of it for Gadget Madness.

Scanning in your books, DVDs, games, or whatever into the system is actually a kind of fun. It's one of those Mac OS X applications that when you show someone who doesn't have a Mac, they get that comically jealous look on their face.

I think they should have at least mentioned the Japanese release of the 25th Anniversary Aliens Quadrilogy, which came in a giant plastic alien head. Talk about packaging!

Here's my blog entry from way back.