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  1. Medical devices by Hao+Wu · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre

    Are they going to ban retinal implants for the blind?

    Eventually they might produce quality vision that can be recorded (and of course redistributed):

    The system comprises on an implant, ... a pair of spectacles that contain a camera and a transmitter, and a wearable computer worn at the patient's waist that processes the input from the camera to replace the information processing function of the formall healthy retina.

  2. Re:I thought sigularity was right around the corne by _KiTA_ · · Score: 2, Informative · on Whatever Happened To AI?

    Right?

    Who says the Singularity is reliant on ARTIFICIAL Intelligence?

    AUGMENTED Intelligence is actually within our grasp: for example, look at the number of people who know how to Google / Wiki any information they don't know to get caught up with whatever subject is at hand? "Well, Damn, don't know much about RAID, better Wiki it... oh, I get it!"

    How long until we figure out how to make pills to make people think faster, or remember better?

    How long until we get PDAs in the form of sunglasses that will allow you to automatically get the definition of words as you hear / read them?

    Or Contact Lense-displays that connect to a PDA that you control using your brain?

    The Singularity is not going to be an all at once WHAMMO thing, we're not going to wake up with benevolent robotic overlords announcing that the Rapture of the Geeks is at hand. It will be gradual, and those of us on the techy side will likely not even notice it.

    Computers will get faster, and as we learn how to augment ourselves, we will to. Eventually we'll be able to communicate with a PC/PDA directly. Meanwhile, things like RepRap will change our world in ways we're not quite ready for. (For example, I have no dobut that a functional RepRap would be a beautiful, amazing thing in the hands of Slashdot or the OSS Community. At the same time, the idea of 4Chan getting ahold of one fills me with Dread.)

  3. Cybersex Love by boschmorden · · Score: 1 · on Wearable Customizable Displays

    Perhaps more interesting than the article itself, was a previous story on the site where this was found on robot sex!!! Here

  4. hahaha! by manavendra · · Score: 1 · on Wearable Customizable Displays

    Not sure if anyone noticed it, but the first comment on article's comments section at http://igargoyle.com/archives/000440.html is:

    You've been Slashdotted, brace yourself and/or redirect!

    mods be gentle please! :-)

  5. Free US Geocoder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Open Maps?

    geocoder.us

    -Tom
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