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OCZ's Brain Mouse Hits the Store
John Roller writes "Three months to the day since Slashdot originally received word that OCZ's "brain-mouse" — the Neural Impulse Actuator was ready for shipping, the first in-depth review of the device containing pictures of the retail packaging along with several videos have arrived on the internet.
Overclock3D.Net got the first look at the device, and although it's still early days, they managed to play a game of "Pong" using only brain power.
The article is only part one in a month-long log of using the device, but it's extremely interesting to see what the people who have pre-ordered the device can expect from it when it arrives on their doorsteps shortly."
I am all for freedom from keyboard hunch
They're Pinky and the Brain, yes Pinky and the Brain;
One is a genius, the other's insane;
Two laboratory mice, their genes have been spliced;
Before each night is done their plan will be unfurled;
By the dawning of the sun they'll take over the world;
Their twilight campaign is easy to explain;
To prove their mousy worth, they'll take over the earth;
They're Pinky, They're Pinky and the Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Narf.
This thing has been done before. Only problem is, you have to think in Russian. Once you manage that, it's no problem to hit the store.
Lock the wife and the dog in the boot of the car.
Return one hour later.
Who's happy to see you?
In other words.... "Free your mind."
Well, it looked like it was behaving, but no sooner had I left my seat that it had leaped in
Some hardware you just can't trust.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
It's surely a bad analogy but I see resemblance between bugs in democracy (politicians avoid dealing with looming problems [budget deficit,etc] to achieve short-term goals [reeelction]) and bugs in the human psyche (if it feels good, do it again.. and again.. and again.. even if long-term consequences are massively negative).
Well the fundamental problem is that those consequences are in the future, and the future is by its very nature hypothetical, and any future consequences are also thus hypothetical, and thus also possibly non-existent. It's a hedge of the immediate known reward vs a future potential but perhaps not guaranteed cost.
Besides, sometimes the gamble pays off. After all, here I am over a decade into adulthood, and I have yet to sprout so much as a single hair follicle on my palm. So in at least that case, my psyche's "if it feels good, do it again and again" impulse didn't steer me wrong!
The enemies of Democracy are
Microsoft might have a comment on that...
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all