It's your standard issue keyboard for alien spaceships. That way if some pesky earthling manages to get to your ship's bridge and tries to make a getaway, shut off the self-destruct, keep the ship from heading straight into a nearby star, etc., he'll wind up looking that much more stupid trying to figure everything out.
"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me. I mean, when you try and operate one of these weird black controls which are labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to tell you you've done it. What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyper-hearse?" - Zaphod Beeblebrox
If it can recognize my "Stupid TiVo!" face when TiVo starts playing back one minute after (or before) I press the play button when rewinding (or fast-forwarding), well, we've got a winner here. Or at least recognize what I mean when I'm screaming "Not there! THERE! Ya piece of junk!"
How about some type of deposit/buyback/recycling program, to get the hangers back from the customers? Push it as a "green" program to the customers and it'll help assuage their guilt for using dry cleaning in the first place.
According to the web site this isn't honest-to-goodness holography, but works on similar principles.
HoloVizio is not a purely holographic system that handles an enormous amount of redundant information. It is rather based on holographic geometrical principles with special focus on reconstructing the key elements of spatial vision. The pixels, or rather voxels of the holographic screen emit light beams of different intensity and colour to the various directions. A light-emitting surface composed of these voxels will act as a digital window or hologram and will be able to show 3D scenes undoubtedly being 3D.
So, yeah, it is interesting, but still a lot of unanswered questions.
I used to have the 150-n-1 kit. Loads of fun! As I recall they maxed out at 200-n-1 kits.
You know you're getting somewhere when you start taking it apart for parts.
Back in the early 80s there was major buzz about using computers to restore movement to people paralyzed by spinal injuries. In a nutshell, a computer would send properly sequenced jolts to the person's leg muscles, enabling them to walk. In tests this more or less worked. The electronics at the time were too big to make it practical but the hope was that in the future (now) computers would be portable and powerful enough to do the job. I recall a number of hopeful reports on "60 Minutes" regarding this research, and even a TV movie about the researcher leading the effort. But all this seems to have fallen off the radar.
Anyone have the straight dope on this research? Because if it does work it stands to reason that if a person could control an artificial limb with their thoughts controlling real limbs would also be possible.
What sort of deal do they get, after they've gone through motion capture, etc? Admittedly it's an apples-n-oranges comparison (the athletes are in the video game as themselves, for example) but it'd be a helpful benchmark.
The fact that this hasn't happened already probably means that the FBI relates some very scary-ass consequences to such an action - suspected bad guys get away & destroy America, you and everybody you know get harassed by the feds to the end of time, ass-pounding jail, and so on. Saying "yer bluffin!" would take a little more than moxie. Who wants to be first to step into the mine field?
You don't know the little hell of having a desk right up against the heating/cooling vents. Gives you another place for your folders, photos, plants, action figures, etc. but you'll either be too cold or too warm. All the time.
If we were all standing around at a party this'd be more like -
You: Hey, everybody, did you know BASIC stands for..
Everybody (mocking monotone): Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
OK, OK, but did you know FORTRAN stands.. FORmula TRANsaltor.
COB.. COmmon Business Oriented Language.
OK, but what about C? Betcha you don't know what C stand for do ya? HAH! Do you?
Uh, sure I know what it stands for! You kidding? It stands for - oops, my ride's here! Gotta go!
Slashdot Mirror
Protect the queen!
MTV was cool when it was putting on stuff like this. (Quicktime)
Stevie Washington, the angry youth!
Born to die!
New York's New York
The turn of the century
All crime!
It's your standard issue keyboard for alien spaceships. That way if some pesky earthling manages to get to your ship's bridge and tries to make a getaway, shut off the self-destruct, keep the ship from heading straight into a nearby star, etc., he'll wind up looking that much more stupid trying to figure everything out.
"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me. I mean, when you try and operate one of these weird black controls which are labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to tell you you've done it. What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyper-hearse?" - Zaphod Beeblebrox
Seven hundred years go by, the lonely little satellite still searching fruitlessly for killer asteroids. Then one day, he meets a girl space probe..
If it can recognize my "Stupid TiVo!" face when TiVo starts playing back one minute after (or before) I press the play button when rewinding (or fast-forwarding), well, we've got a winner here. Or at least recognize what I mean when I'm screaming "Not there! THERE! Ya piece of junk!"
How about some type of deposit/buyback/recycling program, to get the hangers back from the customers? Push it as a "green" program to the customers and it'll help assuage their guilt for using dry cleaning in the first place.
check water level
add broccoli and carrots
else replace hamster
but it must be true
I read it in engadget
trustworthy news source!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/genepax-shows-off-water-powered-fuel-cell-vehicle/
Someone claiming authority approaches the corporation, ask for all of their data; the corporation responds "Sure! Would you like a bag for that? Paper or plastic?"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/08/1222239
According to the web site this isn't honest-to-goodness holography, but works on similar principles.
HoloVizio is not a purely holographic system that handles an enormous amount of redundant information. It is rather based on holographic geometrical principles with special focus on reconstructing the key elements of spatial vision. The pixels, or rather voxels of the holographic screen emit light beams of different intensity and colour to the various directions. A light-emitting surface composed of these voxels will act as a digital window or hologram and will be able to show 3D scenes undoubtedly being 3D.
So, yeah, it is interesting, but still a lot of unanswered questions.
I keep getting "Error: Operation timed out" when I try to run a search.
Radio Shack still has one
I used to have the 150-n-1 kit. Loads of fun! As I recall they maxed out at 200-n-1 kits.
You know you're getting somewhere when you start taking it apart for parts.
Back in the early 80s there was major buzz about using computers to restore movement to people paralyzed by spinal injuries. In a nutshell, a computer would send properly sequenced jolts to the person's leg muscles, enabling them to walk. In tests this more or less worked. The electronics at the time were too big to make it practical but the hope was that in the future (now) computers would be portable and powerful enough to do the job. I recall a number of hopeful reports on "60 Minutes" regarding this research, and even a TV movie about the researcher leading the effort. But all this seems to have fallen off the radar.
Anyone have the straight dope on this research? Because if it does work it stands to reason that if a person could control an artificial limb with their thoughts controlling real limbs would also be possible.
What sort of deal do they get, after they've gone through motion capture, etc? Admittedly it's an apples-n-oranges comparison (the athletes are in the video game as themselves, for example) but it'd be a helpful benchmark.
Carl Sagan got dibs way before both y'all.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345331354/ref=sib_dp_pt#
(search "neutrino", click Page 260)
And Ann Druyan will you sue for billions and billions of dollars.
The fact that this hasn't happened already probably means that the FBI relates some very scary-ass consequences to such an action - suspected bad guys get away & destroy America, you and everybody you know get harassed by the feds to the end of time, ass-pounding jail, and so on. Saying "yer bluffin!" would take a little more than moxie. Who wants to be first to step into the mine field?
where I'll have a dual-boot phone?
Not really. They both stand for "New Technology", although for the airship that's "Neue Technologie" and for Windows it's a bit of a bacronym.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Wikipedia - Now everyone can be Cliff Clavin!
It's the DVD projector that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
doesn't mean you'll be seeing them.
Work on Google Labs? - Yep.
Work on Google Accounts Payable? - Not so much.
You don't know the little hell of having a desk right up against the heating/cooling vents. Gives you another place for your folders, photos, plants, action figures, etc. but you'll either be too cold or too warm. All the time.
working for Monsanto instead.
If we were all standing around at a party this'd be more like -
You: Hey, everybody, did you know BASIC stands for..
Everybody (mocking monotone): Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
OK, OK, but did you know FORTRAN stands..
FORmula TRANsaltor.
COB..
COmmon Business Oriented Language.
OK, but what about C? Betcha you don't know what C stand for do ya? HAH!
Do you?
Uh, sure I know what it stands for! You kidding? It stands for - oops, my ride's here! Gotta go!
From an old PC/Computing column - add the following batch file to your startup (Windows only):
:-)
@echo off
cls
echo READY
echo ARMING....
echo ARMED
echo DETONATION IN 0:30
pause
Actually he said NOT to do this, as it'd be crazy illegal to do so. Doesn't mean you can't think about doing it though
Exo-Squad! The time has come!