I have one (the Gravity) I picked up from Target that came with a small USB 2.0 Hub and a mini optical mouse. Since I DJ with my laptop, I picked this up thinking it would work out pretty well. It did. I carry the laptop, a FireWire drive, a Stanton DJ mixer, two USB audio output devices, a pair of headphones, and all assorted cables and power supplies and I still have enough room for a notebook, pens, pencils, duct tape, tooth brush, condoms, and clean socks.
I've always been partial to Canon GL-2 and the XL-1S. Both use 30fps progressive that looks gorgeous. The optics are amazing. Canon has always been a leader in optics. The XL-1S has interchangeable lenses. Optional lenses include a red/green 3D stereo lens.
I haven't used it, but I hear that the Panasonic AG-DVX100A. It does 24fps progressive.
It's the survival of big record companies. When you can build a professional grade 16-24 track, 24-bit audio studio in your basement for under $10,000, and then use P2P nteowroks and the web to distribute and promote your music, why on earth would you need a reocord company?
Seems like the RIAA is trying to keep the independants out of the biz.
I can see some useful, if somewhat devious, uses for this type technology.
Smell is liked very closely with memeory and emotion and is a very effective marketing tool. Just look at Cinnabon. They are one of the biggest money makers in mall food courts because of one thing. Smell. Department stores for years have used smells in the ventilation systems to evoke certain emotions from people while shopping.
Imagine going to a cybercafe where the machines are provided by a marketing company. As you serf, small banners pop up. Not enought to be annoying, but they are there.
Now picture a Toyota ad poping up with the subtle scent of new car, not enough were you can pick it out, but enough that it triggers that excited feeling you get when you test drive or buy a new car.
I can see toy ads that would bring back parent's memoryies to childhood by using the smell of paste or Playdoh, even ads around the Christmas holiday with gingerbread smells.
Not just cybercafes, but info kiosks at the mall, or at your local train station or airport. It could even be triggered by using WiFi and reading your http requests. They could use it in conjuction with changing billboard or big-screen video ads in large, indoor areas.
Your local cable company provides a cheap rental of HDTVs courtisy of a marketing firm. Once a month or so, a package comes in the mail with a "smell cartridge" that you relpace in the TV. Commercials and tv events are used to trigger certain smells, again to evoke a certain emotion. Imagine a subtle smell of pizza everytime a Papa John's commercial comes on. Nothing overpowering, but very subtle. Just enough to make you hungry.
You wouldn't need a ton of smells, either. Just a cross section of 20 or so that seem to be a cross section of mainstream life.
I knew a woman who had conversations with ducks when she didn't take her medication. I knew another that would just have bouts of mild paranoia and that would result in insomnia.
I don't know why you posted here, though. I think you will find more helpful info doing a search on Google.
However, I will give you some advice from a peron who has had friends with a similar condition. The most important thing you can do is to give support and be patient with your sister. Medication is going to be a big part of her life and you and your family are going to need to help remind her and to try and make sure she takes it. There are a lot of Patients who forget or refuse to take their meds and need to be hospitalized and have the meds forced on them until they take affect again.
Support and love are the best things to give you sister.
Console game developers have been able to count on this until now. You test and test, on a given company's box and you know your good.
So have consumers. People almost expect a crash or two when working on a document, but can you imagine how pissed a fourteen year old would be if his console crashed during the best score of his little life?
Console manufacturers won't be embracing this idea at all. Bill can blow his longhorn all he wants, but I don't see Sony or Nintendo going the way of the do-do anytime soon.
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I have one (the Gravity) I picked up from Target that came with a small USB 2.0 Hub and a mini optical mouse. Since I DJ with my laptop, I picked this up thinking it would work out pretty well. It did. I carry the laptop, a FireWire drive, a Stanton DJ mixer, two USB audio output devices, a pair of headphones, and all assorted cables and power supplies and I still have enough room for a notebook, pens, pencils, duct tape, tooth brush, condoms, and clean socks.
I've always been partial to Canon GL-2 and the XL-1S. Both use 30fps progressive that looks gorgeous. The optics are amazing. Canon has always been a leader in optics. The XL-1S has interchangeable lenses. Optional lenses include a red/green 3D stereo lens.
I haven't used it, but I hear that the Panasonic AG-DVX100A. It does 24fps progressive.
My two cents.
It's the survival of big record companies. When you can build a professional grade 16-24 track, 24-bit audio studio in your basement for under $10,000, and then use P2P nteowroks and the web to distribute and promote your music, why on earth would you need a reocord company?
Seems like the RIAA is trying to keep the independants out of the biz.
I can see some useful, if somewhat devious, uses for this type technology.
Smell is liked very closely with memeory and emotion and is a very effective marketing tool. Just look at Cinnabon. They are one of the biggest money makers in mall food courts because of one thing. Smell. Department stores for years have used smells in the ventilation systems to evoke certain emotions from people while shopping.
Imagine going to a cybercafe where the machines are provided by a marketing company. As you serf, small banners pop up. Not enought to be annoying, but they are there.
Now picture a Toyota ad poping up with the subtle scent of new car, not enough were you can pick it out, but enough that it triggers that excited feeling you get when you test drive or buy a new car.
I can see toy ads that would bring back parent's memoryies to childhood by using the smell of paste or Playdoh, even ads around the Christmas holiday with gingerbread smells.
Not just cybercafes, but info kiosks at the mall, or at your local train station or airport. It could even be triggered by using WiFi and reading your http requests. They could use it in conjuction with changing billboard or big-screen video ads in large, indoor areas.
Your local cable company provides a cheap rental of HDTVs courtisy of a marketing firm. Once a month or so, a package comes in the mail with a "smell cartridge" that you relpace in the TV. Commercials and tv events are used to trigger certain smells, again to evoke a certain emotion. Imagine a subtle smell of pizza everytime a Papa John's commercial comes on. Nothing overpowering, but very subtle. Just enough to make you hungry.
You wouldn't need a ton of smells, either. Just a cross section of 20 or so that seem to be a cross section of mainstream life.
That was the first thing I thought of when I read this. Of course I saw Polyester when it was re-released with the Odorama cards.
I sent off the link to a few contacts of mine in the Adult Industry.
I knew a woman who had conversations with ducks when she didn't take her medication. I knew another that would just have bouts of mild paranoia and that would result in insomnia.
I don't know why you posted here, though. I think you will find more helpful info doing a search on Google.
However, I will give you some advice from a peron who has had friends with a similar condition. The most important thing you can do is to give support and be patient with your sister. Medication is going to be a big part of her life and you and your family are going to need to help remind her and to try and make sure she takes it. There are a lot of Patients who forget or refuse to take their meds and need to be hospitalized and have the meds forced on them until they take affect again.
Support and love are the best things to give you sister.
Console game developers have been able to count on this until now. You test and test, on a given company's box and you know your good.
So have consumers. People almost expect a crash or two when working on a document, but can you imagine how pissed a fourteen year old would be if his console crashed during the best score of his little life?
Console manufacturers won't be embracing this idea at all. Bill can blow his longhorn all he wants, but I don't see Sony or Nintendo going the way of the do-do anytime soon.
Someone should offer virtual boating trips and fishing expeditions to companies who can't keep up with technology.
That only works in Tijauna.