I'm not disabled myself
but the first thing that comes to mind with one of these things
is if it could be used to control motorized missing limbs?
wikipedia mentions neural interfaces that connect directly to the brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
if you could carry a laptop around with one of these little boxes
it might be a bit more convenient (and perhaps safer) that having direct brain implants
with enough time and miniaturization you might even be able to get feedback
not to mention the 6 million dollar coolness factor (plus tax)
Chairman Bill Gates predicted computer users will increasing use voice-recognition technology and touch screens rather than keyboards. The software maker is betting big on that trend, Gates told a crowd at Carnegie Mellon Univ. In 5 years, he predicted, more Internet searches will be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard. Clippy says Command not recognized
"RM dash rf root start execute no shit stop you piece of crap" is not a valid command
please speak more clearly into your windows server certified microphone
It's kind of funny, but the first thing I thought of when seeing this
was the "brain phone" in ghost in the shell, whereby the persons voice can be heard inside the head
(now if we could just get it to be 2 way)
still, there's no telling what long term exposure would do
microwaved brain anyone?
considering it costs $110,000, and if the gas station is fully automated will it be able to beat the crap out of someone who refuses to pay?
(think Johny Cab / Total Recall)
when someone leans across and says
what's that noise?
just say don't worry it's just uncle SAM
a cheaper way might be to paint clouds on the side of the aircraft for camouflage
or if it's a green laser they're using how about some luminous green paint
to be honest I'd think it would be slightly cheaper to try and avoid a situation where someone wants to fire missiles at you in the first place (usually it's a good idea)
personally I prefer nibbles (4bits each or 1/2 a byte used with old parallel ports)
to make the numbers look bigger
working under the assumption of 1024 to the power of 6
2,305,843,009,213,693,952 nibbles of information
now that's a lot a chewin
From what I've seen so far the only parts that actually look better on a movie at the moment
appear to be the CGI, or shots at a distance
everything else in terms of actors grass / backgrounds / closeups etc doesn't look all that different
there are a couple of exceptions to this
for real HD movies that make you go oooo, take a look at the box set "Planet Earth" made by the BBC
not as exciting as spiderman 3 (wildlife documentary), but it's about the best example of HD content I've seen so far, where you can really notice the difference
other than that, the bit at the beginning of hitch hikers guide is quite nice (the bit with the dolphins)
it kind of makes me wonder if some of these films are losing the "HD feel" because of post production somewhere (to get rid of all those spots and blemishes) on the film closeups
did anyone else think it ironic that while your reading the above
"The future is Blu" flash advertisement pops up just beneath
I think the "Blu" way is definitely dominating over here in the UK
one look in hmv or the virgin stores in Manchester and there are more blu than brown cases on the shelves by a long way (over here some HD DVD cases appear to be brown instead of red for some reason)
not to mention the can of worms they opened up with Transformers
Looking at some current PC internal drives at the moment quite a lot appear to be dual format for reading
but most are writable only for BD
I've yet to see a HD DVD writer (reader yes, writer no)
in short it's pretty much a no brainer at the moment
personally I'm waiting for the drives to mature a bit more first before getting one
I remember going through the whole "dual layer" writing thing with DVD's in just the same way
(Pioneer will probably have it all sorted sometime around April I'd guess)
I was always more of a ZX Spectrum geek than a Commodore geek but the sound was definitely awesome, even now
but I did manage to pickup an old Commodore 128D from a friend of mine in college for a fiver I'm not sure but I think this model might have been quite expensive originally (metal box version I think $500) inbuilt 5 1/4 disk drive, originally used on an oil rig (large square cream box) the keyboard is separate from the main unit (connected with a short but hefty 30core or something wire) state of the art IEEE1384 interface (whatever the hell that is) there was also a separate double disk unit which connected to the interface which had 2 x 5 1/4 drives in and weighed an absolute frickin ton (non of your fancy pants blu-ray here me-lado)
I remember a relation of mine managed to code a game for it, back in the day, which somehow managed to get around the colour limitation within sprites on the graphics chip, by using a strange quirk in the chip he'd discovered unfortunately it never got to market before the next generation of devices came along
Just remember when visiting the US
not to whistle or humm any tunes
otherwise they'll rip out your vocal cords, and you'll have to speak with the aid of an electric razor
remember kids copyright infringement equals terrorisms
be safe be silent
(I wonder who holds the copyright on the Star-Spangled Banner)
This reminds me of some of the logos I saw in the "ghost in the shell" series (hmmm I wonder if they actually are QR codes)
would it be possible to get a working tattoo of one of these? a fun way to stop anyone taking your picture, a tattoo virus on your forehead that places an image where your face would be:)
I think the main problem is scale given the number of houses / users / locations / scripts constantly interacting one small change can bring the whole system to it's knee's
although I must admit it does need a complete overhaul
how long before we can get this thing hooked up to secondlife?
all we need now is some form of feedback and we're all set
all in the interests of science of course
mmmmm science
The link reminds me of an article I saw recently in the Fortean Times (couldn't find a link sorry) during the early days of X-Ray's they were often used as a method for hair removal (you'd place an exposed body part in front of a wooden box / machine and the hiar would drop out)
it was only later on that they discovered the slight problem with cancer
Slashdot Mirror
How about a flying car, with an embedded macbook all made of this stuff?
bah where's my orbital elevator damnit!
I'm not disabled myself
but the first thing that comes to mind with one of these things
is if it could be used to control motorized missing limbs?
wikipedia mentions neural interfaces that connect directly to the brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
if you could carry a laptop around with one of these little boxes
it might be a bit more convenient (and perhaps safer) that having direct brain implants
with enough time and miniaturization you might even be able to get feedback
not to mention the 6 million dollar coolness factor (plus tax)
"RM dash rf root start execute no shit stop you piece of crap" is not a valid command
please speak more clearly into your windows server certified microphone
It's kind of funny, but the first thing I thought of when seeing this
was the "brain phone" in ghost in the shell, whereby the persons voice can be heard inside the head
(now if we could just get it to be 2 way)
still, there's no telling what long term exposure would do
microwaved brain anyone?
I've heard they're going to phase it in
Heavy Goods Vehicles / Trucks for the first month on the right side
then cars / bikes later on
cyber-terrorism, because just being a plain old ordinary terrorist is just so boring these days
considering it costs $110,000, and if the gas station is fully automated will it be able to beat the crap out of someone who refuses to pay?
(think Johny Cab / Total Recall)
"warning insufficient funds
engage orifice insertion override"
No Mr Stallman I expect you to Die
ethics schmethics
all you really need is a bunch of Koreans, and a starcraft interface
you shouldn't be using the term "Cyberwarfare" I've just trademarked it ... oh wait
now your breaking my CyberLaw
How about a new form of lubricant?
combined with someone who has small hands, it's a sure fire winner
all I need now is a patent
they don't need to use real SAM's just one of these
SkyTag
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tracker.shtml
when someone leans across and says
what's that noise?
just say don't worry it's just uncle SAM
a cheaper way might be to paint clouds on the side of the aircraft for camouflage
or if it's a green laser they're using how about some luminous green paint
to be honest I'd think it would be slightly cheaper to try and avoid a situation where someone wants to fire missiles at you in the first place (usually it's a good idea)
personally I prefer nibbles (4bits each or 1/2 a byte used with old parallel ports)
to make the numbers look bigger
working under the assumption of 1024 to the power of 6
2,305,843,009,213,693,952 nibbles of information
now that's a lot a chewin
From what I've seen so far the only parts that actually look better on a movie at the moment
appear to be the CGI, or shots at a distance
everything else in terms of actors grass / backgrounds / closeups etc doesn't look all that different
there are a couple of exceptions to this
for real HD movies that make you go oooo, take a look at the box set "Planet Earth" made by the BBC
not as exciting as spiderman 3 (wildlife documentary), but it's about the best example of HD content I've seen so far, where you can really notice the difference
other than that, the bit at the beginning of hitch hikers guide is quite nice (the bit with the dolphins)
it kind of makes me wonder if some of these films are losing the "HD feel" because of post production somewhere (to get rid of all those spots and blemishes) on the film closeups
did anyone else think it ironic that while your reading the above
"The future is Blu" flash advertisement pops up just beneath
I think the "Blu" way is definitely dominating over here in the UK
one look in hmv or the virgin stores in Manchester and there are more blu than brown cases on the shelves by a long way (over here some HD DVD cases appear to be brown instead of red for some reason)
not to mention the can of worms they opened up with Transformers
Looking at some current PC internal drives at the moment quite a lot appear to be dual format for reading
but most are writable only for BD
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?n=2,11,78
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CD%2FDVD+Drives/HD%2FDVD+BluRay/?p=cF9zdHlsZT1saXN0JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=10&subid=314 - BDR drives
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=558&subid=1022 - HD DVD media still in stock
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=558&subid=1023 - BDR media sold out
I've yet to see a HD DVD writer (reader yes, writer no)
in short it's pretty much a no brainer at the moment
personally I'm waiting for the drives to mature a bit more first before getting one
I remember going through the whole "dual layer" writing thing with DVD's in just the same way
(Pioneer will probably have it all sorted sometime around April I'd guess)
I was always more of a ZX Spectrum geek than a Commodore geek
but the sound was definitely awesome, even now
but I did manage to pickup an old Commodore 128D from a friend of mine in college for a fiver
I'm not sure but I think this model might have been quite expensive originally (metal box version I think $500)
inbuilt 5 1/4 disk drive, originally used on an oil rig (large square cream box)
the keyboard is separate from the main unit (connected with a short but hefty 30core or something wire)
state of the art IEEE1384 interface (whatever the hell that is)
there was also a separate double disk unit which connected to the interface which had 2 x 5 1/4 drives in
and weighed an absolute frickin ton
(non of your fancy pants blu-ray here me-lado)
I remember a relation of mine managed to code a game for it, back in the day, which somehow managed to get around the colour limitation within sprites on the graphics chip, by using a strange quirk in the chip he'd discovered
unfortunately it never got to market before the next generation of devices came along
Just remember when visiting the US
not to whistle or humm any tunes
otherwise they'll rip out your vocal cords, and you'll have to speak with the aid of an electric razor
remember kids copyright infringement equals terrorisms
be safe be silent
(I wonder who holds the copyright on the Star-Spangled Banner)
This reminds me of some of the logos I saw in the "ghost in the shell" series
:)
(hmmm I wonder if they actually are QR codes)
would it be possible to get a working tattoo of one of these?
a fun way to stop anyone taking your picture, a tattoo virus on your forehead that places an image where your face would be
I think the main problem is scale
given the number of houses / users / locations / scripts constantly interacting
one small change can bring the whole system to it's knee's
although I must admit it does need a complete overhaul
how long before we can get this thing hooked up to secondlife?
all we need now is some form of feedback and we're all set
all in the interests of science of course
mmmmm science
I was thinking of getting one of these sky tag's as a pointable laser source then I realized it was just an April fool on the site :(
Cool finaly a chance to try out my skytag
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tracker.shtml
The link reminds me of an article I saw recently in the Fortean Times
(couldn't find a link sorry)
during the early days of X-Ray's they were often used as a method for hair removal
(you'd place an exposed body part in front of a wooden box / machine and the hiar would drop out)
it was only later on that they discovered the slight problem with cancer
will the open source version involve a spoon and a soldering iron?
if so, sign me up for beta testing!
must think in Russian
must think in Russian
ether that or XML/ODF to stop MS reading your brain