For guys who drop jaws over using accelerometers for gaming, check out the "amida simputer" (http://www.amidasimputer.com/). It pretends to be a PDA and is not classy by any stretch of imagination, but is cool in a weird geeky nerdy sort of way. (Hey! It runs Linux:) I bought one recently and have dropped many jaws showing the "golgoli" (marbles maze) and bricks games that you can play by just tilting it this way and that!
It will greatly legitimize Bittorrent if Apple and (ahem!) M$ both switch to delivering their software updates via bittorrent. It'll save them a ton of money while getting their updates to their users much quicker. Why isn't this happening?
Much of the argument against such research seems to be along the lines of "this is dangerous waters", or "you're trying to play God", or, to quote from the article,
"It would deny that there is something distinctive and valuable about human beings that ought to be honored and protected," said Cohen
One could view this "issue" in the same way Galileo saw the universe out there in his social context. That the earth was not the centre of the universe was unacceptable back then. Fast forward to now, such research simply challenges the "Man is the centre of the universe" postulate.
What ego!
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For guys who drop jaws over using accelerometers for gaming, check out the "amida simputer" (http://www.amidasimputer.com/). It pretends to be a PDA and is not classy by any stretch of imagination, but is cool in a weird geeky nerdy sort of way. (Hey! It runs Linux :) I bought one recently and have dropped many jaws showing the "golgoli" (marbles maze) and bricks games that you can play by just tilting it this way and that!
It will greatly legitimize Bittorrent if Apple and (ahem!) M$ both switch to delivering their software updates via bittorrent. It'll save them a ton of money while getting their updates to their users much quicker. Why isn't this happening?
Much of the argument against such research seems to be along the lines of "this is dangerous waters", or "you're trying to play God", or, to quote from the article, "It would deny that there is something distinctive and valuable about human beings that ought to be honored and protected," said Cohen One could view this "issue" in the same way Galileo saw the universe out there in his social context. That the earth was not the centre of the universe was unacceptable back then. Fast forward to now, such research simply challenges the "Man is the centre of the universe" postulate. What ego!