emotiv- brain/computer interface

"Emotiv has created the first brain computer interface technology that can detect and process both human conscious thoughts and non-conscious emotions. The technology, which comprises a headset and a suite of applications, allows computers to differentiate between particular thoughts such as lifting an object or rotating it; detect and mimic a user’s expressions, such as a smile or wink; and respond to emotions such as excitement or calmness."
apparently emotiv is going to be attacking the market first through video game applications, which is pretty exciting, but for some reason i find it strange that the video game industry will be responsible for bringing this kind of technology to the forefront.
heres a demo of the system from the game developers conference, i think.

seems kind of sluggish, but pretty cool, huh?

robert hodgin

i dont know wahat you would call this guy- video artist? experimental graphic designer? computer animator? genius? definitely genius, no doubt about that. apparently this guy has been responsible for a number of award winning advertisements and creative projects and blahblahblah. just watch-







for a massive treasure trove of his work and thoughts, and tons of larger scaled videos, check out his blog here- flight404.com

alternate uses for your laptop

in order to promote "shutdown day", where they ask everyone to go 24 hours without your computer this march 24th, just to see what will happen, these guys made a hilarious short of alternate uses for your laptop.


“Emails will go unanswered, and blogs will not be updated. During lunch breaks, people might talk to their co-workers and go for walks outside. One might even buy a newspaper to catch up on the latest.

At home, computer games will wonder what they’ve done to cause their players to ignore them so completely. The echoes of IM bleeps and pings will temporarily cease.”

the Julie Amero case

this is the teacher in conneticut that is being tried (for 40 years!) for allowing children to see pornography on one of the school computers. basically, she got slammed with a bunch of porn popups, and being fairly computer illiterate, she didnt know what to do to stop it, and no matter how fast she clicked away, the porn just kept coming. i dont know why this lady didnt have the wherewithal to just turn the monitor off, or cover it up, i imagine she was just panicking. anyway, the details of the case are pretty f'ed up, lots of bad politicking and bullshiting going on, like the school hadnt updated their virus software since 2004, she was told that if she unplugged the computer the whole network would go down, people accusing her of intentionally doing it to corrupt the kids, clueless computer "experts", etc. etc. the whole situation is a fiasco of blame game, and this poor substitute is caught up in the middle of it.
its definitely worth a look, and if you are so inclined, worth some time to send off a coule emails in her defense. here is the blog set up by her husband that has more info, and addresses to the various nitwits in charge of the whole deal.

linkage-
julieamer.blogspot.com

oh god! awful microsoft promo

this has to be the worst advertisement ever made. promo video for microsoft 386 from 89? i think.
i just dont understand how anyone could ever make such a monstrosity. i mean, think about it- when something like this gets made, someone has to come up with the concept, and think "hey, what a great idea!". they then have to pitch the concept, and someone else has to say "hey, what a great idea! do it". then a whole group of someones have to make it, and again, it has to go through more groups of people who have to say, "great, we approve! send it out!"

so the question is, how do these things happen? watch and cringe...

virginia techs mac supercomputer

virginia tech put together the 3rd most powerful supercomputer in the world by linking 1100 apple g5s, getting 10.28 teraflops for only 5.2 million dollars. as a comparison, the second most poweful supercomputer is the one at los alamos, which manages 13.88 teraflops for a price of 215 million. so thats $15,489,914 per teraflop for los alamos vs. $505,836 per teraflop for virginia tech.

new mac ad on vista security measures

im sure youll see it sooner or later, but i just thought it was worth going ahead and posting it, since it gave me a good chuckle

multi touch 2

heres a video update on jeff han and his nyu research teams work on touch screens

steve jobs- macworld 2007 keynote

the whole thing is available for viewing online at youtube. say what you want, but that phone is pretty dope.
link

bill gates at CES

speakin of gettin served...daaaaaaaamn! bill gets its AGAIN. embarassing equipment malfunctions at this years consumer electronics show. how many times has this happened to this poor man? poor man. hardly.