At work, do you find your desk isn’t covered with enough tiny fridges, foam missile launchers, assorted dongles and stuffed animals? Perhaps you’re concerned that your colleagues don’t realise what a tubby bastard you are? Well worry no more, thanks to Heinz you can now fire up everyone’s favourite musical fruit right on your desktop, with the world’s first USB powered microwave.
The tiny device comes complete with a dash of terror as you realise it works using mobile phone frequencies-that’s right, that thing you hold next to your brain all day can actually cook a burger- and now there’s no need to ever leave your desk, so get cooking drones!
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First of all, the word “Eyeborg” is a little too close to “Lobot” for my liking, and secondly, this probably sets a pretty freaky precedent, but that hasn’t stopped Toronto resident Rob Spence, who lost an eye three years ago, from pimping his socket out with a hidden camera. Seems filmmaker Spence, 36, thinks we might like to know what life is like through his eyes, although he has promised to seek the permission of anyone filmed before broadcast, so it’s not true lifecasting, but it’s very, very close.
“It is very interesting that my plan has been met with fear and fascination. People find the idea that any part of the body being replaced by a machine is difficult. But when it is the eye, the personal window to the soul, then that is even more difficult.”
Personally I’m waiting to see how long before someone stuffs these things in a celebrity so that warped reality TV fans can literally spend time in someone else’s head.
LINK (Times)
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When not googling our own names/local strip clubs/illegal dog fight pictures, ES occasionally use the series of intertubes to find out real actual stuff (how much is that jetpack/what is my ex-wife doing), but it gets pretty frustrating when you have multiple info factors involved. Luckily in the near future we will no longer have to ask Jeeves (why is Google better than you?) those more esoteric questions, thanks to the terrifyingly named Wolfram Alpha search system.
No formula questions, no rrules for asking, just mathematical algorythms and a complexity factor that mean just about any question can be answered!
Wolfram himself suggests: How many protons are present in a lasagna for six people?
I suggest: How many grenades to take out every child in that schoolhouse?
Which means we finally have access to a system that will tell us if Commander Riker is on board the enterprise or not, and could well bring Google down.
LINK (Wolfram)
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February 9, 2009 – 1:05 am
Even though most of us have iPhones and Blckberrys and whatnots these days, there’s always a time when you get stuck without a terminal, and end up revisiting the 1990s (or various parts of the US), and holing up in an ‘Internet Cafe’ as I believe they were known. Well, this socially awkward sitch is a thing of the past thanks to the boffins at MIT, whose latest newfangled gizmo combines a webcam, projector and mobile phone into a piece of jewellery.
In a scarily-accurate fortelling of shriekyware, the device piggybacks onto any web-enabled phones in the vicinity, and gives you a heads-up projected display on any surface you care to name!The whole thing comes with lots of quirky add-ons (hold your hands up in a frame shape and click your finger-it takes a picture) and webcam connectivity even turns you into a web-searchable live site, broadcasting through search engines, so remember to take it off before you shower.
LINK (PH)
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December 12, 2008 – 5:09 pm
Your thoughts are no longer your own. Japanese scientists have created a device that can decipher the images in your own mind.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds.
“It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity,” the private institute said in a statement.
So we may be able to watch people’s dreams…This is somewhat disturbing. Imagine an industry devoted to feeding people weird and scary images (and cheese) before collecting their dream-juice to sell on as entertainment… Doomed future, people!
LINK (Yahoo News)
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