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- We're getting closer and closer to a computer that you can control with your brain alone. Don't throw out your keyboard and mouse just yet, but within the next five years we could have at least a computerized typewriter that translates your brainwaves into letters and words. Happily, one of the researchers behind the most recent advances in this technology, Klaus-Robert Mueller, is skipping right past the practical applications straight to the stuff we all really want:
We are dreaming of something like a baseball cap with electrodes in the cap that can measure the brainwaves.
Aww, yeah. The future is going to rock. (Via Sarah)People could just put on the cap and have a wireless connection from these electrodes to a computer and they can play video games.
- Speaking of crazy video game controllers, check out this ridiculously hilarious clip from the 1989 film The Wizard, wherein the short-lived Nintendo PowerGlove is introduced. You remember The Wizard, don't you? It was that corny two hour commercial for Super Mario Bros 3 starring the kid from "The Wonder Years." C'mon, we know you saw it in the theaters as soon as it came out. So relive the cheesiness now!
- While we're talking about video games, did you know that soon you might be able to play video games with your pet? Mice Arena is in development right now, and involves your pet (preferably a hamster) in a real tank chasing after a real piece of bait. Your movements of a virtual object on a screen affect the movements of the bait. So in essence your pet is chasing you and you're trying to get away, which is actually kind of creepy. Still, it'd be kind of cool to involve your pet in your gaming activities, though researchers behind the project have even deeper goals in mind, those being:
To merge human spaces with pet spaces through pervasive computing interfaces. By creating high-tech, pets-versus-owners computer games, researchers hope to gain new insights into animal behavior, and perhaps develop new technologies that could close the gap between the species.
Woah. Phillyist isn't sure we want to be that close with our dog.
It was motivated by a complex set of factors, including a desire to celebrate the Flames victories, a desire to break the rules, feelings of stardom and a sense of history.Although, keep in mind the sample size was very small, so this doesn't mean much. Still, the article is worth a read just for great quotes like this one:
Indeed, breast baring has increased of late, including at sports events and concerts, partly due to relaxed societal attitudes on nudity, said Edward Herold, a professor emeritus at the University of Guelph who studies human sexuality.After reading this, Phillyist had a sudden vision of a woman at a classical music concert, perhaps at the Kimmel Center, who is so excited by the violin solo that she just has to leap up and flash the stage, whooping wildly... (Via Sarah)
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