Face-controlled guitar effects, inkjet nanotubes, Phil Dick’s predictions…

• 1 – Facial Control for Electric Guitar
  “This work presents a system which uses the output from face-tracking and gesture recognition software to drive a parameterized guitar effects synthesizer in real-time.” An absolute must-have for all bedroom axe-men. Raaawk!
  (tags: processing effects guitar electric control facial interaction music entertainment design)
• 2 – Pay-per-Copy Machine Exploit
  This is linked to purely for educational and cultural purposes, and to let certain institutions know that they are begging to be hacked for the Xerox action.
  (tags: copies free exploit hacking hack machine xerox photocopier Pay-per-copy)
• 3 – Philip K. Dick: Defense Tech Guru?
  DefenseTech compare ex-Navy man Heilein and space-cadet Dick for accuracy of prediction of the present time, as far as military tech is concerned. Dick emerges as the clear winner.
  (tags: sf scifi fiction science military comparison accuracy predictions technology defense PKD Dick Philip)
• 4 – Top WordPress Plugins List
  Does what it says on the tin – some new ones to me in there.
  (tags: tools resource list cms blogging blog plugins wordpress)
• 5 – A 1.6km-long carbon ribbon in the skies above Arizona
  “A cathedral made entirely from glass elevators is certainly not a technical challenge; it shouldn’t even be a question of budget or funding.” BLDGBLOG riffing (as only BLDGBLOG can) on the space elevator.
  (tags: futurism imagination beanstalk synagogue mosque cathedral religion elevator space)
• 6 – NASA – Constellation Program: NASA’s New Spaceships
  “NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America’s spacecraft for a new generation of explorers.” $4billion – that’s a lot of dough.
  (tags: Moon missions space construction capsule crew Orion NASA contract Martin Lockheed)
• 7 – Crossword software thrashes human challengers
  “Two versions of the program, called WebCrow, finished first and second in a competition that gave bilingual entrants 90 minutes to work on five different crosswords in Italian and English.” Today, crosswords; tommorow, the economy?
  (tags: futurism triumph software competition crossword WebCrow AI intelligence artificial knowledge shallow Web www)
• 8 – Nanotube Ink: Desktop Printing Of Carbon Nanotube Patterns
  “The method … could lead to a new process for manufacturing a wide range of nanotube-based devices, from flexible electronics and conducting fabrics to sensors for detecting chemical agents.”
  (tags: circuitry electronic flexible patterns conductive ink nanotube carbon technology printing inkjet)
• 9 – The EON Touchlight
  Interactive 3D display; a licenced-out Microsoft invention, apparently. Videos of it in action right here.
  (tags: marketing pitch showcase Touchlight EON interactive technology display 3D)

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