Links for 14-11-2006
Table-top soft-synth, paper batteries, DLE’s bloggerversary, air-guitar T-shirt, drug-testing OAP library volunteers…
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“The ‘reacTable’, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface…”
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“As a boy, Lester Waugh loved painting and later sang opera. Now he’s building cutting-edge machines for a mission to Mars.”
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“So I went and looked for it, and found it, and went into it, creating an Avatar of my own; and was plunged into a realm, not particularly rich as far as I could get, feeling much like Alice in Wonderland as I tried to navigate…” John Crowley enters Sec
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“One of the more perplexing finds on Mars are features that look like the product of groundwater seeping to the surface.” It’s that time of month for the ‘water on Mars’ meme again, it seems.
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“Given how tricky it is to pick up accidental radio signals — “leakage” — from extraterrestrial civilizations, how hard would it be to communicate with our own probes once they’ve reached a system like Alpha Centauri?”
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“The futuristic wall computers from Minority Report will soon be reality, Microsoft’s chief [says].”
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“Publishers are tapping into a young audience by sending books to cell phones and flashing the text before users’ eyes–one word at a time.” Interesting.
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“I’m about to hit a nice little landmark that I think is worth sharing: as of tomorrow, I’ve been blogging for exactly one year.” Happy bloggerversary, David Louis Edelman!
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“In addition to intuitive and greatly simplified flight control, perhaps the AirScooter’s greatest design feature, is that it falls into the ultralight weight class; requiring no pilot’s license.” I want one!
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“While juicy, scientific details aren’t readily available, we do know that the “paper battery” won’t include any toxic chemicals, is “flexible and thin,” and molds together the companies [sic] “thin film technologies” with its battery knowledge.”
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“What follows is a brief overview in two parts. In the first, we’ll discuss current issues surrounding fair use with regard to the DMCA, and in the second we’ll approach Microsoft’s legal actions against Viodentia for FairUse4WM.”
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“Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet, even as users develop savvier ways around it, according to early results in the first-ever comprehensive global survey of internet censorship.”
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“Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer which interprets them and turns them into musical notes. The wearer only has to act out playing the instrument to make sounds.” Excellent!
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Despite the double-digit million-dollar price of a ticket, Russia’s space tourism scheme has proven so popular that seats are sold out until 2009, the head of the Russian Space Agency Anatoly Perminov said in an interview published Monday.
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“For a space elevator travelling at the current proposed speed of 200 kilometres per hour, however, passengers might spend half a week in the belts. That would hit them with 200 times the radiation experienced by the Apollo astronauts.”
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16 – SimCity for real“Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play ‘SimCity’ for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonymous, model of the UK population.”
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“The flyboys are looking for a few good researchers ‘to develop and test voice transformation algorithms’ so airmen can ‘disguise their true identity or… make their voice sound like another individual.’”
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“This is just a common-sense issue – why are we spending tax money to test 75-year-old grandmothers for marijuana? We should be using that money to buy more books and computers.” And I thought we had problems.
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“Those of you in the Boston vicinity may want to make your way to the MIT Media Lab’s Bartos Theatre this Thursday for [...] a reading by Four time Nebula Award winning writer Joe Haldeman (The Forever War) and a discussion of his work.”
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