January 29, 2006 – 2:35 pm
NeuroSky is a new company that creates external thought-controlled devices. Another step in the rudimentary beginnings of a NUI, or Neurological User Interface.
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January 28, 2006 – 6:23 pm
The first gun-toting robotic combat soldiers set to be deployed:
Unlike many of it’s flying robotic (UAV) brethren, the weaponised Talon is not autonomous, being under the direct control of a soldier watching from up to a mile away through an array of cameras which can include both night and thermal vision. SWORDS is completely silent, [...]
January 27, 2006 – 11:05 pm
Just learned that my Sapphire theme is now available for Wordpress.com users. Cool. Thank you, WordPress!
January 27, 2006 – 7:41 am
Continued from Part 2.
Once we reach the point of the CUI (Conversational User Interface), interacting with computers will more and more like interacting with intelligent beings. Computers will seem to be more personable and will seem to possess intelligence long before they actually reach a point where they could seriously be considered as autonomous self-aware [...]
January 23, 2006 – 11:04 pm
This is a continuation of some ruminations I began in Part 1.
Once the NUI (Neurological User Interface) revolution begins, we may see some strange social trends, unique opportunities, and unique problems emerge, such as:
Avatar therapists and monitors
Processing inequalities
Hyperwealthy and subsistence-level poor classes
Naturals backlash movement
Mind control terrorism & intelligence operations
Cyborg-ization of military forces
Reality hacking for crime, [...]
January 21, 2006 – 9:57 pm
In spite of rapid increases in computational power over the past few years, we still use keyboards and mice to interact with our computers. With the advent of tablet PCs and advances in handwriting recognition (Newton, we hardly knew ye), we now can combine computerization with something that to us feels more “natural.” Writing with [...]
January 14, 2006 – 9:28 am
At first, it seems no better than some child’s toy, but keep watching: it gets better, and then it gets amazing. Like any real instrument, the basics are immediately grasped, but when you see how the settings can be changed and how they’re applied and how the instrument is played, you realize you could spend [...]
January 4, 2006 – 9:04 pm
This guy is so totally on the money. One of the smartest I’ve seen.
