What you see here is an “EEG” based toy to convince either you or your offspring that the force is with you(or them). This is one of the first mass market toys to use brain to computer control. A simplified version of EEG read by the users headband will help you to raise a ping-pong ball up the tower, which rises 10 inches from the base. The technology was created by NeuroSky and should be implemented in more games before the end of the year.
Star Wars sound effects and audio clips emitted from the base unit “cue you in to progress to the next level (from Padawan to Jedi) or when to move the sphere up or down to keep challenging yourself,” Adler says.
It looks like you will be able to get your heads on this thing from Uncle Milton for about $100 this fall. Untill then may the simplified force be with you.
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A 17-year-old Fairfield Twp. teen pretended to be suicidal when he became frustrated with an online video game, Fairfield Twp. police reported..
According to officials, the teen was arrested Monday, Dec. 29, for inducing panic after patrol officers and medics responded to the boy’s home in the 3000 block of Pimlico Court. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor.
The panic? The teen had earlier approached a GM with threats of being suicidal if he did not receive some loot. Hoping the GM would be sympathetic, but rather he ended up calling the authorities. Serves the kid right.
So he gets no money, no weapons, just a court date instead. The full story is here.
Palm has debuted it’s new device today during a keynote at CES. The Palm Pre. A multi touch display phone with a 3.1 inch 320×480 resolution, EV-DO, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, A2DP and 8 gigs of on-board flash storage. The interesting thing about the face is that the touch sensitivity runs the all the way down and around the lone silver center button occupying the front. The lower touch area is there for gestures. While a full albeit tight qwerty keyboard slides from behind the touchy display. The Phone has Texas Instruments new OMAP CPU powering their all new webOS device platform. The webOS according to Palm supplies laptop power and speed, for some fancy smooth transitions and app switching a-la a deck of cards. The phone houses a 3MP camera with LED flash, microUSB and the usual 3.5mm audio jack. Here is what to write home about: wireless charging. You read it, wireless. Place the phone on it’s charging base “the touchstone” and charge away.
Sprint will offer the phone exclusively in the first half of ‘09. Cost: no mention as of yet.
News of this device was enough to wake Palm’s stock from it’s comatose state and rise 35% today. I would say they have generated some excitement and enthusiasm.
If you want more news check out engadgets hands on here
Steve Ballmer has announced the availability of the Windows 7 Beta at his CES keynote. Ballmer: “The beta version of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation PC operating system, can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet customers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning January 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7.”
Ballmer was even ready to say: “We are on track to deliver the best version of Windows ever. We’re putting in all the right ingredients — simplicity, reliability, and speed — and working hard to get it right, and to get it ready.”
So, tommorrow is the 9th of January. Happy downloading.
And if you give it a shot leave us a note about what you think.
Update:
Microsoft has decided to lift the 2.5 million download limit. After the Windows 7 Beta download went live it did not take very long to choke up the servers, this lift shoul help everyone interested grab a copy of Windows 7, for now.
When a game as good looking and as critically acclaimed as BioShock makes a sequel a lot of people are going to get excited. This teaser comes just in time to whip up some serious anticipation.
The sequel will be released on both consoles, a 2K rep told GameSpot that, “BioShock 2 is destined for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms.
The video is also available in large screen goodness onXbox Live and PlayStation Network.
Look for something to drive your new Samsung monitor or 120Hz 3D HDTV? Enter NVIDIA’s GeForce 3D Vision package, loaded up with powered 3D glasses (no red / blue silliness here, charged via USB) and an IR emitter to keep everything synced between the display and your glasses. Left 4 Dead, WoW: WotLK and several other games are already compatible with more expected to come soon. CES had a quick demo and didn’t notice any of the headaches sometimes associated with stereocopic 3D, but at $399 for the display and $199 for this set when it’s available in the next few days, we’re not sure how close we want to get to those zombies, but WoW fans may see things differently. [via Engadget]
It wasn’t all that bad, just disappointing that there were no minis. But hey whatever. iLife ‘09 brings it’s shiny face to the event and with some slick new features.
iPhoto - “Faces” and “Places” were added two pretty cool features that recognize people in photos and the places they were taken, respectively.
First up Faces. It would appear that once you tag an individual once iPhoto will hunt through and attempt to make more matches of that person in other photos and you simply approve or deny the suggestions. Pretty slick.
And Places. iPhoto now recognizes geotagging info from newer cameras and some cellphones(the iPhone anyone?) and sorts the pictures based on location. You can also tag them manually if your camera does not.
Flickr and Facebook support were added as well. Continue Reading
If this game is half as good as the movies it will be a smash hit.
The graphics are pretty impressive, and hey, it is Ghostbusters.
The game looks like it will be on all current consoles.
I am wondering how this guy thinks this is going to work.
It is a mouse kite, …cool. How do you think this is going to go?
“Hey ladies look at my amazing kite?”
No, it won’t go anything like that.
Although this may seem quite the opposite of what many scientists(and any one else who works with incompetent machines) have been saying for years, it is apparently true.
Brendan Gregg of Sun’s Fishworks lab has posted a video to YouTube showing that taking the dominate role to your disks can, if expressed with sufficient volume in front of a rack full of disks, can cause a spike in disk latency.
Well not really.
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