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Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.
About Tan Le:
Tan Le is the head of Emotiv Systems, which is developing the next generation of human-machine interface — a headset that takes input directly from the brain. Full bio and more links.
This is great for paraplegics, if you’re not one, perhaps you’ll soon become one due to lethargy lol.
No commentsMichael Jackson… Post, Moonwalker Torrent
can’t see the video? click here
I don’t have a lot to say about this other than when you recap you say wtf happened. Was it the media, pedophilia, owning the elephant man’s bones that haunted Michael Jackson, was he a robot? I can’t say i don’t have the time, someone’s being shady outside our apartment. This should have been posted two days ago but I’ve been busy. Anti Elvis.
Plot: A movie that starts out with the “Man in the Mirror” music video, it then changes to a montage of video clips of Michael’s career. Next comes a parody of his Bad video by children, and then Michael is chased by fans in a fantasy sequence. 2 more videos are shown, and then a movie in which Michael plays a hero with magical powers. In it he is chased by drug dealer Mr. Big and saves three children. Videos included in the movie are “Smooth Criminal” and “Come Together”.
IMDB: Rating: 4.9/10
Release Date: 1988
Runtime: 1:28:53
Cast: Michael Jackson, Hakeem Abdul-Samad, Khiry Abdul-Samad, Tajh Abdul-Samad.
Genre: Fantasy, Music…. Thriller
Rating: VG
Torrent:
[Moonwalker.1988.DVDRip.XViD] | 693.22 mb
Michael Jackson – Moonwalker + NL sub’s DVD-rip DRaGon | 1.76 gb
[Certifiably accurate about the deceased]
[How Jackson's family handling]
[Share your memory at MichaelJackson.com? i dunno]
[Wiki Michael Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8
BONUS: search “moonwalker” from the search panel to real Michael Jackson: Moonwalker for Sega Genesis.
No commentsObjectified, a film about industrial design
No commentsObjectified, a film about industrial design, is a new movie by Gary Hustwit. It’s his followup to Helvetica, which was totally awesome. The film should be released in March, 2009.
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Smart Design (New York)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA
The 1962 science fiction film La Jetée by Chris Marker.
Photos from Stavey Pullen’s AIDS benefit, as well as Cliff Bell’s will be up later, come back soon.
La Jetée is set in a post-nuclear war paris and focuses on a group of survivors living underground as they experiment with time travel. It was produced with minimal budget, has no dialogue, and was constructed almost entirely from black and white still photographs. It is simply one of the most stunning and important visual statements made in the last hundred years.
If you have not seen the film, you must. You can watch it below in three parts (it’s only 28 minutes long).
In 1996 mit press produced a book of images from La Jetée. That book is now out of print, but this year zone books reissued La Jetée in all its glory. The book includes all of the film’s original images along with the script in both english and french. You can buy a copy at mitpress.mit.edu.
IMDB: 8.3/10 (1962) link
Torrent: [La_Jetee_(1962)] TPB
La Jetée is the film that inspired inspired “12 monkeys”.
IMDB: 8.1/10 (1995) link
Torrent: 12_monkeys (1995) TPB
The Bassment Presents May 23rd Demf afterparty: McCarthy’s Pub “Skymall, Heartworm, Xrin Arm..”
Just a reminder, this is going down on friday the 23rd around the same time is demf, will be going until 5am whereas they’re ending demf at like 11pm this year. so you know where you’re gonna be to get your after hours bidnass. this will be a techno blood orgy.
Brief Description:
This DEMF Pre-Party will be monumental and unlike any other. We will be showcasing Michigan’s most talented and cutting edge underground electronic artists as well as special guests Skymall (Addict/Distort) and Heartworm (Digital Hardcore Recordings/ Teen Suicide). There will be non-stop electronic mayhem from 9p.m. until 5a.m. with music ranging from Breakcore, Gabber, Jungle, Industrial, Noise, Gabber, Techno, Ghettotech, Downtempo, Ambient, Hip-Hop, Happy Hardcore, Grindcore, and many other types of electronic madness.
Albert Hoffman creator of lsd dies, 102
No commentsNEW YORK – Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious “problem child,” died Tuesday. He was 102.
Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel, Switzerland, according to Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, in a statement posted on the association’s Web site.
Hofmann’s hallucinogen inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960′s hippy generation. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.
“I produced the substance as a medicine … It’s not my fault if people abused it,” he once said.
The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.
He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped on to his finger during a repeat of the laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943.
“I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness,” he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses.
“Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror,” he said, describing his bicycle ride home. “I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast.
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AIbert Einstein, is a physicist
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With all of our recent technological advancements, we’ve collected our greatest minds for the ultimate goal, allowing our god complex to dictate over our honed morality twisting it into ungodly reason. Without government restrictions, a scientific task force in a South Korean lab has executed their reprehensible agenda, and spawned the abominable cybernetic organism that is…
Humanoid Robot, Albert Hubo v1.0.
Abilities:
1.) Live Speech Recognition and excellent pronunciation.
2.) Can wiggles his ears (just like Albert Einstein would if he were here today).
3.) First jewish robot (unless i missed something from spaceballs).
4.) It’s a god damned android with Albert Einstein’s head.
5.) Is a physicist.
At the beginning of the video it looks like it’s suffering, so lifelike i actually feel a bit bad. If you’d like to see more of Albert Hubo‘s impressive expressions [click here]
Arnold will be president, and these bad boys are going to be at your door collecting the census and gunning down your children.
face was designed by [Hanson Robotics]
post by Christos
No commentsIt’s a small world after all
Imagine a machine so small that it is imperceptible to the human eye. Imagine working machines no bigger than a grain of pollen. Imagine thousands of these machines batch fabricated on a single piece of silicon, for just a few pennies each. Imagine a world where gravity and inertia are no longer important, but atomic forces and surface science dominate. Imagine a silicon chip with thousands of microscopic mirrors working in unison, enabling the all optical network and removing the bottlenecks from the global telecommunications infrastructure. Image buying a three centimeter plasma tv for your ant farm. You are now entering the microdomain, a world occupied by an explosive technology known as MEMS. A world of challenge and opportunity, where traditional engineering concepts are turned upside down, and the realm of the “possible” is totally redefined.
MEMS are quietly changing the way you live, in ways that you might never imagine. The device that senses your car has been in an accident, and fires the airbag is a MEMS device. Most new cars have over a dozen MEMS devices, making your car safer, more energy efficient, and more environmentally friendly. MEMS are finding their way into a variety of medical devices, and everyday consumer products. What’s interesting is that the micro machines etched from silicon wafers you see above can go no further and nanotechnology’s focus now is on manipulating matter on an atomic or molecular scale.
