Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies
Top 10 transhumanist technologies — Ooo... I love stuff like this. Science fiction come to life?
Top 10 transhumanist technologies — Ooo... I love stuff like this. Science fiction come to life?
Coping with death on the web [via Dave]
The brain scan that can read people's intentions. Welcome to the future.
I can always count on Dave for the best paranoid links, but this one even makes me a little nervous. Watch out for the RFID tattoos. Number of the beast, Tammy?
Yet another reason to hate Microsoft. Zune sucks. I've essentially been MS-free for five years with no adverse effects. If I could find a decent spreadsheet for OS X, I'd be completely Microsoft free.
Electronic chip, interacting with the brain, modifies pathways for controlling movement — Mechanism may have potential in stroke and brain injury rehabilitation [via Dave]
Funny! Friends list — social networks and hyper-links revenge c. 2006 (I didn't know that Gina, who is one of the editors at lifehacker, had a blog...)
The 95 theses of geek activism. Great reading for geeks.
Keeping the sci-fi health theme going: bionic man can control robotic arm with his mind and silk may be able to help repair damaged nerves. We are living in the future. [via Dave]
Science fiction approaches reality: Suspended animation trials are underway, and they're working
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published its patent hit-list, ten patents they'd like to kill [via Dave]
This Apple notebooks comparison chart is quite handy, though I'm still at least fifteen months away from getting a new computer.
Fun Wii facts confirmed — okay, it's official — I'm not channeling all my "found" money (garage sale money, web site ad revenue, etc.) into a fund to buy Nintendo's latest game system when it comes out around Thanksgiving. I had been intending to save for a new Mac, but that can wait. I want a Wii.
When a real pet won't do: One Robot Dog, a man in search of a robot companion [via nicole]
Super Mario Galaxy — Place your bets now! What are the odds that Mr. Frugal buys a Nintendo Wii? I'd say they're 2-1 in favor at the moment. Time to start saving my pennies.
Brain Port: "By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, [researchers] hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish." It's like science fiction! [via Dave]
Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill, including jail periods of up to ten years for willful copyright infringement. Because, you know, it's a worse crime than driving under the influence. [via Dave]
Sci-fi now: brain cells fused with computer chip. I still haven't given up my dream of immortality. It seems to me that the form this is most likely to take is something along these lines: a fusing of mind and machine, so that my consciousness lives on in a computer state. [via dave]
SXSW to MPAA: STFU — the battle over copyrights is in full-swing and there's a huge cognitive disconnect between consumers and the multimedia behemoths that own most of the work
Hey! All you breeders! Here's Trixie Tracker, web-based software to track your baby's health. How often does she eat? Sleep? Poop? Track it with technology...
A Hoist to the Heavens — "A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one?" I love it when science fiction creeps into real life. [via bb]
The skin you're in — "When Erika Thereian changed her Second Life skin from white to black, other things changed. Friends became distant, men made assumptions about her sexuality that they hadn't previously made, and there were blatant racist attacks." [via sennoma]
via Dave: Houston proposes surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and Chicago wants them in private businesses. Smile — you're on candid camera!
Another example of why you oughtn't place your blind trust in the Power That Be: RFID tags are attackable by cell phone. Kris and I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room last night, and I'm feeling rather disillusioned with this nation's corpocracy. Can you tell? [via Dave]
Fuck the bastards: RIAA says ripping CDs to your iPod is NOT fair use. Here's the deal: if you comply with these greedy corporations, if you continually grant them greater power over the media and over the copyright laws, eventually they will be able to charge you for access whenever and whereever you want to use your media. It's time to take a stand, folks, it's time to tell Big Media to shove it.
Biker/blogger with a helmet-mounted video camera films car crashing into her as she rides her motorcycle. (Not gross, just interesting.)
Better living through video games — Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging [via Jenn]
U.S. company implants electronic tags in workers — would you allow this to happen to you? [via Dave, of course]
The secret cause of flame wars: people believe their intended tone can be perceived 80% of the time in internet communication, but in reality recipients are only able to perceive the intended tone 50% of the time.
Zeppelins forever! Worldwide Aeros announces luxurious airborne cruise ships. More here and here. [via Dave, of course — he's my link to all the latest airship news!]
Alone together in World of Warcraft: an interesting analysis of the social dynamics of this supposedly multiplayer game. This article argues that, largely, people choose to be by themselves in this heavily social virtual world. [via waxy]
Advice on importing audiobooks into iTunes [via lee]
An atlas of cyberspaces, topology maps of various networks — kind of cool [via Paul, or maybe AJ]
The Walrus, a mammoth military blimp in the planning stages [via Dave]
Another sign that the future is here: this wireles Flickr-enabled photo frame presents an ever-present slideshow of the thirty most recent photos in your Flickr photo stream [via Dave]
Here is a wonderful gallery of early 1960s advertising artwork for Motorola depicting near-futuristic life at home. Good stuff.
ASIMO, the humanoid robot, runs at 6 km/h — Blade Runner, here we come
Is a 39-megapixel digital camera big enough for you? [via Dave]
WTF? Prepare for the world's first musical sandwich [via betsy]
Reportedly this is a good HDTV digital indoor antenna. The last one I bought sucked. We got nothing.
Dick Tracy, eat your heart out: a 64mb USB watch for $15 and a 1gb USB watch for $100 are available. (Prices drop after rebates!)
!!! Another instance of science fiction becoming reality: print your own organs [via Dave]
Should you buy a TV from a PC maker? [via Sabino, of all people]
Fascinating: two stories of Digital Rights Management run amok. Sony, rootkits, and DRM gone too far. Also, DRM-crippled CD: a bizarre tale in four parts. Both are longish and technical, but simply vital reading.
Repeat, but worth it: Kevin Kelly's cool tools, a web site devoted to the best of everything
Uncle Mark's 2006 Gift Guide and Almanac — I read the 2004 version of this guide, and it was excellent, filled with great suggestions.
Everybody's heard about the new video iPods, etc., right? You can now buy music videos and a few television programs (such as Lost and Desperate Housewives) for two bucks a pop. They play back in iTunes or on a video iPod. (Read Daring Fireball's take.)