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Some of you might know my wife Maggie is about to have a baby. Looks like it’s about that time. Forgive the absence of enlightening posts for, ya know, at least a few hours.
UPDATE: Woo! a Baby girl!
Name: Isabella Grace
Born: Thursday, February 21st, 9:31 am
Weight: 8 lbs 3.5 oz
Length: 20.5 in
Head: 13.5″
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Wait till you wrap your head around this… or rather warp this around your head.
Emotiv Systems is preparing to launch the Emotiv Epoc. A wireless device that senses brain activity and allows you to interact with an interface.
“The $299 headset has a gyroscope to detect movement and has wireless capabilities to communicate with a USB dongle plugged into a computer.
The Emotiv said the headset could detects more than 30 different expressions, emotions and actions.”
The headset is being developed initially for gaming consoles (of course) but theres not much imagination needed to see how this could influence interaction online and in the realm of 3D CAD. To bring back a painful piece of technology, it’s like the circa 1989 Power Glove for your head. I’m sure it works much better… and so stylish too.
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Who makes a commercial with creepy little monochromatic people anyway? The SolidWorks parent company Dassault Systemes does. And while it has the feel of that movie where the guy brings that little clay man to life, it’s very cool.
They showed this at SolidWorks World 2008 and I wanted to hunt it down and post it so could share the nightmares of these tiny people crawling up your bed and kicking your eyeballs because they couldn’t get a bike in the door and had to move from their comfortable seats. I suppose it’s better than a swarm of them coming out of the cornfields with tiny, little monochromatic sickles. *shiver*
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The reason I kinda wonder is that this was in the news last year and it’s been known that Microsoft is researching mapping the sky. Granted, you add a slick interface where you’re moving through star systems in a 3D like environment. That would be almost worthy a few tears. And if it were real-time? that would be simply amazing.
I’m sure the preview will show up TED.com in the near future.
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Yes, that’s right. Ugly, rabid monkeys with three toes and high tariffs.
Ponoko, the design-it, make-it, sell-it web site has quelled the fears of their users and completely slashed the prices for shipping around the entire known world.
If you’re in the US, shipping prices from New Zealand can be downright frightening. Actually, shipping prices anywhere from there or to there would typically be high. But now, depending on what material you use to make your product, the shipping cost is much lower. Here’s an example from the blog post.
To send a P1 anywhere in the USA was $51.36 it’s NOW $14.60
That’s a huge savings. Ponoko was attractive before, but I was apprehensive about shipping cost. This makes it even more attractive and I’m ready to try out some ideas I’ve had.
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Something really cool just happened today. I guy I hung out with in Switzerland IM’d me and said,
‘The first 20 shirts are printed and sold!!’
He just had twenty screen-printed shirts made of a design he created and proceeded to sell them all.
No big deal right?
Well, he’s wanted to do this since I first mentioned it to him…five years ago. I told him how to do it and showed him some stuff in Photoshop. It was nothing you would think much more about or expect to be fruitful with the amount of time spent mentioning an idea in a single phrase.
‘You could…’
How does that open up immeasurable possibilities? This, combined with knowing how to use a tool, whether a hammer or a program, lays the causeway for one seriously potent and innovative delivery of material success.
So, just be careful what you say, you might inspire someone.
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I love errors. Those kinds that riddle a FeatureManager Tree with red like the list of a persistent hitman with refined and distinguished taste. Errors can be a disgustingly vicious act and a lovely dinner all tied up together.
Errors force a solution
Or rather, errors force determining a solution. The hitman’s hitman to keep that cool analogy steaming along.
You have to figure out what happened, where it happened and how to prevent or get around it undetected. It’s when your senses are honed and you learn the most.
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The tech sector has been buzzing like a physician induced, caffeine-like high about a post Robert Scoble wrote last week. A post that revealed that Microsoft will reveal something never revealed by those that reveal things previously unrevealed. And that is about all you can get out of it… unless you look a little deeper.
What will Microsoft launch Febuary 27th that Will Change the World?
I started wasting time speculating myself. I got as far as assuming it was graphical and interface related since Scoble thought so much of Oragami and Vista. I was thinking maybe something with the Flash-like Silverlight product mixed with touch and 3D, but yesterday he re-posted and kind of killed the fun of speculating.
Instead of letting your expectations run wild, let’s stay calm. This is just a service that inspired me and made me react emotionally, in a way that few things I see make me react.
Despite his post, I’m still thinking it’s going to be visual-related. You don’t react emotionally to lines of code or large well-written and insightful paragraphs. It will allow you to do something different than how you’ve done it previously. Some will think it’s another ploy by Microsoft to take over the world.
Oh, and it’s perfectly fun to trounce Microsoft when they’re so big, and it will understandably continue, I’m sure. They’re big enough to take it. We can complain about the corporate megopoly, but no doubt they have some individuals working for them that are bringing a lot of new technology to the open market where it would otherwise take much longer. That being said, if what comes out really sucks, I’ll be disappointed. There will be videos out March 3rd that previews the new tech.
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CGSociety.com is tempting you to make something more inspirational that a block sitting on a mound of dirt. With some of the submission already, it’s more like a dare for SolidWorks users.
Personally, I’m not sure if anyone can do create an architectural marvel in SolidWorks that could rival something created in another program. I hope some one proves me wrong, of course, and waves a brand new nVidia Quaddro FX 5600 in my saddened face.
The prizes may get your creative juices flowing: 1st Prize: 2 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 cards and 1 week ‘all inclusive’ holiday valued at $10,000 (USD). 2nd Prize: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card. 3rd Prize: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card.
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I would have to say its a bit like being pinned under a horse. At first its all pins and needle, then it starts nipping at you… repeatedly. It’s downright antagonizing, much like these links.
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Wait till you wrap your head around this… or rather warp this around your head.
Something really cool just happened today. I guy I hung out with in Switzerland IM’d me and said,
I love errors. Those kinds that riddle a FeatureManager Tree with red like the list of a persistent hitman with refined and distinguished taste. Errors can be a disgustingly vicious act and a lovely dinner all tied up together.
…you could win a SolidWorks compliant video card.
I would have to say its a bit like being pinned under a horse. At first its all pins and needle, then it starts nipping at you… repeatedly. It’s downright antagonizing, much like these links.
