Which idiot’s balloon will burst first?
Splash the Clowns – Water Balloon Race
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The Theory of Unsustainability
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Xbox 360 – Project Natal
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Microsoft’s new motion controller uses object, movement, and voice recognition to deliver a new kind of immersive gaming experience.
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“The next step in interactive entertainment is to make the controller disappear” ~ Steven Spielberg
“You are the controller,” teased Microsoft at their E3 conference today, firing the shot heard round the blogosphere: a no-controls-whatsoever motion-sensing device.
“Can we make you the controller?” they asked, before answering with an Obama-like “Yes we can.” Forget Steve Austin, it’s The Six Million Dollar Design Grail: Gentlemen, we can rebuild you…we have the technology…better, stronger, faster…and did we mention without an external controller?
Like a nerdy gladiator swaggering onstage to do battle with breathlessly expectant fans and naysayers alike, Microsoft utterly wowed with “Project Natal.” I mean really wowed. Yeah, it’s kind of a dumb name, but it may turn out to be the most impressive show item any company’s crowed about in years. It’s Nintendo’s Wii without the gangly Wii-remote, Sony’s Eye Toy with dramatically better vision. The promise of interaction without wires or widgets. The future you’d been thinking was still a year or three away.
What we saw today was unprecedented: True 1-to-1 motion tracking. Wave your arm and your onscreen avatar follows you precisely. Bend, yoga-like, to form cute animal shadow-shapes and a silhouetted image on a virtual canvas curls and contorts picture-perfectly. Shift toe-to-toe, tennis-like, anticipating objects hurled your way and whatever algorithms are intelligently sorting behind the scenes recognize your intentions, filtering out flailing limbs or ignoring unnecessary maneuvers.
Jun 022009
Yes people… this is what it has come to. Meanwhile Congress believes every word The Tax Cheat says.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency.
A major goal of Geithner’s maiden visit to China as Treasury chief is to allay concerns that Washington’s bulging budget deficit and ultra-loose monetary policy will fan inflation, undermining both the dollar and U.S. bonds.
China is the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bonds. U.S. data shows that it held $768 billion in Treasuries as of March, but some analysts believe China’s total U.S. dollar-denominated investments could be twice as high.
“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.
His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.
Cartoon Of The Day: Obamacar
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