GENOMICON

Quite a cool thing here from Korea that allows you to communicate with your PC using biofeedback… reads electrical impulses from your fingertips so you can train yourself to go into meditative (for example) states.

I know what you’re thinking: “cool, I wonder if I can stick my cock in it”.

What’s the matter with you people!?!!? Is that all you think about? Teledildonics??? Why can’t you think about mowing the lawns or simple home-DIY projects etc like normal human beings? I really do find the lot of you truly alarming.

Anyway, moving on etc… this reminds me of the Open EEG movement which is fairly cool I think. They have an animated introduction, that I haven’t yet seen… and links and instructions etc to all the various bits and pieces you might need if you wanted to make a mind-controlled aeroplane, which would be cool as well.

Open Source Space Travel.

Well it only seemed like yesterday that ludicrously macho clips like this…

where a society that is eating itself alive, throws up as entertainment, incredibly expensive, theatrical and draconian ways to attack and imprison its own population… were ranting on about spybots.

Seriously though, is that what an up-to-the-minute, fashion-conscious policemen is wearing these days?

Welcome to the future. It’s all a game – like paintball but with real bullets.

… still, not to worry kiddy winkies, because you can now get a toy version and at least therein, some semblence of net-value is being created.

via : gizmag (and goddamit, in the time it took to finish the sentence, Sony Ericsson have put out a prettier one

and of course any proper geek… you know, they type who watch robot wars, will instantly recognise that they’re kindof based on one of these:

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And if we get bored with that (we won’t, but if we do) then we need to radically redesign our entire economic system. This one isn’t working.

I mean these guys (who’s thing is to set up high-tech self sustaining and self-contained villages, and who have created an open-source tractor, which may look like a bit of a clunkster

but which can do everything that one 10 times (like $50,000) the price does, and it’s utterly indestructable… and they actually cast their own steel to make it, which is incredibly impressive)…

… these guys, are working on the assumption that a person should need to do around 2 hours of work a day to sustain themselves.

And that people, really will create a cognitive surplus.

There you go:

Sanguino: Arduino’s Big Brother from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.

These guys have taken the Arduino thing which is an open source way of linking a computer to home-made electronic gadgets… and replicated/morphed it so it’s got more capacity than the original. It’s like memetic software making it’s own hardware – but (for the moment) humans are part of the loop.

I love the excitement of this – hauled out of bed at 4.30 in the morning… I can just imagine those old printing-press guys back in the day going “Dude, that’s awesome… check it out” and “this must be like 200 in Swatch Time” and so on.

Now this may seem like a hobbyist thing, but remember that the computer that you’re using to read this has this as it’s ancestor:

The machine that inspired Bill Gates to write Basic. This is how it starts.

You can buy your own from Sanguino for 25$