Multiverse is a Second Life competitor, in that it allows the users to define the online experience. But not only that, you get to build your own MMOG / Virtual World very easily and allow players to play them, hosted on the Multiverse servers. The business model is simple: there are plenty of e-commerce tools Read more about Multiverse MMOG[…]
Ion Audio has a tape deck you can copy your casettes to PC with, for just under GBP 100,-. They also have a system that copies LPs to PC using the USB port.
Lit Fuse produce and direct several very nicely made machinima, of which War of Servers is perhaps best known. It’s a full length feature film. They also have some lovely short movies, such as Rusty Whispers Dennis. Very worth looking at.
The US is tackling the problem of jointness the right way. Jointness is used to describe operations in conjunction with another (or mulitple other) military arm(s) (such as Air Force coordinating with the Marines). The US has set up a Joint Qualification System which offers points depending on joint actions each officer has had in Read more about Joint Qualification for US Officers[…]
This is just bizarre. Built for foot fetishists with a twist… It gets much much weirder than this…
These 5 tools are the kind you probably didn’t know existed, but once you know about them you’ll want them added to your aresenal immediately. They aren’t particularly expensive, but very very useful.
By using electrodes to provide electricity thereby boosting signals inside the thalamus, a patient who after a traumatic head injury could only move his eyes and a finger slightly can now communicate, move and eat independently. This could revolutionarise how (near) comatose patients are treated.