Humanity fail – Avatar makes people depressed

Apparently the inability to live as a 9 foot tall, blue, cat humping alien is driving some people to suicide.

James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

“Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na’vi made me want to be one of them. I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it,” Mike posted. “I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.’ “

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

Reverse Image Searching

In this form of searching, you upload an image, sketch or 3D object, and you get results based on where the image comes from, where else the image is placed and if (and where) there are similar images on the net.

Image Searchers:


TinEye
RevIMG
retrievr – search by sketch / search by image
Sauce Nao

3D Model Searchers:


Prinecton 3d model search engine (also for sketches)
an article about the Purdue sketch / 3D searcher
Im2GPS Estimates geographic information from a single image

keywords: pictures, photos

Concert Hands

The way this system works, is wrist straps on a rail guide your hands to the right place and then zap the finger with electricity to indicate that you should press it.

You load up the software with midi files and it’ll make you play it. I guess the idea is that if you build up repetitive memory, you can learn how to play the piano quickly this way.

Concert Hands.