Category: Computers

Augmented-reality in Real Time

The real application for this technology would be to be able to walk around your office at work with a camera, feed the video into a computer, and then sit down to play a Counterstrike game set in your workplace.
-Greg
Augmented-reality machine works in real time
I can see this being handy as a mapping system while walking around in a city. You could ask it where the nearest subway station was and all you would have to do it follow the big arrows floating in the sky or look for the glowing building. Cool. Thanks Greg!

Piracy Rampant at Redmond!

Apple iPod, Destroyer of Worlds
I am so amused about this story, about 80% of people on the Microsoft main campus in Redmond use an iPod to listen to music. That just makes sense, they get paid ungodly amounts of cash for what they do and thus have loads of disposable income. It’s a total no-brainer that they would own iPods. However, I am surprised that there isn’t some sort of rule about hiring pirates. Yes, if you will remember, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO, aka, Gate’s Monster) stated that “… The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen'” So with that logic 80% of employees at the Redmond campus are thieves. Humm… Good thing that the iPods don’t support firewire connections on a PC, if it did you might have people dropping CD images on to them and getting away with real piracy. I wonder if you lose your soda rights if you are caught plugging in your iPod to a USB port while at work.
Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
iPod users are music thieves says Ballmer

Falcon Case Mod

This has been posted to Boing Boing but it’s just so cool I had to make note of it myself. He’s selling it on eBay, but his opening price of $800 Pounds is a biy high if you ask me.
Falcon PC