The Future, Now!

I love it, the future I've been daydreaming for over a decade is finally coming true.

Go read this article over at Technology Review.

A speaker array that would be able to project audio at a single person in a room while keeping the rest of the room quiet. I've been imagining exactly this kind of stuff for years, and I'm glad that people are finally getting around to it. It's about damn time, now where is my jetpack.

Seriously, there are numerous applications for tech like this. This would be a boon to office spaces everywhere. Listen to your music, headphone free without annoying you co-workers. Not to mention the pranks you could pull with it before the technology reaches the mainstream.

Now we just need the rest of my daydreams to come true...

Now I Know What the Class Pet Felt Like

This is a Giga Ball. It is a giant, inflatable ball that you can climb in, and roll around. A giant inflatable hamster ball. They have one for kids, and now one for adults.

Is it bad that I want one of these?

Don't you?

Ebedded Without Comment

(Except to say that, in my quest to bring you awesome things, this is worth seeing)

(And by "you" I mean all my non-readers)

(Also, I stole this bit from Eric Burns at Websnark)

(Which is where I found this animation)

(Because this is just a blog of regurgitation and musing)

(Like my own collection of things that warp my brain and make me say "oooooh")

(Hence the embedded video)

(Which is awesome)



[via Websnark]

Hot Stuff

Call it Trial by Fire, call it an adrenaline rush, call it flamethrowers to the face:

It's Dance Dance Immolation! Sort of an art project meets extreme gaming meets an arsonists wet dream.

I don't think that I could stand the heat of this game. I mean, I start to screw up a little in regular DDR and I have a hell of a time recovering. Imagine trying to pump your score up while jets of flame are roaring around your firesuit-cocooned head.

That's just nuts!

[via Wonderland]

Renewing

I upgraded to Blogger in Beta just about as soon as I could. The reason? I suppose that I wanted to make sure I had the newest features. The best of the best. I then proceded to do nothing. I didn't upgrade my layout. I didn't do much of anything. Hell, I barely post at all.

I need to re-organize my main blog roll. Heck, clearing up my reader and bookmarks would be a feat worthy of praise. But I wanted to test the new layout functions. Out comes the old, purposeless blog. Clickety-click.

Wow... nifty!

New look, new features. Went back and added lables to the old posts. Which means I had to read the old posts.

It's amazing how far I feel I've come in a rather short year and a half (or so) since I began this blog.

I got married. I started a much more serious blog. I programmed a game for a competition. I bought a DS Lite. My wife bought a PS2. My brother moved in so he could go to the University College down the street.

It's weird, looking back. I feel so much older and more confident. I read my old posts and I can hear a much younger me talking. It hasn't been all that long, but it has been intense.

So this blog? It gets to be the lab rat. And maybe, if it is good, I'll post some more stuff here.