Sega and NeuroSky To Make Mind-Controlled Toys
Sega and NeuroSky are uniting to make toys controlled by the power of thought.
NeuroSky is usually seen on the conference circuit as as a headset, clamped onto the player's beady-sweated pate, from where it monitors the electrical impulses within. Though it's quite limited — your Tetsuo-like mental concentration is measured as but a single axis — it provides a strange feeling of having a kind of "extra limb." Details on the Sega's new toys are not offered, unfortunately, so the end results are left to our imaginations.
Following our earlier coverage and hands-on review of NeuroSky (wherein I psychically crush my enemies in a Half-Life 2 mod) I have some ideas: how about a game where you have no actual weapon, but wander around and make people's heads explode by maxing out your brainwave focus bar? Oh, wait, kids' toys. I forget.
Where'd everybody go?
ION, New Horrifyingly Large, Poison-Spitting Snake Discovered
Researchers have identified a new species of spitting cobra in Kenya, one that is over nine feet long and has enough venom to "kill twenty people" according to an "expert" on the subject in this article on nationalgeographic.com.
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Experts used to link this brown cobra with its black spitting cobra cousins, but thanks to lab analysis of blood and tissue, they now have classified it as its own species. According to the National Geographic article, spitting cobras eat "eggs, carrion, snakes, lizards, birds, human babies, water buffalo, giraffes, and leopards."
It eats babies? Damn.
We can't talk to you any more. Our brains exploded.
Also, don't worry about the snake. It's only being discussed by an "expert."
Hiding from the spitting cobras.
Oh, go look at the jerboa pictures. Cute, nonthreatening and did I mention cute? [link]
I've got some mysterious brass statues that I now think are jerboas. Rodent looking things with ginormous ears. They are not represented as jumping, however, just standing there uprightish. I've got them watching over my cats' food dishes for what may very well be ironic effect.
That's great! I'd love to find something like that.
OK, a reappearance of the Civility Expert has once again made me hostile. I really wonder what it is about this guy that sets me off. I largely agree with him (and I'm pretty damned civil) and he sounds like a pleasent enough fellow. But I can't read or hear about him without feeling ill-tempered. It's just...odd.
Would this be an OK place to get started?
After lurking around quietly, I decided to take the plunge and join the fun.
Hi, all! I look forward to getting to know "everyone".
Is it Friday, yet???
