Breakfast Links: Hi-tech Edition
Ok, guys and gals… the future is now! Wait, no… it’s… Now!
Check it - now they got some kinda neckband that somehow taps all up into the nerve signals to your vocal chords. So you can kinda think real, real hard about saying something, but don’t actually say it and this thing can pick it up and send it to a puter that can do the saying for you. That’s pretty bad ass, right? There’s even a really boring video of it. So far it has a specific vocabulary that it understands, but they are working on making that mo’ betta. Still wierd, right? It can breathe life back into that sitcom standby, “Did I just say that out loud?” Which should, in general, be the sole purpose of high technology as far as I’m concerned. Better jokes.
Way less boringly is this laser defense system that Israel and the US were cooking up. Well, a town in Israel is suing their government for not installing it in their town (which comes under attack periodically, apparently). The problem is that the two governments actually abandoned the reasonably successful program because the chemicals required to power the laser were too toxic for it’s own good. You know it’s gotta be bad if they have a working prototype! But I mean… don’t they know? It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix?? Like lazing a stick of dynamite?? Sigh. There is a non-boring (for a little while) video of this, too.
And finally some European company is working on RobuCab - a little vehicle that drives itself along the mean streets of Paris. But don’t get your hopes up yet, it’s awhile before we get Total Recall style RobuCabs, but they’re working on it. Sadly, there’s no video of this bad boy - but I imagine you can imagine what a golf cart looks like bustling along a road at about 10kph.
BONUS LINK: If you were sad that Fuji was going to kill Polaroid instant film now you can do something about it. You have been informed.
