g.tec launches ready-to-go brain computer interface kit

“We know what you’re thinking [1], how come no-one has made any of the various brain interface technologies out there into a commercial product? Well, your dream last night [2] took a step closer to becoming reality with the announcement of the “ready-to-go” g.BCIsys Brain-Computer interface kit by the German company g.tec. Out of the box, the BCIsys can play simple games and comes with a P300 spelling device which, with a little training, can read your thoughts and place single letters on a screen. Ok, so you’re not exactly going to want to throw away your QWERTY just yet, as the P300 can take as many as 20 “flashes” to correctly read the word that you’re thinking; nor should the weight conscious be concerned that Wii Sports will be moving back to the sofa just yet, as the only included game is Pong. Also, this system isn’t exactly what you’d call a commercial release (lets just say that g.tec’s distribution partners aren’t the “one click purchase” type). In fact, we can’t find any information about how much the kit costs, or even whether simpletons like us would be allowed to get their hands on one. Little steps, little steps.

1] No, we didn’t place one of the brain interface kits onto your head whilst you were sleeping: it’s just a turn of phrase …

[2] … honest!“

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inetWord

“You can edit documents and Web pages. It has all the capabilities you need and can replace expensive and troublesome desktop editors.”

This seems interesting, have a look. It doesn’t look that pretty, but it seems to work ok.

http://www.inetword.com/

OpenOffice.org

 

About
To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice.org is a free Office suite like Microsoft Office which has features to create documents such as: Text documents, spreadsheets, slide shows etc… Allowing users to be able to create those type of documents without having to pay for software.

Source Code
A page on the OpenOffice.org site allows the user to download the source code, as well as an add-on to OpenOffice.org it’s self for users to create add-ons. Click here for the page to get the files for the most stable version of OpenOffice.org.

Price
OpenOffice.org is a free download.

License
OpenOffice.org uses the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

The product has the affect of rapid development to help create more of a community to help compete with the more dominate product i.e. Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is attempting to be an alternative to the expensive applications.

Web 2.0

Merry Christmas.

Twlight Competition Photo.

For this competition: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/twilight/competition/index.php

I entered this image, cutting it fine on the last day.

I wish I had more time really, didn’t have long. I think it’s ok, I quite like it.

Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour

“At twilight, the colour and quality of light go through rapid and dramatic changes. For photographers, who are highly attuned to the subtleties of light, this is a particularly significant and poignant time. The artists in the exhibition have all made work that focuses on the end of the day and investigates twilight, as distinct from night.” 

I know its late posting this, as it ends on the 17th December

However I’m interesting by this, and hope to go there tomorrow.

URL: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/twilight/index.html

The Google Maps pushpin meets real life.

Aram Bartholl of Germany brings the default Google Maps pin marker to life in this cool little video clip he created. The project, titled “Map” zooms you down into a real location in Berlin as one of these map markers is constructed with plywood and fabric. Aram explains that “The size of the rebuilt red Marker in reality corresponds to the size of a marker in the web interface in max zoom factor of the map.”

Noah K. Everyday

“Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years

I find this piece very interesting. It shows 6 years of someones life in about 5 minutes, you can see him clearly age infront of you and how his life is changing with different places the pictures are taken from. You can tell if he has moved house or gone travelling by the sudden change of background.

I have seen other videos that do this concept, this is the best one I’ve seen because the others have not been for as long (time period) and the background is a white. I feel it’s more interesting to see the surroundings change as well as they do.

URL: http://www.noahkalina.com/ 

Google Code Search

 
Not sure if this is old news or whatnot. Just reading my .net magazine and had a small article about Google launching a search engine which searches code e.g. Java, PHP, Ajax etc…

Not really used it yet, it could be interesting to use. 

It’s still in the Google Labs, so beta version.

Also like the /* Code Search */ part on the logo, little things.

URL: http://www.google.com/codesearch