011011 Ones + Zeros: Thought-Processing, Wireless Power, and Unique ID's
Posted by Ones_and_Zeros on Monday, Jan 10, 2011
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s daily investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet. Ones, you’ll come to expect, represent what’s “good” and zeros, what’s “bad.” Get more through our Facebook and Twitter.
1. Multitouch? How about multithought
One of the cooler techs showed off at the past weekend’s Consumer Electronics Show was a demonstration of thought-processing by InteraXon. Their crazy mind control technology works with a simple headset and iPad.
The headphones are equipped with a pair of sensors that sit against the user’s left ear and forehead, forming a circuit that gauges electrical signals occurring in the brain. The signals are relayed to the iPad through an attached Bluetooth dongle.
Alpha brainwaves increase as the player relaxes and beta waves jump while focusing. Getting good at Zenbound is thus not unlike playing golf, InteraXon chief executive Ariel Garten says.
1. Wireless power
Pretty straightforward in terms of human innovation: added convenience with very little drawback although with our track record, I’m sure we’ll find out decades down the road that it gives us brain herpes, studies might show, researchers could find, etc.
0. Apple and Verizon slap CES in the face
I suppose it’s telling when the biggest tech story of the week, days after the Consumer Electronics Show is about a smartphone that’s been out for months already, one that Consumer Magazine controversially told its readers not to buy. That’s the world we live in I guess. What do I care about: how much worse my service will get with this influx of p*ssed off AT&T customers.
0. Anonymous no more
There were rumblings over the weekend about Obama pushing through his proposal about unique Internet id’s for every American. Perhaps fears of a South Korean like setup where users typically need their social security number for simple site recognition are premature but it seems like a scary step forward indeed. What happens to groups like Anonymous?
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