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Author: David Wright

The Wonders of Haptics

Posted on April 26, 2010April 26, 2010 by David Wright

Not all is how it feels…

Immersion, a company in San Jose, California, is attempting to push haptics further. In a system planned for later this year, users will be given the tactile illusion that touchscreen buttons protrude from the surface.

more here

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The Wonders of Haptics

Posted on April 26, 2010April 26, 2010 by David Wright

Not all is how it feels…

Immersion, a company in San Jose, California, is attempting to push haptics further. In a system planned for later this year, users will be given the tactile illusion that touchscreen buttons protrude from the surface.

more here

Posted in Uncategorized

One Facebook to rule them all

Posted on April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 by David Wright

the quote:

Data is everything in the 21st century. Who ever has more data wins the Internet, and I don’t trust Facebook with that kind of scale and power.

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A Hero of Our Time

Posted on April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 by David Wright

hilarious

Carroll, 23, says he lived like a Roman emperor, spending £10,000 A WEEK on depraved, 24-hour cocaine and sex parties at his Norfolk mansion, The Grange.

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Nobody works during the word cup

Posted on April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 by David Wright

barker again

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Money Buys Happiness

Posted on April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 by David Wright

Only if you don’t earn it, though.

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Athletes are Geniuses

Posted on April 21, 2010 by David Wright

Athletes may perform better than the rest of us because their brains can find better solutions than ours do.

more here

And practice still makes perfect.

Nurture wins.

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Fat People Owe More

Posted on April 21, 2010April 21, 2010 by David Wright

Heavy one here.

So how does the causation run? Surely there’s another variable in there somewhere…

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(Virtual) Suicide Machine

Posted on April 21, 2010April 21, 2010 by David Wright

You can finally unplug:

Since its Dec. 19 launch, Suicide Machine has assisted more than 1,000 virtual deaths, severing more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook and removing some 276,000 tweets from Twitter.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954631,00.html#ixzz0ljxquNUC
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What’s Bigger than a Supernova?

Posted on April 21, 2010April 21, 2010 by David Wright

A Hypernova, of course.

What’s next in the Greek/Latin size hierarchy?

Posted in science

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