Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Universal Remote

By Priya Ganapati August 14, 2009

Stock up on coasters. A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights.

CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a research project in user interface that attempts to create a natural way of connecting with devices. The system offers a streaming video view of the living room on a tabletop, so users can can walk up to it, see the layout of the room and interact with the TV or the photo frame.

“We wanted a social aspect to activities such as choosing what to watch on TV and we wanted to make the process easy and intuitive,” says Stacey Scott, assistant profess [From Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Universal Remote | Gadget Lab | Wired.com]

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Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space

By Betsy Mason August 11, 2009

The Manicougan Crater in northern Canada is one of the largest impact craters known on Earth. The impact occurred around 210 million years ago at the end of the Triassic period and may have caused a mass extinction that killed around 60 percent of all species. Though the crater has mostly eroded, Lake Manicougan outlines what is left of the 43-mile wide impact structure. The asteroid that created the crater is thought to have been about three miles wide. Today the lake is a reservoir and popular salmon fishing location. [From Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com]

Listening to: Watermelon Man from the album “The Essential” by Herbie Hancock

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You simply submit your slogan and other bozos vote for your it. I say bozos because no one seems to like mine.

Not that I’m bitter at all. I’m just misunderstood dammit.

TypeTees – T-shirt: Zombies only want you for your brain.

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No one seemed to notice that it wasn’t that good so he submitted it to the fan site of Chuck Palahniuk (the author of the book that the film was based on). Apparently they also didn’t twig that it wasn’t a work of genius and put it up on their website. There it stands until this very day where it was discovered when I was checking out whether bing.com was any good or not. I’m not sure I like Bing.com but I like the fact that an essay that I wrote 7 years ago is still online.

A link to the website is below.

Fan Papers | The Cult.

I’m hosting the paper for my own good self here

Fight for Self

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As a great man once said it’s gonna be the future soon.

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