A week or so back I read a post over on the Cybergate9 blog (Link) and was tempted to jump in with a comment. But I was busy. Soon after I happened across a post on 3pointD (Link) and got off a short comment, but didn’t have time to follow it up because it was really the same thing as the other comment, which was actually an extension of a comment I’d previously made on Cybergate9 (Link) and have also brought up somewhere on here before (probably around the time of the Multiverse announcement). Confused yet?

Well, here’s the thought I’ve been recently incubating: Linden Lab is already planning another virtual platform {or rather an upgrade version of their current platform}. Here’s why I’m thinking this:
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Here’s one of those things I’ve always wanted to try: a video camera-equipped RC model airplane. But this goes one better by using VR goggles and a gyroscopically-mounted lens that moves in sync to the goggles. Sweet. Imagine this with a HUD that included Google Earth information overlaid on top of landmarks (real or imagined).

Now it just needs some water balloons…

via Gizmodo

This is my 1000th post. The numbers are a little off due to some pebkac problems early on, but that’s what the software tells me. So I figure this is as good a time as any to begin to finish this entry, #551. I say “begin to finish” because I’m thinking that there might be a few different issues under the heading of “Intangible Mindset” that I’ll raise in the coming weeks. I started on one idea, but got to thinking much more broadly as I was writing (which is what initially stopped me). Hopefully those other topics will more quickly gel in my mind so they don’t take as long as this one did. For now though, here’s the text of what I had originally started to post:
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I’ve been waiting for this. Ever since Vik posted his entry showing the first part fabbed by his latest RepRap device, Zaphod (see earlier entry for a video of it in operation – reLink). That part wasn’t looking very useable, but now comes word of a RepRap-fabbed part that has been integrated into the device (Link). It’s not much to look at, but then one has to start somewhere.

Too bad Neuros isn’t as open source as RepRap. Maybe we need a Ministry for Degrees of Open Sourceness, huh?

{Image Copyright © 2006 Vik Olliver}

Some years ago I was in a car accident; nothing too severe. The doctors at first told me that my back problems were a result of muscular damage and that with some physical therapy I’d be fine. They were wrong. About a year after the accident, while still going through therapy, pressure was applied directly to a spot on my vertebrae and I went through the roof. That ended my physical therapy and sent me back to the doctor who then recommended I get an MRI.

Being naturally curious I decided to research the device, and learned that what that big cylinder of magnets is doing is turning a person’s body into a kind of radio station. Continue reading →