http://www.ted.com Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.

Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote by Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The grid software is a custom program written using a C# wiimote library and DirectX. More information about the grid software can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

From engadget:

It’s the Wii laptop! We spent the last few weeks (including much time spent over the holidays evading relatives) slaving over this bad boy and finally it’s complete. Check out the features:

* 16:9 widescreen LCD, 7-inch diagonal.
* Stereo sound
* Gamecube controller port
* Built-in short range Sensor Bar
* Ports for using original Sensor Bar and A/V output jacks (for use on external display)
* Built-in power supply and compartment for power cord
* Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.7 x 2-inches

Starting next Tuesday we’ll be doing a multi-part How-To with detailed instructions for building your own Wii laptop, as well as loads of photos of the construction process. But for now check out the gallery for more detailed photos of the unit, and click on to see some video of the Wii laptop in action.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/the-wii-laptop/

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net

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This is a video I made, describing a little about every Video Game console in The Playstation Series. It includes the Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation X, Pocket Station and Playstation Portable. I include pictures of each of them, since some are rare. PSX was only released in Japan due to low sales, and PocketStation was only released in Japan and had a very limited launch in United Kingdom. Watch, is a very interesting video. I also include the competitor of the consoles.

Folklore review on IGN. Folklore is an action/adventure game by Kouji Okada (the father of the Shin Megami Tensei series) that takes you through seven mysterious and yet Earth-like worlds. The game features two main characters. Ellen, a troubled young woman searching for answers to her past, receives a letter from her mom: a person who died when she was a child. The letter says “I want to meet you,” and suggests that Ellen go to the town of Doolin. There, she meets Keats, a journalist who handles the occult corner of a magazine. He receives a phone call from an unknown girl asking for help. When he gets to Doolin, he finds that the girl has already been killed, and decides to start up an investigation.

Noted scientist Stephen Wolfram shares his perspective of how the unexpected results of simple computer experiments have forced him to consider a whole new way of looking at processes in our universe. Series: “Frontiers of Knowledge” [4/2003] [Science] [Show ID: 7153]

Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it It works for videos as well – you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.

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News Story in the Stanford Report:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/november12/video-111208.html

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Barack Obama gets asked a computer science question by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Canine computer geniuses and kittens catching computer mice! This week Josh brings us the most tech-savvy pets on the internet! Some may call them nerdy or nerdy, but we call them CUTE!

Thanks to all of the cute puppies, funny cats, and other geeky pets featured in this episode: Enid, Keyboard Kitty, Robot, Jeppa1, mjc818, SJ Klein, Fumi Yamazaki, Laporte48, danibooflorence, arreye318, sbahrin, 8skinnypigs, srent5, superdempo, laninfablu, watsuman, lyss820, demonesque, Bm0n3y93, Baby, jeole, gshoes04, ecaliskan78.

If you’re over age 40 and successfully watching this, you’ve already won.

Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the very first iPod at a low key event in 2001. The rest is history.

READ ME! In this video, you will learn how to make solid water balls BUT you will need many chemical substances. If you cannot afford these chemical substances, do NOT leave bad comments!

this guide will show you how to add or upgrade the RAM to your computer

This is a tutorial on how to send pictures and ringtones from your computer to a cell phone. Its really easy, free, and quick!!

Please rate and comment if you used this and found it helpful!

Second video in the four part miniseries about compiling a new kernel.

A four part miniseries on compiling a new kernel in a debian-based distro.

The condensed version of this tutorial, all of this is explained in depth in the video:
1.wget recentkernel source from “ftp.kernel.org”
2.extract kernel source in /usr/src “tar jxvf linux-2.6.xx.tar.bz2″
3. grab a patch, if desired.
3a. apply patch “cd /usr/src/li* && bzip2 -dc ../patchdiff.bz2 | patch -p1 –dry-run”
3b. if dry run patch succeeds, repeat process omiting –dry-run
4. copy current kernel config (if you want a decent base, if you want to build vanilla, omit this step) “cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config”
5. “make menuconfig”, load your config, and tweak as desired.
6. “make all”
7. “make modules_install”
8. “make install”
9. use mkinitrd.yaird or mkinitramfs, or whatever initrd generator you use to create a initrd for your kernel with “mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd-2.6.xx 2.6.xx” (where xx is the new kernel version)
10. update your grub config in /boot/grub/menu.list or do “update-grub” as root.
11. reboot into your new system.

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Rodney, what computer components do you have in your personal computer system? Link to system: http://www.3dgameman.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2977

RODNEY’S COMPUTER SYSTEM COMPONENTS:
Case: Silverstone TJ07 (Black)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Quattro 850W
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-T Deluxe
CPU: Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz Socket 775
Memory: G.SKILL DDR2 PC2-8800 4GB Memory Kit
Water Cooling: Swiftech H20-120 Premium
Video Card: 2 x 8800GTX. One EVGA 8800GTX & BFG 8800GTX OC WC Video Card
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Hard Drives: Western Digital Raptor X 150GB (RAID 0)
DVD Burner: Plextor PX-755SA
Floppy Drive: 1.44MB FD (Black)
Keyboard: Hiper HCK-1K18A Black Aluminum
Mouse: Razer Copperhead
Mouse Pad: Razer Mantis Mat
Display: BenQ FP241VW 24″ LCD
Audio System: Pioneer VSX-D209 5.1 Receiver, Cerwin Vega HT-S10A Sub and Speakers (Polk Audio RTi4 for front, Polk Audio R15 for rear and Cerwin Vega E-75C for center channel)
Headset: SteelSeries SteelSound 5H v2
Router: D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit
Flash Drive: 2GB Crucial Gizmo Overdrive USB2
UPS: Ultra 1200W Backup
Operating Systems: Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)

Charlie Brooker Reports On The History Of Computer Gaming