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http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/

dallaway.com: sloppy websnapr

Sloppy - the slow proxy for dial-up modem speed simulation (slow down)
>30 days ago by rchk, 2 Users, more info save
http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/

Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale websnapr

"... the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propag
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/06/evolving_virtua.html

Evolving Virtual Organisms to create Virtual Life websnapr

"Can you imagine the day when turning off your computer is considered murder?" This is shaping up to be a hot topic.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/06/cb2-baby-humanoid-robot/

CB2 baby humanoid robot websnapr

"...it is designed to function as a 1- to 2-year-old child, gazing intently at its surroundings, squirming about on the floor and lighting up the room with child-like charm." Too freaky for
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-06/st_insane

Virtual Hallucinating Device Drives Police Insane for a ... websnapr

"The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic." The street will find its own use for thi
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/04/the_early_signs_of_the_long_to.html

IBM performs computer simulation of mouse brain-substra ... websnapr

"IBM researchers [...] assembled a simulated mouse cortical hemisphere (that is, a functional half of a mouse brain) on one of the smaller BlueGene/L supercomputers. They then ran the simulation.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/04/20/second-life-sketches-from-hells-kitchen-to-dune/

Second Life Sketches: From Hell’s Kitchen to Dune websnapr

"I ducked back into the subway just as a 4X4 vehicle the size of a small house roared up the hill into the junction and ran over a dozen people." Warren Ellis reports from the metaverse fron
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2016519,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=20

Virtual war helps US soldiers deal with trauma websnapr

"A "virtual Iraq" simulation that allows soldiers to re-live and confront psychological trauma has produced promising results for the initial handful of patients treated using the syste
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070215111454.htm

Open Source Software Toolkit Plays Key Role In New Clim ... websnapr

"The Model Coupling Toolkit created by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory played a key role in the climate simulations used in preparing the new U.N. report..." Chal
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18164&ch=infotech

Building the Cortex in Silicon websnapr

"The man-made brain could help scientists understand how the most recently evolved part of our brain performs its complex computational feats, allowing us to understand language, recognize faces,
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10783&feedid=online-news_rss20

DNA-like ice 'seen' inside carbon nanotubes websnapr

"Nanoscale ice formations resembling the double helices of DNA will form when water molecules are frozen inside carbon nanotubes, detailed computer simulations suggest." No hints as to what
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.spacetimetravel.org/tuebingen/tue0.html

Through the city at nearly the speed of light websnapr

"Driving at nearly the speed of light? Impossible in real life, but feasible in a computer simulation: A tour through the city centre of Tübingen illustrates what we should see when moving at suc
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.tinmith.net

Tinmith Augmented Reality Project - Wearable Computer L ... websnapr

"Augmented reality (AR) is the registration of projected computer-generated images over a user’s view of the physical world." Okay, now try scoffing at the idea of wearable computers. Via OK
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 3 Users, more info save
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56450

Empire Building in the Golden Age of Railroads websnapr

"Sid Meier's 1990 DOS game Railroad Tycoon has been released as a free download." w00t! I was a serious junky for that game back in the day - I know what I'm doing over the holidays now!
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6136546.stm

Scientists create artificial gut websnapr

"The device, made from sophisticated plastics and metals, can withstand the corrosive gut acids and enzymes, and can be fed real food. It mimics both the physical and chemical reactions that take
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.physorg.com/news82649376.html

SimCity for real websnapr

"Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play 'SimCity' for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonym
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72093-0.html?tw=rss.index

Orson Scott Card Builds an Empire websnapr

"While Card's writing fueled classic LucasArts games The Dig and The Secret of Monkey Island, his latest book, Empire, is part of a multiformat franchise that was conceived from the ground up for
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.primidi.com/2006/11/03.html#a1666

Haptic simulation of virtual textiles websnapr

"It is easy to choose colors and sizes of clothes on many websites, but it's impossible to touch the material. So, European scientists are using [...] haptic simulation, to reproduce the sense of
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
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