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  • Google Glass’ Lead Electrical Engineer Adrian Wong Defects To Oculus

    Interesting news to hear this Google Glass engineer is jumping ship to join Oculus. Now that is very interesting. I wouldn’t blame anyone who would join up with Oculus, I think it will have a much more outrageously creative future over the lighter weight wearable stuff from Google.

  • PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone

    Here’s my latest DIY project, a smartphone based on a Raspberry Pi. It’s called – wait for it – the PiPhone. It makes use an Adafruit touchscreen interface and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module to make phone calls. via PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone. Dave Hunt doesn’t just do photography, he’s a Maker through and…

  • Report: NSA intercepts US-made servers heading overseas to install surveillance hooks

    Originally posted on Gigaom: According to NSA expert and former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide, the NSA has intercepted servers and routers from U.S. manufacturers in the delivery process in order to install tracking gear. In a Guardian excerpt from the book, which comes out tomorrow, Greenwald highlighted a June…

  • Google Glass teardown puts rock-bottom price on hardware • The Register

    A teardown report on Google Glass is raising eyebrows over suggestions that the augmented reality headset costs as little as $80 to produce. via Google Glass teardown puts rock-bottom price on hardware • The Register. One more reason to not be a Glasshole is you don’t want to be a sucker. Given what the Oculus…

  • Epson Moverio BT-200 AR Glasses In Person, Hands On

    Even Moverio’s less powerful (compared to VR displays) head tracking would make something like Google Glass overheat, McCracken said, which is why Glass input is primarily voice command or a physical touch. McCracken, who has developed for Glass, said that more advanced uses can only be accomplished with something more powerful. via Epson Moverio BT-200…

  • The Neurogrid – What It Is and What It Is Not

    More info on the Neurogrid massively parallel computer. Comparing it to other AI experiments in modeling individual neurons is apt. I compare it to Danny Hillis’s The Connection Machine (TMC) which used ~65k individual 1 bit processors to model neurons. It was a great idea, and experiment, but it never quite got very far into…

  • Corning Announces Availability of USB 3.Optical Cables

    Currently available in lengths of 10 meters, Corning will also be releasing USB 3.Optical cables of 15 and 30 meters later this year.  These cables can be purchased online at Amazon and Accu-Tech. via Corning Announces Availability of USB 3.Optical Cables. As I’ve had to deal with using webcams stretched across very long distances in…

  • Eye Tracking With The Oculus Rift

    Now THAT is amazing, but not out of the question either. Why can’t you do eye tracking with an Oculus Rift? How much more hardware and extra calibration steps would you need to do data collection like this? Seems like a great value add for folks doing Brain and Cognitive Science research with 3D test…

  • ‘Gods’ Make Comeback at Toyota as Humans Steal Jobs From Robots – Bloomberg

    “We need to become more solid and get back to basics, to sharpen our manual skills and further develop them,” said Kawai, a half century-long company veteran tapped by President Akio Toyoda to promote craftsmanship at Toyota’s plants. “When I was a novice, experienced masters used to be called gods, and they could make anything.”…

  • Revolutionary computers are on the way. Now we just need to know how to program them

    Originally posted on Gigaom: A team of Stanford scientists has created a circuit board, dubbed “NeuroGrid,” consisting of 16 computing cores that simulate more than 1 million neurons and billion of synapses. They think it could be mass produced for about $400 per board, meaning it would be economically feasible to embed the boards into…