Read these interesting exerpts from Newyork times and though of sharing
Art & Science (NY title: Air-Index impressionism)
Scientists are trying to figure out pollution levels in 1900 using Monet's impressionist paintings during that time. They say, he accurately drew the light, color, clouds and sun position. It may give lot of scientific data for the period which has no statistics.
But some are little worried about Monet's affinity towards pink (which apparently he tend to use mildly in his paintings)
MIT Geeks (NY Title: Ambient Walkman)
Criticism: iPod/headphones tend to tune people out of surrounding completely. (isolated)
Vawter, Graduate student from MIT media lab, is designing a headphone which has mike & speaker. It takes the background noise and convert into acceptable music background (using DSP). He even think of converting the noise and matching to the music you are hearing.
**Geeks!!
Ballot - Lottery
If Osterloh from Arizona have his way, there will be more than one winner in the state elections.
Yes. He is suggesting to print lottery numbers on the ballot and pick a winners from the voters to increase the voter count.
And he suggested using state lottery unclaimed funds for this purpose.
***Some argue against it. I wonder why?
Booemrang Drone - Remote controlled spy plane.
Let me leave to fellow bloggers to guess what it is!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
From Newyork Times
Posted by BrainWaves at 9:38 AM
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3 comments:
I think the lottery is a wonderful idea.
In India, we probably cant implement the lottery scheme in votes. The election candidates themselves have the highest probability of winning (through kalla vottu..:))...or, even worse, someone who didnt vote in the first place..:)
I think the deriving pollution levels out of a Monet sounds a little far fetched...But then, who can refute their theory if they come up with one....
I think Bose's latest headphones does the other way. It cancels out all the surrounding noise and makes you feel like you are in an isolated place... Its price tag is around $300...
very interesting...i recently read a report which talked about a "air guitar t-shirt"...looks like the t shirt has some sensors that when ur wearing it and start imaginary guitar playing it will produce the sounds...thought that was funny but would be interesting to check out...made in australiaa...
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