Mood music
I just realized I've been working for the past hour with the Fable website's music looping in the background. A very nice loop. It reminds me of Robyn Miller's work on the Myst soundtrack.
Posted by Keith at 06:30 AM
Fable
Fable may just be the game which gets me to break down and buy an X-Box. In any case, the game's website is a most excellent use of Flash. You gotta love the book pull-tabs.
Posted by Keith at 05:44 AM
A Gambeboy media player?
Ok, ok. I admit the E-Reader and Gamecube connector were pushing the envelope a bit for truely "useful" Gameboy Advance accessories, but a movie/media player?It appears to be an unlicensed product too. Appologies in advance for 1UP's add-filled monstrosity of a web page.
Posted by Keith at 04:13 AM
Flowers as land mine detectors
(via Slashdot via Yahoo)
Aresa has developed a genetic hybrid flower which is shaded red in the presence of certain chemicals. Most notably, it can detect extremely low concentrations of chemicals leeched into the soil due to explosive compounds found in most common land mines. IF this 'works as advertised' it will be quite impressive.
Detecting land-mines is hard.
Landmines are littered on almost every modern battlefied--especially in the third world.
I helped out in the mid 80's on some of the first radar-based attempts to do reliable land-mine detection. It didn't work so well. We even tried using neural-networks to filter the back-scatter--with little success.
It's soooo Veridian.
Bruce Sterling would be proud.
Posted by Keith at 08:29 PM