This might actually become a viable reality, once we create the most important artificial organ of all- the brain.
I'm going to build this, and see if I can't use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit.
I would rip tracks off Sega Saturn discs and record them onto tapes (I didn’t have a CD burner back then). Wouldn’t mind adding those blasts from my past to my iTunes library.
Turn Your Rare and Homemade Cassette Tapes Into MP3s with Audacity [Music]Lifehacker
Cassette Tapes aren’t exactly the highest quality audio, but if you have a few rare tracks that you can’t buy on CD (or a few homemade cassettes you want to back up for posterity), CNET shows us how to easily record them to an MP3 file with Audacity. More »
And it was made by a college student, too. Very impressive.
Heartbeat visualizer lets your ticker power a light show (video)Engadget
It may look like something that’d be at home in iTunes, but this visualizer developed by NYU student Phan V is linked to something even more unique to you than your music collection. With the aid of a mic’d up stethoscope, it’s able to visualize a person’s heartbeat in a manner that has quite a bit more punch than the usual means — the person’s pulse rate determines the speed of the animation, while the volume of the heartbeat captured determines the brightness. Practical? Maybe not, but you can check it out in action in the video after the break.
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Who else would’ve come up with such crazy tech, especially so far ahead of their competitors? Sure, they’re still technically in the arcade hardware business, but that industry is a shadow of what it once was. Without a home console, SEGA can’t bring cutting-edge tech like 3D glasses to home audiences, a’la the most awesome game to play when drunk ever made?
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Hey! I'm Mike, this is my blog. and my dream is to use my middling tech skills to make the world a better place (not in the techno-libertarian, "the world is a better place if I get mine" sense, but in the actual, "I want to help" sense).
