Adpot Sony's virtual EyePet. Why bother with a messy 'pooping-peeing' house pet like a dog or cat, when adopting a virtual EyePet from Sony is much easier and cleaner. That's right folks! Available November 17, PlayStation 3 owners can own EyePet exclusively via Sony's PlayStation Eye (PS Eye) without all the parenting responsibilities. Playable through PS Eye, foster parents can interact with EyePet, which responds to physical movement, "pet him and he will pur, tickle him and he will laugh, roll a ball to him and he will chase it," reports Erin English, Product Marketing Manager.
Sony's EyePet resembles a four-legged, monkey-human-dog creature. Slightly freakish to our eyes, EyePet is completely customizable "letting you modify fur length, color and pattern, as well as the ability to outfit [EyePet] with more than 250 unique collectible items," says English. EyePet also interacts with tangible products inside your living room. Will you be adopting EyePet as a holiday gift? Events diary. Long Now: Projects: Clock. The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready.
The essay below by Long Now board member Kevin Kelly discusses what we hope the Clock will be once complete. This is one of several projects by Long Now to foster long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years. by Kevin Kelly There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Is around to hear it. The Clock is real.
The Clock is now being machined and assembled in California and Seattle. The Clock’s inventor introduced the idea of the Clock (in 01995) with this context: I cannot imagine the future, but I care about it. That’s Danny Hillis, a polymath inventor, computer engineer, and designer, inventor and prime genius of the Clock. The dot of light beckons you. » 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode | Crack.
Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive 55 minutes inside Microsoft Res. Everytime I watch one of my own videos I see something that I could improve. We spent half a day at Microsoft Research’s new building getting a video tour of the new building. Kevin Schofield, General Manager, gave us an awesome tour and introduced us to several of Microsoft’s smartest people. This video is the result. One problem: it’s way too long. Pretty interesting stuff in there, if you hang out for the 55 minutes, but it would have been better to chop it up to its component parts, rather than try to run it all together.
Actually doing that would help us with Google, too. So, what are the atoms? Atom One: 00:00-2:55 Kevin Schofield giving us an introduction to the building. Atom Two: 2:55 – 06:57 Martha Clarkson, who helped design parts of the building, explains some of the innovations in the building (and there are many) Atom Four: 19:59-30:07 Kevin Schofield continues his tour, showing us several things in the building that the researchers themselves helped design.