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VirtuSphere: The Virtual Reality Hamster Ball | Gadget Lab
We’ve always loved the thought of virtual reality, but the real reality of commercially available VR hardware has always been so, well, ridiculous that it’s hard to get too worked up about it most of the time. Most VR systems limit you to a set of massive goggles and some kind of enormous glove that you use to control the virtual world. So as long as you just stand still and wave your arm around, you might find the experience immersive. But overall, VR has been a concept awaiting the right technology. We can’t say whether the VirtuSphere is the technology we’ve all been waiting for — but if you’ve always wanted to run around a digitized universe while encased in a gigantic hamster ball, this might be the technology you’ve been waiting for. [Via Gizmag]
Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties. Emergence is central in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For instance, the phenomenon life as studied in biology is commonly perceived as an emergent property of interacting molecules as studied in chemistry, whose phenomena reflect interactions among elementary particles, modeled in particle physics, that at such higher mass—via substantial conglomeration—exhibit motion as modeled in gravitational physics. Neurobiological phenomena are often presumed to suffice as the underlying basis of psychological phenomena, whereby economic phenomena are in turn presumed to principally emerge. In philosophy, emergence typically refers to emergentism. In philosophy[edit] Main article: Emergentism Definitions[edit] Strong and weak emergence[edit]
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects. There are about 439 languages and dialects, according to the 2009 Ethnologue estimate, about half (221) belonging to the Indo-Aryan subbranch.[2] It includes most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian Subcontinent, and was also predominant in ancient Anatolia. With written attestations appearing since the Bronze Age in the form of the Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the second-longest recorded history, after the Afro-Asiatic family. Indo-European languages are spoken by almost 3 billion native speakers,[3] the largest number by far for any recognised language family. Etymology[edit] History of Indo-European linguistics[edit] Franz Bopp, pioneer in the field of comparative linguistic studies. Gaston Coeurdoux and others made observations of the same type.
Creative Nerd AWESOME
This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout
What are Complex Adaptive Systems?
Cause and Effect For many years scientists saw the universe as a linear place. One where simple rules of cause and effect apply. However hard they tried to find the missing components to complete the picture they failed. Complexity Theory Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory, A theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. Complex Adaptive Systems These can be illustrated as in the following diagram. The agents in the system are all the components of that system. For clarity, in the diagram above the regularities, pattern and feedback are shown outside the system but in reality they are all intrinsic parts of the system. Properties Complex adaptive systems have many properties and the most important are, · Emergence: Rather than being planned or controlled the agents in the system interact in apparently random ways. · Requisite Variety: The greater the variety within the system the stronger it is.
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home archive categories login sign up contact glumbert or Shift Happens Send to a Friend Digg This! Stumble It Share on Facebook More sharing options Views: 3,907,712 First: surferbum22 By Karl Fisch Comments (297) Hide Comments Post a Comment sisley 5 years ago Does anybody know the title of the background music? skatequeen Not sure what it's called, but I think it's from the movie The Ghost danielrhodes The music is from the soundtrack for The Last of the Mohicans Thanks! It's song "Elk Hunt" from The Last of the Mohicans. Thanks very much! mustangchick72 It is from the movie the Last of the Mohicans...I love that soundtrack. It's called the kiss...not elk hunt. alane I hate to say this but if even the population growth rates are correct, which they are most likely, then all of us college age people are going to have a rough time cutting out a future for this country. bbs53 modfather1965 Yes, Mohicans soundtrack... rosedenose Do you not realize that these same things are going on in America? yocalu fisrar 4 years ago lee
