Hard to believe that the average self-important New Yorker would give Cincinnati a second thought, but I am glad that the New York Times did the write up that they did on visiting Cincinnati.
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Interesting research and demos of wearable computing and speculation that it might ‘blow mobile phones away’. While the demos are cool, I think the practicality of it remains to be seen. It seems that just like voice recognition was going to make it so much easier to interact with desktop computers (it didn’t) that a lot is being invested in these gesture-based systems that probably will struggle to work outside the lab in ‘real world’ conditions (variable light, no fixed background, uncontrolled contrast, etc).
It will be fun to see how this develops over time but I am not anticipating anything useful in the next few years.
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I guess with tattoos and piercings becoming increasingly common, you have to look elsewhere for a new way to disfigure yourself. In Japan, this can be achieved through saline injections. Warning: the photos can be quite disturbing to some.
Picture the scene: five people, each with hideously distorted heads, tubes sticking into their faces. Reminiscent of a medical experiment gone hideously wrong, you’d be forgiven for thinking they had a gross infection or disease. They look like alien abductees, fresh from invasive research by their interplanetary masters. But these are Japanese club kids, otherwise known as bagelheads, deliberately disfiguring themselves by experimenting with saline inflations.
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