Archive for January 13th, 2006
Wired had a great article on the search for Bolero through the ears of a cochlear implant user who used to be able to hear. PBS has a neat Scientific American Frontiers interactive that lets hearing people listen to what the world might ’sound’ like to someone with a cochlear implant. It’s amazing to hear the difference in quality from 4 channel to 22 channel. Of course, to a person who has never heard before, this weird garble might be all they’ve ever known, so while it may sound foreign and robotic to us, it is all they can understand. Though once they go through the first year of ‘tuning’ the device, I’m sure they start to detect and figure out the nuances in the changes each time the programming is modifyed by the audiologist. Perhaps my resident cochlear implant expert can chime in with her thoughts!
“When the device was turned on a month after surgery, the first sentence I heard sounded like ‘Zzzzzz szz szvizzz ur brfzzzzzz?’ My brain gradually learned how to interpret the alien signal. Before long, ‘Zzzzzz szz szvizzz ur brfzzzzzz?’ became ‘What did you have for breakfast?’”- from Wired
January 13th, 2006
The whole Million freakin’ pixels thing was pretty much woo hoo, isn’t that great , but this is much more interesting. Though the claims of making ‘internet history’ might be a tad inflated,
Fill My Room! is crazy enough to spread just as rapidly as the million pixels flu, but without the horrible ad phlegm & fever.
“Become part of internet history by helping me fill my room!
For every dollar you donate, I will add 1 block to the room!
I will not stop until my room is full!
Floor to ceiling! It’s up to you!”
January 13th, 2006
If you’re an aspiring Furby hacking, Mythbusters gadget makin’, take everything apart type of person, then you probably should have the bare minimum tools and resources necessary to DIY it. Check out the ten most needed tools for the electronics DIYer. “Duh!” items include a soldering iron and multimeter.
January 13th, 2006
This very graphics intensive video is fun to watch. More stuff in /this folder/
January 13th, 2006
Japanese camera and precision equipment maker Nikon said on Thursday it will focus on digital photography and stop producing most of its film cameras, except for a few professional photographer products. Read full article
January 13th, 2006
Well, what’s not to love about a Cyclops Kitty. A baby one eyed cat called “Cy” is obviously the most cute thing ever. So I threw together a t-shirt so you can proclaim your undying love for cyclops kitty. Click here for tshirt.
January 13th, 2006
No rhyme nor reason for this t-shirt design, except perhaps subliminal messages from the Lord and Master, Foamy the Squirrel. Though Foamy probably wouldn’t want to be ‘fished’ - he’d rather get in your face and say stuff like “Someone should stab you in the eye with a really hot french fry” and “I hope you choke on a biscotti” or maybe even “F*** YOU!!” What Foamy quote or phrase would you put on a shirt if you were a rabid foamy or germaine worshipper?
January 13th, 2006