SHUUUUUT UUUUUP!!!!
How many of you remember Cheech and Chong’s Sister Mary Elephant’s Unique Classroom Control Technique ? Now it seems that Japanese scientists have invented a new gun for those of us less endowed teachers. The “SpeechJammer” gun can silence people over 30 meters away (about 98 feet). It works by echoing the persons speech back at them withing 0.2 seconds. This apparently makes the speaker start stuttering.
I can think of several people and places I’d like to try this.
For one, wouldn’t it be great to use it when the Browns play the Steelers? 
Google’s New Non-Privacy Policy
This may be a dollar short and a day late, but Google’s new privacy policy is now in effect. Basically the new policy says Google can do just about anything it wants with your data.
To Opt out:
1) Log into your Google account.
2) Locate your username in the upper right corner and click on it.
3) Click on the “Services Section”
4) I deleted my entire profile from here. Hope Google still allows you to do this.
5) Then click on “Go to Web History”
6) Pause your web history
7) click on the check box and the click on “Remove all History”.
Now stop using Google Chrome and download Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla is much more concerned with your privacy than Google is.
FTL Results May Be Due To Faulty Cable At OPERA
Although experimental error was always the way to bet, I’m saddened to report it appears the CERN experiment that had neutrinos arriving 60 nanoseconds before they were sent may have actually been caused by a faulty fiber-optics link to the GPS signal that provided the syncing clock signals.
Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results May Be Due to Bad Cables
Oh well, for awhile the universe was closer than we thought.
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Art Show at Our Shelby Campus
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Digital Media Assistant Professor Lynn Damberger says “I will have 28 students with their artwork on display. This is our largest group ever, double what we had last year.”
Stop by on March 1st, meet our students and enjoy some amazing artistic talent.
Directions to the Kehoe Center
NCSC Digital Arts Entrepreneurs
Take a second to read what one of our Digital Arts students is doing: Starting his own business with 2 friends! Read the News Journal Article here.
Please visit their website at: http://www.threesixdclothing.com/
Also check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThreeSixD
Twit or Tweet?
TWIT.TV covers all sorts of technology news and topics. Click in and check out the topics.
Occasionally, I let it run in the background since it’s mostly “Talk Tv” on the web.
250th post!!!!
This is my 250th post for the NCSC Technology Department!!!
Today’s a “Bragging Rights” day. My post of Feb. 3 on the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP lab developing swarming quad-rotor helicopters beat Robotics Trends Insights emagazine’s publication by 3 DAYS!!!! (Click on their “
Ride of the Valkeries” video at the top of the page.)
The iPhone, Star Trek and $10,000,000
What does an iPhone, Star Trek’s Tricorder and blood samples have to do with this year’s X-prize of 10 million dollars? Researchers at the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea are bleeding and spitting on capacitive touch screens to determine what they can analyse from the sample. They hope to be able to identify cancer cells, blood serum, and many other afflictions from spittum, blood and other body samples using the touch screens. The $10,000,000? That’s the size of this years X-prise, which go to the first person or group that can build a hand-held scanner that can detect 15 diseases and capture key heath metrics.
Beam Me Up Scotty!
“Transparent Aluminum?”
OK, you need to watch each video in order. They are short. The first is just a great Engineering scene from Star Trek IV. The second…well, just watch it.
Watch Video here.
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Nano Quadrotors! Fascinating!
Amazingly Tiny QuadRotor: Daedalus CrazyCopter (from FunnyRobotics.com)
The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP) of the University of Pennsylvania Engineering Department has develop a series of miniature 4-rotor (quadrotor) helicopters capable of swarming, flight formation, and obstacle avoidance that is absolutely amazing. And a bit unnerving.
Below is a series of videos from Penn.
Towards a Swarm of Nano QuadRotors
Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight
Aggressive Quadrotors Part III
Construction with Quadrotor Teams
My Attack of the Drones post of 9/6/2010 referencing the AR quadrotor controlled by an Apple iPad.
