SleepSmart looks like one of those eye cover thingy-mo-bobs my mom used to wear when she was napping. I never really understood them. I mean, your eyes are closed anyways, so how much light do you really need to block? But this one seems to have a real purpose. SleepSmart is really more like an alarm clock. It monitors your brain waves and wakes you up when you are in the lightest phase of your sleeping pattern. This way when you wake up you feel refreshed and not hung-over. No matter how good a nights sleep you got, a jarring alarm when you are in the thick of a dream is a crap way to start the morning.
Daily Archives: April 14, 2005
What’s Your Type?
I was always baffled at the uncanny detail that video game manufacturers used when creating a game. I can reach back into my memory banks and pull out instances such as the day I bought Street Fighter II for the Super Nintendo Console. I remember looking through the character profiles (and after several minutes of awe over Chun Li’s measurements) I noticed that they even went so far as to include blood type.
Blood type! Wow, I don’t even know my own blood type, but I know Dhalsim, M. Bison, and E. Honda’s blood type.
Until today it just didn’t make sense, and I let it go. But in this article I realized that there is a significance to blood type. The concept was Japan born in 1927, and hit the pop culture in 1971. I don’t know my own blood type, but I’m guessing from this article that I’m type O, the outgoing / expressive / passionate type. Apparently type B’s are getting a bad rep for their “strong personalities”. Regardless, I’m scrapping that “what’s your sign” pickup line for the new “what’s your blood type” *eyebrows moving up and down*.
Printers: Not Just For Paper
World Changing, an excellent blog recently nominated for a Webby, made the bold claim today that the ink jet printer might end up being the most important technoligical innovation of the 20th century.
Wait….where are you going. No, keep reading, let me explain.
Scientists have used the same technology that spits ink out of your home printer to do all kinds of things including printing out human cells. That sounds utterly ridiculous, but its true. Burn victims can have made-to-order skin replacement.
Ink printers can also squeeze out plastics into solid objects too. “We’re rapidly approaching a time when useful objects can be printed out as easily as a photo.”
This is one of those unseen technological breakthroughs that could have enormous potential. I can’t wait to see the first printer hacks. Ohhh how gruesome.
Not A Record Deal, A Ringtone Deal
Dwango Wireless, one of the big wigs when it comes to mobile entertainment, has found an alliance in the Rap Olympics. You didn’t read that wrong, the Rap Olympics is similar to the freestyle competition that you saw when Eminem’s movie 8 Mile came out.
Where does Dwango Wireless and the Rap Olympics fit in with LIVE Digitally? On your mobile phone that’s where! The winners are offered a few different prizes but the one that caught my eye was the downloadable ringtones deal.
It’s so geeky that I love it, a few years ago customizing your phone was looked upon as nerdy, something that children and losers with nothing better to do did. (Can you see that I was tormented for that flashy red phone case I had). Given a bit of time for people to realize what was going on, and now it’s fun, everyone jumps in. Even the Rap Olympics want a piece, can’t say I saw that one coming.