Omegle is yet another Web 2.0 social networking experiment. Visitors are anonymised to the monikers ‘You’ and ‘Stranger’, such that your almost guaranteed to always be talking to someone new… and strange.
Omegle is essentially an ajax chat portal where you are more than encouraged to talk to strangers, thats the only people you can talk to.
There is something strangely intriguing about talking to absolute strangers, that you know nothing about and who also know nothing about you. It does have some negative drawbacks, as would any site based on such a minimalist concept, namely spammers and for some unknown reason alot of non-english speaking people trying to learn english, mostly Chineese for some reason.
If your bored, why not give Omegle a go, worst thing that can happen is you’ll purpetually be accused of being a 57 year old pervert.
With a combination of software and hardware, the Wiremap project aims to create 3D wiremaps in real 3D space using materials and tools as simple as projectors and thread.
The Singularity University is a cutting edge university, with a multi-dicipline facaulty and curriculum, its possibly the best example of the ultimate learning environment. An environment where the smartest and most passionate people from around the world join to learn from some of the best minds on various subjects.
The Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanitys grand challenges.
I’d love the oportunity to be a student at Singularity-U, but the entrance requirements are necessarily strict, with only 30 students permitted in the first year and 120 the year after.
If your interested in making the world a better place, and working with some of the brightest minds of our age, you might consider the [Singularity University]
The International Space Station care of mpancha on Flickr
The [GlobeAndMail] via [Engadget] report that a group of four college students from Toronto, Canada have accomplished a technological feat by constructing their very own astronaught-phone; with which, they managed to place a ten minute call to the International Space Station using a radio system they built themselves.
While school contacts with the space station are routinely made through the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program, many of those contacts are made using a traditional ham radio.
“It’s an incredible feat of undertaking and technology, and I’d just like to say I’m really, really proud of this team,” said Humber instructor Mark Rector.
“They’re playing way, way above their league today.”
Kirton has posted a guide on how to make your own punchbag interface controller.
This is a very unique solution, and probably the only punchbag/beanbag type human interface device I’ve ever seen. Like most of these unique interfaces, its hard to find a practical application, however I think perhaps for certain children with learning or motor-skills difficulties, this would perhaps be a good introductory tool to get them engaged in the classroom.
