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Alright guys, I have a confession to make.  I'm a story writer.  I have been writing a Hero story for a while now and I have written thirty-five episodes/chapters now.  In episode form, that's two seasons completed now.  In book form, that's probably only half of an actual book, lol.  The story revolves around one girl named Zoey Hanson.  As she finds the junior year almost over, the greatest part of her life hasn't ended yet.  She finds out she has cat-like powers from her new friend and guardian, sixteen year-old, Jacob Cypher, and she becomes a superhero.  Through these new abilities given to her at childbirth, Zoey will now fight against the forces of supernatural evil called the Monsoon (which are a legion of vampires, psychic beings, lycans, phantoms, and worst of all, wraiths).  Here she will learn the true meaning of friendship and how there is, as a matter a fact, no "I" in "team".

Now...If that interested you any bit, please, give me your email address and I will personally send you the first two chapters to you.  If you like what you've read, just requet for more and I'll keep sending it to you.  Make sure your not like Jeremy Alosio and actually read it.  Don't lie to me (lol, yes Jeremy I know your not reading my story).

If you choose to read this adventure for the fight for our planets future, I hope you enjoy!!!

this is an awesome new controller for the xbox 360. it reads human motions and then uses them for the controller so you are the controller. also you can scan in pictures and objects such as skateboards.

Im doing my blog about a new demo of GT5, the demo was at the Tokyo Game Show. The Testers looked at the new damage model that is new to the series. They said theirs no big damage when you hit a wall but their will be gradual damage over time like doors falling off and scuffs on the paint. I'm not sure about anyone else but i cant wait for this game and am anxiously awaiting its release next year.

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Over the years the Call of Duty series has set the bar for immersive, action-packed, cinematic FPS gaming, and no matter what camp you're from there's no denying the franchise's influence on the industry. When Infinity Ward moved from the classic World War II setting and blazed new ground with Modern Warfare we saw the first obvious split within the world of Call of Duty. The series dropped its historic focus, created a new cast of characters, and began treading on new ground by taking the first-person shooter genre to new locales, and pushing the boundaries of what military games are willing to show. With Modern Warfare 2, the sheer amount of hype has been practically inescapable, with preorders alone setting it up as one of the biggest selling games of all time, the addition of even more multiplayer modes and features, and the game's new Special Operations mode has set Infinity Ward's lastest up as the game to beat this year.

The real question: has it been worth the wait, and can Modern Warfare 2 live up to the precedent set by over half a decade of Call of Duty tradition?

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer (Official HD)

Ah, the MIT Media Lab, home to Big Bird's illegitimate progeny, augmented reality projectsaplenty, and now three-dimensional gestural computing. The new bi-directional display being demoed by the Cambridge-based boffins performs both multitouch functions that we're familiar with and hand movement recognition in the space in front of the screen -- which we're also familiar with, but mostly from the movies. The gestural motion tracking is done via embedded optical sensors behind the display, which are allowed to see what you're doing by the LCD alternating rapidly (invisible to the human eye, but probably not to human pedantry) between what it's displaying to the viewer and a pattern for the camera array. This differs from projects like Natal, which have the camera offset from the display and therefore cannot work at short distances, but if you want even more detail, you'll find it in the informative video after the break.

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Over at MIT, a Computer input device has been created that could possibly be the basis of many future technological advancements. The device was a set up that was able to track hand gestures, and manipulate objects on the screen without contact with the screen. The use of motion detection by the device is fascinating, and for a more in depth look at how it works check out this video.

December 11, 2009 by Larry Hardesty

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Media Lab researchers demonstrate a laboratory mockup of a thin-screen LCD display with built-in optical sensors. Photo: Matthew Hirsch, Douglas Lanman, Ramesh Raskar, Henry Holtzman

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. But researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have already figured out how to use such sensors to turn displays into giant lensless cameras. On Dec. 19 at Siggraph Asia -- a recent spinoff of Siggraph, the premier graphics research conference -- the MIT team is presenting the first application of its work, a display that lets users manipulate on-screen images using hand gestures.

Many other researchers have been working on such gestural interfaces, which would, for example, allow computer users to drag windows around a screen simply by pointing at them and moving their fingers, or to rotate a virtual object through three dimensions with a flick of the wrist. Some large-scale gestural interfaces have already been commercialized, such as those developed by the Media Lab’s Hiroshi Ishii, whose work was the basis for the system that Tom Cruise’s character uses in the movie Minority Report.

But “those usually involve having a roomful of expensive cameras or wearing tracking tags on your fingers,” says Matthew Hirsch, a PhD candidate at the Media Lab who, along with Media Lab professors Ramesh Raskar and Henry Holtzman and visiting researcher Douglas Lanman, developed the new display. Some experimental systems — such as Microsoft’s Natal — instead use small cameras embedded in a display to capture gestural information. But because the cameras are offset from the center of the screen, they don’t work well at short distances, and they can’t provide a seamless transition from gestural to touch screen interactions. Cameras set far enough behind the screen can provide that transition, as they do in Microsoft’s SecondLight, but they add to the display’s thickness and require costly hardware to render the screen alternately transparent and opaque. “The goal with this is to be able to incorporate the gestural display into a thin LCD device” — like a cell phone — “and to be able to do it without wearing gloves or anything like that,” Hirsch says.

Wow, technology's come a long way, huh? So, if this all works out, we can just point to something and it opens! That opens up plenty of frontiers for technology to expand. Gaming, Music, All sorts of things.  definitely want to see this happen

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Get into the baby Carriage!!! Do it! Do it Now! NOW CHANGE MY DIAPER! DO IT NOW!

These crazy baby carriages, designed by Chinese artist Shi Jinsong, will guarantee that no one ever fucks with your baby. By all means, park your stroller in the aisle of the restaurant! We don't mind! Please don't kill us!
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A shootout Thursday between a police officer and a street peddler in Times Square -- crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists -- left the suspect dead but no one else harmed, New York police said.

New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said gunfire was exchanged after a police sergeant confronted two men who were selling CDs on the street. The sergeant, a member of a task force on street peddlers, believed he recognized one of the men as using "aggressive" sales tactics and coercing tourists to buy unwanted items, Browne said.

One of the men fled, pulled a Mac-10 pistol and fired two shots at the officer, Browne said. A bullet shattered glass in the window of the box office of the Marquis Theater near Times Square's Marriott Marquis hotel, and the other bullet hit a nearby souvenir shop, Browne said.

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