Following on from http://mobilebeamer.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/surface-computing/ …
A very cool demonstration of just how useful the Nintendo Wii can be …
The author has a bunch of other videos about similar Nintendo Wii hacks, all very cool and most importantly accessible to pretty much anyone with a Wii and a small extra outlay.
I don’t like being spied on. I therefore don’t like CCTV, at least not the current implementations …
CCTV systems are justified by the statement that they prevent crime, or, at the very least, provide evidence to facilitate the successful conviction of criminals.
Fair enough if it were true, but it isn’t … the criminals all know exactly where the cameras are and normally just shift the location of their criminal activities away from them. Or they commit the crimes in full view of the cameras and obscure / disguise themselves.
The way it is now, a few people control and view the footage. They are easily influenced by those who want to commit the worse crimes.
Better solution … make access to the cameras available to every member of society and encourage them to view them, whenever they want. Then and only then will I support the idea of CCTV cameras covering all public places.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Yet another cool technology to come out of Micro$oft.
Would be fantastic in a pub / club environment. Hopefully one of the “trendier” places at Gunny will pick up on it soonish 
I am very much liking the next Nintendo console – Wii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii).
Many will cast it off as just another console but, for me, it finally looks like some real innovation is coming, within the recently starved video games industry. I am starting to believe that this could be the beginning of real social gaming. The benefits to society, family and the world could be immense – when the right people, with the right talents, are fully engaged by technology, real progress can be made.
Now if we can just get an “IBM inside” sticker on it too :O) …
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/09/27/0235250.shtml
So how long before we have an allofpdfs.com ?!?
Will be interesting to see what changes this might bring about in the publishing industry.
Am I going to be able to go to my local library and rent e-books ?
What value does an e-book have ?
