When I was an undergrad at UC Irvine, I spent about a year and a half in a neuro-opthalmology lab. In the lab I worked on two major initiatives, one of which was computer aided color-blindness therapy. Color-blindness is when the eye lacks a certain type of photoreceptor. Roughly 5-7% of men lack either the [...]
Handles, Aliases, Nicknames, Vanity URLs, etc – you know them by many names. They’re our unique identifiers, quick ways to pick each other out in conversation, be it online or offline. Maybe they represent a bit about our personality, or maybe just a shorter way to say a really long name. Whatever the case, people’s [...]
I have to admit, I really enjoy thinking about the experience of a consumer with all this new media we have available to us today. It’s a sort of weird hobby, but I have always enjoyed the challenge of the whole ‘step in someone elses shoes’ mindset that goes into recreating and living that experience. [...]
The other day Jurassic Park caught my eye as I was flipping through some TV stations (yes, I watch, only sometimes though). Being a child of the information age, I’m both easily distracted and a big fan of factual data and the interesting connections between that data. At this time, my internal monologue was something [...]
Just mere months after a brutal counter-hype cycle of Second Life bore its ugly head, I’m predicting we’re going to have some of the same counter-hype coming to the Wii. But first, allow me to take a slight (large?) tangent and take a step back from the (legitimate or otherwise) complaints about either product to [...]
My Vista experience on my Thinkpad X41 Tablet been a rather large disappointment: wireless constantly needs to be re-configured, start times are atrocious, the interface is extremely unresponsive, bugs and crashing, etc. Today I got handed my latest disappointment today when I got back my thinkpad from servicing – I have to re-activate windows in [...]
