Monthly Archives: August 2009

Bad Design

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design
Death Star
An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you rebuild it, your solution to this problem is four paths into the central core so large that you can literally fly a spaceship through them? Brilliant. Note to the […]

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Sixth Sense Technology

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

I was reading halting state on the bus this morning and then I come across this video.
Pattie Maes demos the sixth sense
Amazing stuff. In Halting State (near future SF) people wear glasses with cameras in the frames and projectors projecting onto the lenses of the glasses giving the wearer augmented reality overlays on the real […]

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