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Seen this today and thought that it was good enough to re-publish…
When… When… can we the consumer get our hands on these mind-reading and synthetic telepathy and telekinesis headsets… so cool!
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/on10/7/8/3/1/2/NeuroSky_on10.wmv
http://www.neurosky.biz/menu/main/home/
I blogged about Emotiv’s comparative headset a few months ago… they released pricing of about $299 per headset…
NeuroSky have said in a video that their headset will probably go for about $50…
Both companies are releasing developer kits. Have managed to get my hands on Emotiv’s developer kit so far.
It looks like the competition is really starting to heat up in this arena with the games industry seeming to be the primary target market…
When can I get one of these for my PC and XBOX 360 ???
GTA IV… The game of the year is now only weeks away from being on the shelves and I simply cannot wait.
There are some rumours that this game will be released for the PC in October but it’s just far to far away to wait.
So I have finally given in and bought an XBOX 360 from Amazon.Co.Uk who are, by the way, doing a deal to knock of £10 if you buy the console with GTA IV… my brother was a bit disgusted with this… he said I probably would have got a better package deal from Game… he was probably right… but what the hey!
Microsoft have just reduced the price of the XBOX 360 substantially to help ensure that it remains the leading next-gen console against the PS3.
So I got an e-mail in from Amazon this evening saying that the console had shipped already and will be at my front door hopefully within the next few days… cool… I have a few older games to play on it in the meantime…
Am also happy enough with this purchase because, as a .NET developer, I’ve also been messing with Microsoft Game Studio Express 2.0 so I should be able to use my XBOX 360 for program testing. This is really cool, it makes use out of my pre-existing programming skills, and knowledge of Microsoft development studio, and allows me to cross-develop games that will run flawlessly on the PC and the XBOX. With the next release of Game Studio Express 3.0 there will also be the ability to port games directly to the Zune and hopefully Windows Mobile as well…
As well as that I should be able to stream media pretty easily on my home network from my Vista machine down to my XBOX so that’s cool too…
As well as that I’m gonna sign up for XBOX live which should integrate nicely into my Windows Live account so I get joined up E-Mail, Instant Messaging etc etc.
This is the thing I love the most about Microsoft technologies… they all just glue together seamlessly!
Anyway, in the meantime – new toys! Woo-Hoo!
Just need to get myself a decent HD TV now to connect my XBOX to. Still can’t justify this seeing as I have two perfectly good TVs already that are only about five years old and still working perfectly… I need to start leaving cups of coffee on top of them or something to help me build my business case for new asset investment…
Baby decided to arrive a little earlier than expected. We had a planned C-Section for mid-week but my wife’s waters broke a day early so we ended up having an emergency C-Section instead at the Ulster Hospital.
All went OK. No problems. All over really quickly. Wife and baby all OK. Baby is beautiful, weighing in at 7lbs 1. We are just over the moon.
Short stay in one of the side wards at the new maternity unit at the Ulster. Really great experience. Staff and atmosphere all excellent!
Got mum and baby home on Friday morning and everybody seems settled in. Baby is doing well, eating well, sleeping well, and really content so far!
Keeps you on your toes though. Never realised how much work there is in looking after babies… busy, busy!
