Last week I had the opportunity to say howdy to Nick Denton – haven’t seen him since our First Tuesday days.
It appears Nick has released Nick Douglas, and temporarily taken over as editor of Valleywag, one of his stable of blogs at Gawker Media.
Nick makes the point – tongue in cheek or not – that he was ‘bored running a business’ …as one serial entrepreneur to another…I totally agree, sometimes it’s better to be in the fray than orchestrating it.
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For all those rocking air guitar players out there….your time has come to shine. No longer will your gestures be seen as trite, no longer will you be beholden to another’s musical whims…
Entering from left of stage…put your hands together for the air guitar!
Scientists at CSIRO, one of Australia’s research labs, have built a virtual guitar by embedding sensors into a shirt.
It works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to computer for audio generation. There are no trailing cables to get in the way or trip over.
Textile motion sensors embedded in the shirt sleeves detect motion when the arm bends – in most cases the left arm chooses a note and the right arm plays it.
Way to go CSIRO – who said scientists aren’t uber cool.
