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By clever use of hand tracking and ultrasonic control of the air, you can feel holographic raindrops on your hands... Well, sort of, but it's an interesting approach and it does promise that one day we will have touchable holograms.

Rabbis use chanting and toot pipes to thwart the H1N1 swine flu virus. Putting the 'mental' in fundamentalism. And the 'fun'.

Really wonderful and creative music video by vadlefou.

This article in the Armed Forces Journal is an essential read to anyone whose business life involves a lot of PowerPoint.

Tomas Saraceno's work has appeared in many galleries in the UK, including Hayward Gallery, The Barbican, and as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

I have just discovered the work of Claire Morgan, although I realise now that I have seen some of her works - the arrow, and her installations at Selfridges without knowing her name. Her work is exquisitely beautiful.

What the world doesn't need is more artists

We went to the O2 Dome to see a movie. As you know, Michael Jackson was due to play there this summer. A Diana-esque shrine has popped up with discounted supermarket flowers and wellwishers wanting MJ to ‘moonwalk to heaven'. Someone I know said that it seems the British 'like their celebrites served cold'.

Massachusetts Man Is Shot as Crowds Wait for Sony Console. From New York Times:

Shopping for the new Sony PlayStation 3 video game console proved dangerous on Friday, with a shooting, a mugging and a stampede marking Connecticut’s opening day sales.

Not because of the PS3 of course, but because the guys in the queue had the money for a PS3.

Brainmirror is an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head movement as an interface to explore volumetric visuals of the human brain.

Spider Silk: Ancient Ideas, Great Future? From Medgadget

ATM theft. According to this story, it's surprisingly easy for techie people to hack ATMs and steal money. Not that aphid approves, but let's hope any geek thieves spend their money on good causes or better clothes.

Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot - Garnet Hertz.

How to Hack an Election in One Minute. Princeton U. researchers have released a study and video that demonstrate the ease of altering votes on an electronic voting machine.

From MIT Technology Review

Nanowires Listen In on Neurons: "Creating a tool with unmatched sensitivity, Harvard University researchers have made silicon nanowires that can precisely measure multiple electric signals within a neuron. These ultrasmall silicon wires could help brain scientists understand the underpinnings of learning and memory. They could also be used in neural prosthetics, providing electrodes far more sensitive than those currently used." From MIT Technology Review

Scientists can view brain-cell activity in living animals. From MIT Tech Review.

Single molecule stores data in IBM breakthrough. IBM researchers in Zurich have demonstrated a single molecule device capable of repeatedly storing and retrieving data.

Inhaled Nanoparticles Take a Direct Route to Brain. from Medgadget.

Defense Tech: Ooo-rah, MySpace!: Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.

So far, over 12,000 web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic... from AP via DefenseTech.org

Paralyzed man moves computer cursor through thought. LONDON (Reuters) - A Paralyzed man using a new brain sensor has been able to move a computer cursor, open e-mail and control a robotic device simply by thinking about doing it, a team of scientists said on Wednesday.

Wired News: This is a Computer on Your Brain. A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness.

Wired News: Real DJs Code Live. via Wired News.

The Korea Times : Mobile Phones Will Control Home Robots: "Starting this autumn, 1,000 sophisticated robots will make people's daily lives easier by cleaning up homes, taking care of pets or reading books for children."

Implantable Dust-Sized Sensors to Monitor Health, via Technology Review