This is something I’ve been hearing about for a couple months now but haven’t seen anything about until today. Emotiv Systems‘ Tan Le (pictured above) gave a presentation on her mind control device at The Entertainment Gathering on December 12th, 2008. With the help of an inspiration of hers that was attending the conference, Marvin Minsky, she demonstated the potential that the EPOC had by having Marvin rotate a 3D-generated cube on a computer screen counter-clockwise. After a successful attempt, Tan had Marvin try out the “disappear” feature, which makes the cube, you guessed it, disappear. Marvin, being the inquisitive mind that he is, asked if he could try out both functions simultaneously, which was executed to a wave of applause.

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Tags: 3D, brain, control, creation, developers, emotiv, EPOC, Game, GE, marvin minsky, mind, Music, play, power, systems, tan le, technology, testing, the entertainment gathering, video

This entry was posted on Friday, December 26th, 2008 at 5:34 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The geniuses behind Auditorium at Cipher Prime have outdone themselves. Auditorium is a great, free online puzzle game that successfully melds audio with visual. Basically, light streams shoot across the playing space. The goal is to direct these lights to their perspective receiving boxes and to fill them up completely. The game gets more interesting when you factor in different “controls” to redirect the light source, sometimes having to pass through multiple color-wheel-esque changes.

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Tags: Audio-Visual, Game, MIDI, Online, Reason, Sound Design

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 8:55 am and is filed under Music, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.