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国際的取り締まりで25名のアノニマス構成員を逮捕

latestworld001 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:40:00 -0500

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25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown

<要約>

アルゼンチン、チリ、コロンビア、スペインの各国警察がアノニマス構成員とされる25名をコロンビとチリでのウェブサイト攻撃の容疑で逮捕したと国際刑事機構(インターポール)が報じた。この逮捕は南米を主とするスペイン語圏のアノニマスの取り締まりの一環で行われ、250ものコンピュータやモバイル機器も押収された。逮捕後、インターポールのウェブサイトがダウンした(現在は復旧)。これはアノニマスによる報復と考えられる。

<原文>

Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.

Officers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain worked together in “Operation Unmask,” seizing 250 pieces of equipment, including phones, during searches of 40 locations in 15 cities, according to INTERPOL. The arrestees were between the ages of 17 and 40, but their names and locations were not released.

“This operation shows that crime in the virtual world does have real consequences for those involved, and that the Internet cannot be seen as a safe haven for criminal activity, no matter where it originates or where it is targeted,” said Bernd Rossbach, Acting INTERPOL Executive Director of Police Services, in the INTERPOL release.

The arrests come as Anonymous has become a powerful online force. On Monday, WikiLeaks sprang back to life, publishing e-mails from a controversial private intelligence firm known asStratfor that were obtained by Anonymous hackers. Anonymous’ recent activities have ranged from coordinating protests against ACTA in Europe and supporting the Arab Spring with online logistics to conducting regularly scheduled Friday hacks intended to embarrass law enforcement and corporations.

The interpol.int website was down for some time Tuesday, after a prominent Spanish language account associated with Anonymous called for a DDoS attack on the site on Twitter. Another Anonymous account declared “Tango Down,” the anon term signaling a website has been taken offline, at 5:43 p.m. EST. As of the time of this writing, the INTERPOL website is responding again, but slowly.

Spanish police traced back IP addresses from server logs, leading to 10 suspects in Argentina, six in Chile and five in Colombia, responsible for defacement of websites and publishing confidential data, including the personal data of the security detail of unnamed top officials, according to Agence France Presse.

Others who have participated in Anonymous DDoS protests and some accused of real hacking have been arrested and prosecuted in the U.S. and internationally. However, the arrests have not, at least so far, had any outward effects on the Anonymous movement.

占い盤やビール缶でアンプを作る男

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:24:26 -0500

<Wired>

DIY Guy Cranks Out Guitar Amps Made of Ouija Boards, Beer Cans

ビール缶でギターアンプを作るビデオを見て、Robert Brenneはインスピレーションを受けた。「ビール缶で出来るなら何だってできるじゃないか！」

20年代ポップカルチャーのファンであるBrenneは、ヴィンテージのニンテンドーギアやパックマン、忍者タートルズの商品などでよくアンプを作る。

「僕は誰かが持ってたがらくたとか、子供の頃好きだったようなものを集めるのが好きなんだ。例えばゴーストバスターズのお弁当箱とか。でも大人はそんなのは家に飾れないけど、アンプならいいじゃないかと思って。」

いろいろな物をアンプにするのに試行錯誤を重ね、ついにはそれをビジネスにしてしまった。

DIY guitar amp maker Robert Brenne uses unorthodox raw materials like this Ouija board to make his musical equipment.

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After seeing video of a beer can turned into a guitar amp, Robert Brenne got inspired to try his hand at home-brewing his own custom music gear out of oddball parts.

A mid-20s pop-culture fan, Brenne tends to make amps that reflect his interests and personality. Browse his website and you’ll find amps made of vintage Nintendo gear and merchandise from the likes of Pac-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

“I like finding what someone had and really liked as a kid, like a Ghostbusters lunch box,” he told Wired. “Now that you’re older, you can’t really display it in your house, but as an amp it’s functional.”

Pairing that collector’s eye with DIY spirit, Brenne turned to the web, where you can find instructions for almost everything, from building a videogame in a box to making zombie makeup out of grocery store items. He stumbled onto RunOffGroove.com — in particular, plans for the Ruby amp circuit.

Then he took a quick soldering lesson from his father and got to work on his first amp.

“Building the circuit was very trial-and-error. When I first did it, I had a lot of buzzing but not a lot of guitar sound,” Brenne said. “I felt I was on the right track and I had to keep going. Once I finally got it, I thought, ‘If you can do it with a beer can, you can do it with anything.’”

Brenne built amp after amp, eventually turning his new hobby into a business. Now his shop,Artistic Amplification, offers custom-built guitar or auxiliary amps made from virtually anything, ranging from decorative vases to Sesame Streetparaphernalia.

What Portlandia‘s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are to pickling, Brenne is to amplification.

Brenne’s played guitar for more than 10 years and finds that every DIY amp produces a unique tone, with wood amps sounding very different from those made of metal or plastic. (Compare the sound of hiscigar box amp to the tone of one made from a Ghostbusters thermos.)

For every amp, he said he seeks out something that is unique and visually appealing to use as a base. Some source material he receives from donors; other items he finds at thrift stores, antique sales or even lying around his house. No matter an amp’s point of origin, they’re all fitted with the Ruby circuit.

Build times vary. An easy-to-retrofit item might take two or three hours to convert, while more complicated projects can take eight hours.

A rotary phone contains a lot more interior material to work around or remove than a cigar box, for example, and if an item possesses some unique characteristics, Brenne does his best to maintain that functionality. (His rotary phone amp’s handset serves as a speaker.)

The DIY amp wizard clearly likes board games — he built a chess guitar amp and a Hungry, Hungry Hippos auxiliary amp — but he lovesMetallica. He’s also got a history of building amps to give to his favorite musicians: Most recently, he sent a White Stripes-inspired phone amp to Jack White’s Third Man Records.

Brenne knew Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett had a Ouija signature guitar, so building a Ouija board amp was only a matter of time. Brenne made one and sent it to the band.

“I’m told it’s hanging in the equipment manager’s office out in their California studio,” he said. “I’m hoping a pic pops up sometime.”

Mean Jollies: Attn: People Griping About Adobe Dropping Support for Flash on Linux

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:02:46 -0500

Mean Jollies: Attn: People Griping About Adobe Dropping Support for Flash on Linux:

LinuxでのFlashサポート終了にブーブーいう人たちへ

これはAdobeの決断で最も評価出来る事だ。業界全てに対して良い事をしたね。ネコ動画を見れない事やChromeを使うことを強制されてると嘆く人たちはある事を見落としてる。HTML5は良いよ。スペックを読んでみなって。Flashは初期参入の遺産だけで頑張ってきた遺物だって分かるから。

meanjollies:

Shut the fuck up. You don’t know what you’re talking about. This is probably the best move Adobe has made in a very long time. Adobe is doing the entire industry a favor, and your kvetching about not being able to watch kitten videos on YouTube in Firefox, and general moaning about being “forced”…

「Facebookのモバイル推しはAppleの媒介阻止狙い」Facebook's Mobile Push Aims To Cut Apple Out As Middle Man

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:51:01 -0500

「Facebookのモバイル推しはAppleの媒介阻止狙い」Facebook's Mobile Push Aims To Cut Apple Out As Middle Man

オスカーのベスト短編映画は…iPadアプリになります fastcompany: And The Oscar For Best...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:46:22 -0500

オスカーのベスト短編映画は…iPadアプリになります

fastcompany:

And The Oscar For Best Short Film Goes To … An iPad App

Here’s the backstory on Morris Lessmore’s creators, Moonbot Studios:

At Moonbot’s Louisiana Studio, Hollywood Vets Dream Up Magical, Interactive Stories

With Moonbot Studios, a children’s animation star remakes the cinematic experience. And that’s just his first trick.

ノキアは写真界でのレベルをアップした！新しい PureView phone はCarl Zeiss f/2.4...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:44:46 -0500

ノキアは写真界でのレベルをアップした！

新しい PureView phone はCarl Zeiss f/2.4 レンズ搭載で41メガピクセルの写真撮影が可能。

photojojo:

Nokia’s stepped up their game in the phoneography world!

Their new PureView phone has a Carl Zeiss f/2.4 lens that shoots 41 mega-pixel photos.

(See more sample pics!)

Nokia’s New Carl Zeiss Lens Camera Phone

"In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year..."

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:40:54 -0500

“

In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

たった一年間の米軍の予算は、50年間のNASAの経営予算と同じ

”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via anticapitalist)

Rhythm 0,...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:28:33 -0500

Rhythm 0, 1974

パフォマーとオーディエンスの関係の限界を試すためにAbramovićは彼女のもっとも挑発的な（そして最も有名な）パフォーマンスを行った。

彼女は自分に受動的な役割を与え、公衆を彼女に作用する力と化した。

テーブルの上に72種類のものを置き、誰でもそれを好きなように使ってよいという但し書きを付けた。

その中には喜びを与えることができるものと痛みや苦痛を与えるものとがあった。バラの花や蜂蜜、ホイップクリーム、ハサミ、メス、銃と銃弾などである。６時間の間、彼女は公衆の好きにさせた。最初のうちはオーディエンスは控えめに振る舞っていたが、時間が経つと（その間、彼女は受動的態度に徹していた）人々は攻撃的な行動をとりはじめた。

Abramovićが語るところによると「私が感じたのは…もしオーディエンスの好きにさせていたら、殺されかねないということ。私は暴力を受けたと感じた。服を切り裂いて、バラの刺をお腹に刺されて、ある人は銃で私の頭に狙いをつけた。別の人が取り上げたけど。攻撃的な雰囲気になっていた。丁度６時間で、私がオーディエンスに向かって歩き始めたら、皆走って逃げた。本当に対面するのを恐れてね。」

ragata:

Rhythm 0, 1974 To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her. Abramović had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions. Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later: “What I learned was that… if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” … “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.”

世界的の高名な写真家Gerd...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:04:25 -0500

(Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE)

(Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE)

(Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE)

(Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE)

世界的の高名な写真家Gerd Ludwig は、チェルノブイリ原発事故の記録に長い年月を費やしてきた。撮りためた、人々や場所の記録の写真やビデオを見られるiPadアプリ

kqedscience:

Gerd Ludwig’s “Long Shadow of Chernobyl” project

Internationally-renowned photojournalist Gerd Ludwig has spent years documenting the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In 1986, errors at the plant in Ukraine led to an explosion that ultimately caused over a quarter of a million people to permanently evacuate their homes to escape the radiation and radioactive fallout. Over the course of several trips to the site and the region for National Geographic Magazine in 1993, 2005, and 2011, Ludwig has amassed a documentary record of a people and a place irreparably altered by a tragic accident. His 2011 trip was partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Now Ludwig has released an iPad app with over 150 photographs, video, and interactive panoramas.

このアクリルの棒は装置で回転しながら５ミリオン・エレクトロン・ボルトのビームを照射されています。放電の元はフレーム内に向かい合って...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:45:48 -0500

このアクリルの棒は装置で回転しながら５ミリオン・エレクトロン・ボルトのビームを照射されています。放電の元はフレーム内に向かい合って設置されていて５ワットのLEDで照らされています。

freshphotons:

One Hundred Nanoseconds.

Two 2” diameter acrylic rods were irradiated with a 5 million electron volt e-beam while they were rotated in a motorized fixture. The roots of the discharges were mounted facing each other in a frame with illuminates each end with a 5 watt white LED.

olgashine: Super Gb 02

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:34:18 -0500

olgashine:

Super Gb 02

「子供がTVゲームをまねするなんて嘘だ。もしパックマンがぼくたちに影響を与えたなら、みんな暗い部屋の中を走り回って、魔法の薬をもぐ...

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:33:55 -0500

「子供がTVゲームをまねするなんて嘘だ。もしパックマンがぼくたちに影響を与えたなら、みんな暗い部屋の中を走り回って、魔法の薬をもぐもぐして、同じ音楽をリピートすることになる。」

rainbowbreyeght:

oh wait

ちょっとまて

スポンジボブ可哀想 girlfights: Poor Spongebob.

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:28:47 -0500

スポンジボブ可哀想

girlfights:

Poor Spongebob.

「ガールスカウト」「ミント」

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:27:41 -0500

「ガールスカウト」

「ミント」

金持ちの方が不正行為をしやすい理由

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:08:58 -0500

<Wired>

Greed Isn’t Good: Wealth Could Make People Unethical

社会経済と倫理の関係に関する研究で、個人の富と社会的地位が上がると非倫理的な傾向も上昇するということが分かった。

この研究は、実地と仮想の両方を含む７つの実験に基づいている。カリフォルニア大学バークレー校の心理学者Paul Piff はこう述べる。「社会的に恵まれた地位にあると、他の人々と分断されるという自然な心理学的現象が起こり、自分の行動が他の人に与える影響について感知しない傾向が見られやすくなる。少なくともこの研究においてはルールを破りやすい傾向がある。」

一つ目の実験では、ある交差点を観察し、そこを通る車のメーカーとモデルに注目して主計したところ、社会経済上高いステータスの運転者は低い方に比べ約２倍の割り込みをしていた。

また、バークレーの学生に「おつりを多くもらったときにどうするか」という質問をした際、低いステータスの学生の方が正直であった。また、想定実験では自分を大金持ちだと想定した人の方があとの人の事を考えずにキャンディーを多く取る傾向があった。

その他の実験でも同様の結果が見られ、「人々が不正をするのは、貧乏だったり困窮しているくからではなく、権利が与えられていると感じたり人に先んじたいという気持ちから」だということが分かった。

As an individual’s wealth and status rise, so does their tendency to be unethical, concludes a new study of the relationship between socioeconomics and ethics.

The study included seven different experiments that spanned real-world and laboratory settings, from rude San Francisco drivers to test subjects given a chance to take candy from children.

“Occupying privileged positions in society has this natural psychological effect of insulating you from others,” said psychologist Paul Piff of the University of California, Berkeley. “You’re less likely to perceive the impact your behavior has on others. As a result, at least in this paper, you’re more likely to break the rules.”

The findings, announced Feb. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, come at a moment when historical tensions over wealth and class have reached a fever pitch: Is greed good, and extreme wealth a sign of virtue? Does wealth corrupt, and should a society strive to be egalitarian in income as well as principles?

‘Upper- and lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in terms of their capacity for unethical behavior, but rather in terms of their default tendencies toward it.’

To these thorny social questions, Piff and colleagues apply the methodologies of science. In their first two experiments, they monitored traffic at a four-way intersection in San Francisco, noting the makes and models of automobiles — a reliable indicator of socioeconomic status, or SES — and whether their drivers cut off other vehicles or pedestrians. Rude behavior rose with status, and high-SES drivers were roughly twice as inconsiderate as low-SES drivers.

In the next experiment, the researchers tested 105 Berkeley undergraduates on realistic ethical scenarios, such as what they’d do when given change for $20 after paying with a $10 bill. Lower-SES participants tended to be more honest.

The fourth experiment probed the underlying dynamics. Test-takers were asked to imagine themselves being very rich or poor, then given an opportunity to take candy from a jar that would next be delivered to children in another lab. Students who’d pretended to be rich took more candy, suggesting that “the experience of higher social class has a causal relationship to unethical decision-making and behavior,” wrote Piff’s team.

If that test had a certain tongue-in-cheek humor, however, the next was more poignant: 108 adults recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk labor service were asked play the role of managers negotiating with a hypothetical job applicant. The applicant wanted security, they were told, and would take less money in exchange for a two-year contract — but, unbeknownst to applicants, the job would only last six months, and managers could get a bonus for negotiating a low salary.

On the X-axis, the vehicle status of cars from low (left) to high (right). On the Y-axis, the percentage of drivers who cut off pedestrians at a San Francisco crosswalk. Image: Piff et al./PNAS

The higher the manager’s real-world income, and the more positively they described greed in a survey, the more likely they were to lie about the job’s duration.

“Upper-SES people were way less likely to say they’d be honest, and that effect was driven by their more-favorable attitudes towards greed,” said Piff. “We believe that competition, self-interest and prioritization of one’s own welfare explains their tendencies to withhold.”

In the next experiment, 195 adults were recruited via a Craigslist advertisement. After being quizzed on their backgrounds, they were presented with what appeared to be a game of chance in which a computer program randomly rolled five dice. The higher the score, the greater their chance of winning a $50 gift certificate. Test-takers reported the scores themselves, but didn’t know the program was rigged to always generate a score of 12. High-SES people cheated the most, routinely claiming scores of 15 or higher.

The final study tested how participants would respond to ethically challenging scenarios — laying off employees while taking a higher personal bonus, or pulling a bait-and-switch on customers — after being “primed” by telling neutral stories about their day, or talking about the benefits of greed.

After the neutral prime, upper-SES people were more likely to behave unethically, but a greed prime reversed the roles. “Upper- and lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in terms of their capacity for unethical behavior,” wrote Piff’s team, “but rather in terms of their default tendencies toward it.”

“This work is important because it suggests that people often act unethically not because they are desperate and in the dumps, but because they feel entitled and want to get ahead,” said evolutionary psychologist and consumer researcher Vladas Griskevicius of the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the work. “I am especially impressed that the findings are consistent across seven different studies with varied methodologies. This work is not just good science, but it is shows deeper insight into the reasons why people lie, cheat, and steal.”

According to Piff, unethical behavior in the study was driven both by greed, which makes people less empathic, and the nature of wealth in a highly stratified society. It insulates people from the consequences of their actions, reduces their need for social connections and fuels feelings of entitlement, all of which become self-reinforcing cultural norms.

“When pursuit of self-interest is allowed to run unchecked, it can lead to socially pernicious outcomes,” said Piff, who noted that the findings are not politically partisan. “The same rules apply to liberals and conservatives. We always control for political persuasion,” he said.

Image: The Consumerist/Flickr

Citation: “Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior.” By Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109 No. 9, Feb. 28, 2012.

Google拡張現実メガネ発売の噂に現実味

latestworld002 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:05:55 -0500

<Wired>

Google Hiring Augmented-Reality Experts Amid Rumors of HUD Glasses

Googleは昨年末から、拡張現実マッピングのためのデザイナーとエンジニア職の募集をしていた。この求人がヘッドアップディスプレイの噂と関わりがあるという証拠はないが、時期的に興味深い符合ではある。

先週、Googleがヘッドアップディスプレイのメガネを今年の暮れにも発売するとニューヨークタイムズが報じた。見た目は音楽プレイヤー付きサングラスの「オークリーTHUMP」に似ており、拡張現実データを投影できるというもの。

タイム紙によると、この拡張現実データは小さなディスプレイにデータを映し出し、背景に重ねて見せるという。内容は、位置情報や周りの建物や近くにいる友人などについて。Androidデバイスとセットで使用でき、３Gか４Gデータ接続プランが付くと考えられている。

安全性や実現可能性など問題点はあるものの、将来性のある商品と考えられている。

Sources say that Google’s HUD glasses will resemble Oakley Thump Sunglasses. Source: Oakley

As rumors swirl around Google’s plans to announce head-up display glasses by the end of the year, the company has quietly begun advertising for a designer and engineer responsible for augmented-reality mapping.

The positions include a “special projects” front-end software engineer and a designer for local, mobile and social apps. Both job descriptions list augmented-reality mapping as a top responsibility. The designer position requires the ability to “integrate mobile platforms, augmented reality mapping, geo-location, and real-time interaction.”

There’s no evidence that these positions have anything to do with the rumored head-up display (HUD) glasses, but the timing is interesting.

Last week, a New York Times article reported that Google was allegedly working on a pair of HUD glasses to be released later this year. The glasses would look similar to Oakley Thump sunglasses, and provide augmented-reality data overlays about landmarks and even passers-by right in front of a user’s eyes.

The story provided a provocative glimpse into the future of augmented reality, but created more questions than it answered. How will the glasses actually work? And can Google convince the public that HUD glasses and augmented reality are more than just niche technologies?

We talked with Blair MacIntyre, director of the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, about the rumored glasses, and he got right to the point: “They will have to do a lot for people to consider buying them.”

How Might They Work?

According to the Times report, information will be displayed on a “small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye.” A low-resolution camera will monitor the real world and “overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings, and friends who might be nearby.” The glasses will allegedly work with a user’s Android device, and will ship with a 3G or 4G data connection (that’s right: get ready for yet another data bill).

The description above suggests two divergent (and conflicting) paths to information display. The reference to a “small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye” evokes comparisons toRecon Instrument’s Mod Live snow goggles. These have normal lenses, and HUD information is delivered via a small, discrete LCD screen that sits at the bottom of the right-hand lens. To see the screen, the user merely looks down and refocuses his attention. This isn’t an “overlay” feature by any means, but it is a potentially safe (if also somewhat conventional) approach to HUD glasses.

The Recon Instruments snow sports goggles have a “micro LCD” screen at the bottom of the lower-right lens that provides a small window of HUD data. Source: Recon Instruments

But there’s another much more sci-fi possibility (and it too was evoked in the Times article): All the augmented reality data will be displayed directly in the lenses of the glasses. The lenses would allow the user to simultaneously see the world at large as well as graphical overlays. This approach presents a manufacturing challenge. Indeed, how do you deliver augmented reality overlays via a lens that in and of itself must remain at least semi-transparent?

MacIntyre says, “The problem with transparency is how to do it in a way that actually works in lots of situations.” Nonetheless, he notes that transparency could be accomplished in two different ways.

First, the lenses could take the form of semi-transparent displays that allow users to see directly though them as they would with regular glasses. Integrated with LCD or OLED display technology, the lenses would allow both ambient light and projected light to reach a user’s eyes. MacIntyre said such a system bears the characteristics of a two-way mirror.

Because of their integrated display layer, the lenses would have a slight tint to them, and wouldn’t be completely transparent. This basic technology can currently be seen in the Samsung “smart window display” concept as well as the Haier Designer Transparent TV.

MacIntyre cautions that this approach has drawbacks: As a HUD user moves from one environment to another, changes in ambient lighting directly affect the visibility of the data overlay. “The problem with the [integrated display] approach is that the blend of outside light and display light is kind of fixed,” he says. “For the blending to work, there has to be an optimal amount of light coming in from the world. So if the world is very dark, you’re not going to see much of it — but you’ll see display. If the world is very bright, you’re not going to see much of the display — you’re going to see mostly world.”

In order to alleviate theses problems, Google would need to implement a feature that measures ambient lighting, and adjusts the display overlay’s brightness to ensure visibility. Augmented reality glasses that require the user to stay within a fixed spectrum of ambient light are fine for industrial and medical uses, MacIntyre says, but wouldn’t excite many consumers.

But there’s also a second possibility for overlaying graphical data on top of what we observe in the field: lasers.

MacIntyre says a virtual retinal display (VRD) could use lasers to draw images directly onto the retina of the eye. In fact, MicroVision is currently working on this technology for consumer-based wearable technology. Because the graphical overlays would be visible “in-eye” so to speak, there wouldn’t be any concern about changes in ambient light conditions.

Indeed, convincing consumers that shooting lasers into their eyes might prove the trickier challenge.

Regardless, MacIntyre believes that Google could bring some type of visual overlay glasses to market in the rumored $250 to $600 price range if it’s willing to eat the cost of R&D, and subsidize the price of the glasses. Google is already rumored to be working on optics technology, and will continue that research in its new secret lab.

Will They Be Safe?

“It doesn’t just matter where your eyes are. It matters where your brain is focused,” says Adam Grazzaley, Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. Grazzaley studies neural mechanisms of memory and attention, and finds it concerning that users might wear HUD glasses while attempting other tasks — like, say, walking.

“Our ability to engage in goal-directed behavior is very sensitive to interference from our environment,” Grazzaley told Wired. Moreover, said Grazzaley, users should be concerned about layering ever more complex stimuli and tasks on top of activities they’re already engaged in. Walking and especially driving demand a lot of focused attention — if only because the results are so serious when accidents occur.

Grazzaley noted that even if Google were to forgo placing HUD displays directly inside the lenses — instead opting for discrete lenses a la the Recon Instruments approach — there could still be problems. “Just because it’s not right in your field of view doesn’t mean it can’t have a distraction effect,” he said.

Pranav Mistry, an MIT Media Lab researcher and one of the inventors of SixthSense wearable computing system, exposed a fundamental flaw with augmented reality: “The human eye cannot focus the same on two levels,” he told Wired. “Having something overlaid in your eye — over the top of your eye — you cannot focus on the background at the same time. For example, if you want to augment something on an object that is far away from you, your eye has to keep changing focus.”

Will They Actually Sell?

Putting aside technical feasibility and even public safety, Google’s rumored glasses still face a daunting challenge: commercial viability. Are these HUD glasses something consumers even want? According to Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps, wearable devices are one of the top five computing formfactors to watch. She believes that the first generation of Google’s HUD glasses wouldn’t sell in any significant volume, but would still get developers and consumers thinking about wearable products.

“Google wants to spur innovation,” she said, “and humanity will work out the essential issues over the long run.”

霊長類：人(Homo sapiens, 1.176 kg), チンパンジー(Pan troglodytes, 273 g),...

latestworld002 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:32:20 -0500

霊長類：人(Homo sapiens, 1.176 kg), チンパンジー(Pan troglodytes, 273 g), ヒヒ (Papio cynocephalus, 151 g), オナガザル(Mandrillus sphinx, 123 g), ニホンザル (Macaca tonkeana, 110 g). 肉食動物: クマ (Ursus arctos, 289 g), ライオン (Panthera leo, 165 g), チーター (Acinonyx jubatus, 119 g), イヌ(Canis familiaris, 95 g), ネコ(Felis catus, 32 g). 偶蹄目: キリン (Giraffa camelopardalis, 700 g), レイヨウ (Tragelaphus strepsiceros, 166 g), ムフロン(Ovis musimon, 118 g), アイベックス(Capra pyrenaica, 115 g); ペッカリー(Tayassu pecari, 41 g). 有袋類: ワラビー (Protemnodon rufogrisea, 28 g). ウサギ目: ウサギ (Oryctolagus cuniculus, 5.2 g). げっ歯類：ネズミ (Rattus rattus, 2.6 g), ハツカネズミ (Mus musculus, 0.5 g)

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Variability of brain size and external topography.

Photographs and weights of the brains of different species. Primates: human (Homo sapiens, 1.176 kg), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, 273 g), baboon (Papio cynocephalus, 151 g), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, 123 g), macaque (Macaca tonkeana, 110 g). Carnivores: bear (Ursus arctos, 289 g), lion (Panthera leo, 165 g), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, 119 g), dog (Canis familiaris, 95 g), cat (Felis catus, 32 g). Artiodactyls: giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis, 700 g), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros, 166 g), mouflon (Ovis musimon, 118 g), ibex (Capra pyrenaica, 115 g); peccary (Tayassu pecari, 41 g). Marsupials: wallaby (Protemnodon rufogrisea, 28 g). Lagomorphs: rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, 5.2 g). Rodents: rat (Rattus rattus, 2.6 g), mouse (Mus musculus, 0.5 g). (via Frontiers)

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latestworld002 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:22:25 -0500

インドの科学者Mohamed Babuが半透明のアリが色付きのシロップを食べるところを捉えた。幾つかのアリは二つの色を食べて新しい色を作り出している。

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Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India captured beautiful photos of these translucent ants eating a specially colored liquid sugar. Some of the ants would even move between the food resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs. Read more over on the Daily Mail. (via Colossal) You like? Follow me! XD

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