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Friday, April 22, 2011

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Financial Padding shows you have money to stuff more than your mattress
Novint Xio takes gaming to a whole new level
Library books can be easily shelved with ShelvAR
Gadget Thumbnails for 20-Apr-2011
Drive-thru Funerals? You want flowers with that?

Financial Padding shows you have money to stuff more than your mattress

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT

As someone who is doing business on Ebay constantly, I find that I am constant need of packing material so I can send buyers their items.

I tend to use anything I can find, such as wadded-up newspaper, crinkled-up 8×11 inch paper, and Styrofoam peanuts, if I have any left over. Can you imagine my buyers’ surprise if their stuff came in boxes with all this cash?

Yeah, this Financial Padding is nothing more than fake wadded-up $100 bills. If you look closely, the money has a value of “00″ and Teddy Roosevelt’s face on it. It certainly gives the brief illusion that I have money to burn.

Of course, you don’t want to just burn this wadded-up money as it is reusable, recyclable, and biodegradable. I suppose you could use it for counterfeiting, but you would have to get it by a stupid clerk. I once heard a story of some guy who cut off the corners of a $100 bill and pasted them on a $1 bill, and actually got the clerk to think that it was a Benjamin. How embarrassing! (Hopefully Unnecessary Disclaimer: I am not saying that you should use Financial Padding for this.)

The Financial Padding is found at the the. site for about $15 for about 200 bills, which is enough to fill about 0.5 cubic feet.

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Novint Xio takes gaming to a whole new level

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:12 PM PDT

This is one of those postings where you should just hit the jump to watch the video, as it could revolutionize everything you know about gaming.

What you are seeing in the video is the application of the Xio from Novint. You may have heard of Novint before as they created this Falcon controller that is motion-sensitive, and great for First Person Shooter (FPS) games. The Xio is a controller that fits about the arm and designed to “be able to feel what is in the game”.

What is really terrific is how the Xio is being planned to work with some new and old video game technology. If it is affixed to a Vuzix viewer, it creates an authentic augmented and virtual reality experience. With the application of the TNGames 3rd Space Vest, the player can really feel the impacts. What is really interesting is how weapons are being developed to match this technology.

Basically, Novint’s Xio technology is really changing the game when it comes to gaming. I see a future where people put on the viewer, the vest, the Xio, and are running around and virtually shooting each other. Good gaming plus good exercise equals and a good gaming future!

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Library books can be easily shelved with ShelvAR

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:37 PM PDT

When I was in the 8th grade, I did some time in a library, shelving some books. If you have never done painstaking work like this, I highly don’t recommend it.

I remember we that this one biographies section where books had to be organized not by number, but by person. I sure could have used ShelvAR back then. ShelvAR is a augmented reality program that can read all the call numbers, and can determine if they are in the proper order. It is being developed by a team of researchers at Miami University’s Augmented Reality Research Group, and there is a video of it after the jump being demonstrated with a Galaxy Tab.

You can see that it looks at a whole shelf of books and puts an X on the one out of place. It can then direct the user to where he or she has to go to make certain there is a row of green check marks.

I can’t help but wonder why any librarian that has a tablet PC or smartphone can’t use this. Then again, could we create some shelving robot that can do this? For that matter, how long are we going to need to shelve books in a digital age? I guess libraries will still have books for the next few decades or so.

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Gadget Thumbnails for 20-Apr-2011

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT

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Drive-thru Funerals? You want flowers with that?

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:46 PM PDT

You have so many things you need to do in a day and only so many hours to do them in. Many businesses know this, and try their best to keep you moving, we have fast food, drive thru dry cleaners, drive-up bank tellers, drive in movies and curbside grocery delivery and now… wait for it… the drive thru funeral parlor.

The Robert L. Adams Mortuary in Compton, California is allowing families to put their beloved's caskets in a bulletproof glass display window that is visible to cars passing through the mortuaries drive-through lane. (bulletproof? really? why?) Watch the video after the jump.

“You can come by after work, you don’t need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and the family knows that you paid your respects,” owner Peggy Scott Adams told The Los Angeles Times. Check out the video HERE.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for speeding things up and getting stuff done, but somehow this just doesn't seem right, after all why can't they just throw Aunt Lillian on a trailer and run her past my house? That way I can really keep things moving. "Susie, turn off the TV and wave bye-bye to Aunt Lillian."

There are but a handful of drive thru funeral parlors here in the U.S. and a few more that only have closed circuit video feeds of the casket containing the dearly departed. Call me old fashioned, but I'm not dying to try it anytime soon. Sorry, but you knew that was going to be said at some point. Didn't you?

Source: www.articles.latimes.com

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