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Exploring innovations and trends across technologies,
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Books on French Cinema
Gillo Pontecorvo: The Battle of
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Pontecorvo's controversial re-creation
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print with new translation and subtitles.
Film Forum, NY. January 9-29, 2004.
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Lamps Some very expensive & fanciful views of this planet
I DID NOT RATE THIS SITE BUT IT IS PART OF THE PACKAGE
random word combin / poems /words
the source
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And the winner
From: Cary
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This is a gold mine of what looks like good info .But please !
Plesae read the disclaimers!!
Info on Action Ailment Body Area Common Name Contains
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This is the link to the page that exposes the other dirty
genes biz that may be off line off line off line
So far removed in time and place from Louisiana the Premier News journal
The 2 links below are to a massive and
well organized data base a good example
of linear & lateral presentation
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language-based development through research,
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This site is intended to serve those who share our
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Editors Note
I hope this group is doing that for the SUBJECTS benefit
and not some Secret Neo Nazi Rhodes Scholarship.
Sounds Paranoid but It has happened before can we
say Bible the fact that this group has a "creed " is no
protection from them, as if what they were doing is
really benign or beneficial.
Simply put it is the first peoples that are the true teachers
and typically of teachers victims of the state the Bible folk
may totally mean well, as much as this is posable for a western
person to see any other person as human, worthy of respect
rather than "christianizing " them.
Why not turn there attentions to them selves and perhaps
minister to there true heathen Neo Nazis of East Germany
and their grand kids?
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just in case you want to have an alt site to the Noam Chomsky Archive
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just click on this stuff and see what happens
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ARToolkit
The HIT Lab is pleased to announce that ARToolKit version 2.11 is available for free download.
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Hot ! New Products not rated yet
This stuff is absolutely nessarry
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Private DVD theater puts a floating 6-foot screen right before your eyes. It's called sleep
no clue what this is up to ED
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Subject: kustom topsites
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on
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the name says it all
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here it is Date: 18 Oct 2001 00:11:20 -0700 From: Cary Fisher Links [go to drone]
somewhere in the the ufo community site is a link to steve neil's site
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Feb. 29, 2000
UDRI RESEARCHERS DEVELOP
GLASSES-MOUNTED DISPLAY,
NEXT GENERATION OF WEARABLE COMPUTERS
DAYTON, Ohio -- A "wearable computer" could be a wristwatch that gives you stock quotes or a
belt-hooked navigator that uses satellite data to give you directions around town. Or, better yet, it could be
a small laptop that projects whatever is on the screen onto the inside of your glasses, letting you read
instructions while you finish a repair, for example, with both hands free to do the work.
It's called a "glasses-mounted display," or GMD, and it's one version of a wearable computer that soon
may be as familiar as a Game Boy.
"If you're working on something where you need two hands, you can easily look at the display to access
information and then look back at your project," said Allen R. Revels, senior system software engineer
with the human factors group of the University of Dayton Research Institute. "The whole objective is to
be able to see as much of the outside world as possible."
The human factors group, with Revels as principal investigator, is working on phase two of the wearable
computer project, slated to run through April. The Technology Partnership, a high technology innovation
and development company based in Grosse Ile, Mich., developed and patented the technology and
obtained a $700,000 small business innovative research grant funded by the Department of Defense
through the Air Force Research Laboratory to evaluate the product. Revels is testing a number of GMD
prototypes under UDRI's $250,000 subcontract.
"There are numerous technologies for glasses and goggles displays that are used for everything from flying
jets to merely telling the time," said David Bettinger, president of The Technology Partnership. "Our
advantage is that we add so little weight to the glasses. Our optics are so light-weight they're almost
covert."
The project is sponsored by the human effectiveness directorate of the Air Force Research Lab at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base. The technology grew out of the Air Force need for aircraft maintenance
personnel to have detailed repair and support information available on the flight line along with the ability
to work with both hands.
On The Technology Partnership prototype, a cable feeds from a small notebook computer to the back of
one of the earpieces of the glasses, where the cable is attached to the earpiece up to the lens. At the end
of the cable, mounted near the temple, is a small microscreen with an image that is reflected by a small
mirror to the eye.
The microscreen display is a product manufactured by Planar Inc. in Beaverton, Ore.
The display is self-illuminating, using active matrix electro-luminescence technology. The computer
display is sharp and readily apparent to the viewer in the upper right quarter of the field of vision, and
only a small portion of peripheral vision is restricted.
Except for the cable, the prototypes look much like ordinary pairs of glasses, and the display is visible
only to the wearer.
"It's very light -- about nine grams -- and when it's manufactured, the precise size of the mirror and
coating on the lens can be form-fitted to individuals to make it as effective as possible," Revels said. "The
cable would be embedded within the earpiece, and the computer could be built into a belt or held in a
fanny pack."
Now controlled by a standard, if small, keyboard, the display could also be manipulated by other controls.
Researchers are looking at trackball controls as well as more exotic controls, such as those activated by
eye or muscle movement.
Its eventual cost? "Probably the cost of a computer monitor, somewhere below $1,000," Revels
estimates. Whether or not the product has the necessary function and appeal to bring it to market will
most likely be decided within two years, he said. Evaluating commercialization of the product will be done
in phase three of the project.
Any drawbacks? "People with long eyelashes can have a problem," he said with a grin.
"It's on the leading edge of technology in that it's useful and usable," Revels said. "It's been field tested
and was found to be very useful in a mobile environment. It's been very well received by the people who
have used it."
In the future, GMD could provide hands-free, cell phone videoconferencing, where you and the person
on the other end of the line "see" each other as you talk, Revels said. The private nature of the display
could allow a stock trader to have complete confidence in the privacy of his or her trades, even those
made in the middle of a busy restaurant.
Bettinger sees a host of niche markets for the GMD technology, which could be used to provide
everything from a personal appointment reminder to "silent attack" communication for special forces.
"A marathoner could monitor his or her pulse throughout the entire race," he says. "The earpiece of the
glasses is right next to the superficial temporal artery, so you could monitor blood pressure. For
companies with a matrix management style, the display could help team members exchange information
that may not ever enter their conversation but would allow sharing of another channel of information. And
that could change the way we work."
Mobile computing has evolved over the past 20 years, as computer power and technology have become
available in smaller and smaller housings, said Revels, a 1980 graduate of Wayne High School who is
pursuing his doctorate in human factors engineering through the DAGSI (Dayton Area Graduate Studies
Institute) program.
Intrigued by technology and logic since his teen years, Revels spent 12 years in the military. For 10 of
those years, he was a member of a B-52 crew as an electronic warfare officer.
"The guy who lived across the street from me in Huber Heights was a doctor, and he gave me a slide rule
when I was 13 years old. I thought it was great. Everybody else had all those calculators, but I discovered
that I could do the same things on that slide rule."
It's not his call, he said, to determine whether the world needs more technology. "The trend is that
everyone is busier and more mobile, yet still techno-centric and connected. We have pagers and cell
phones and laptops and Internet access -- we want information at our fingertips and we want it now.
Whether that's good, bad or indifferent is not for me to say. That's for users to say."
Although other forms of wearable computers have promise, he said this is the one he'd bank on. "With all
of the technology that's out there, given the state of the art, this would probably be the one I would buy.
It's a simple way of designing things, and it seems so instinctive to do it this way. That's the beauty of it."
The University of Dayton Research Institute, the largest nonmedical reserach facility on a Catholic
university campus, employs more than 350 employees and conducts more than $40 million in sponsored
research annually through some 750 contracts.
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For media interviews, contact Allen R. Revels, a resident of Springboro, at (937) 256-9243 or via e-mail
at revels@udri.udayton.edu and David Bettinger at (734) 675-8295 or via e-mail at
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