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Brain Computer Interface Moves into the Mainstream

In the year and a half since I posted Control Your Computer With Your Brainwaves — TED Conference Video which highlighted a presentation at the Ted Conference by Tan Lee,  from the EEG biofeedback device developer Emotive Systems the development of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has accelerated at an amazing rate. In fact the acronym BCI is used so widely that when I saw it the first few times on some of the sites I am going to mention in this post, I was not sure what it represented. For example, there is a UK blog called thinktech with the tagline Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

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10 Things You Probably Did Not Know About Steve Jobs

I have not been posting much but this story is so good, I had to share it immediately which is close to 4 AM. Like many others, I have been feeling sad about the passing of Steve Jobs. Jobs died at age 56 which is about 6 years younger than I am right now and about the same age as my younger sister. When I lived in Santa Cruz California, I met a guy who became a regular at my Island parties named Dan Kotke. Dan was one of the earliest employees of Apple and told me a story about how Jobs had Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Singularity and the BrinBot

Link for this Post: In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday by Ashlee Vance in New York Times

Whether you are a technophobe or a technophile will ultimately shape your reaction to this lengthy and wide-ranging article about the latest activities of the singularity crowd.

The BrinBot of the story is a robot remotly controlled by non-other than Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. The robot provided entertainment for attenees at a recent nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University.

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By Bruce Eisner

Still Blogging and Some Changes

Hello world. You may have noticed that I have not posted much here recently. But do not worry, I am still  blogging.

I'm making some changes to  this blog. I'll introduce you to a few of them in this post.

I took my Mindware Forum blog on personal growth technology which has coexisted with Vision thing in the http://bruceeisner.com/mindware since I stared writing them in 2003. and moved it to its own domain at http://mindwareforum.com. 

That is still a bit of a work in progress and I have spent a lot of time just getting the programming plumbing right with Read more »

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