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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

Steve Jobs: Here’s To the Crazy Ones

Steve Jobs did the voice over of the first in a series of commercials that Apple aired in their 1997 Think Different ad campaign. It was just released so I will post the YouTube code below.

I guess I like it because it speaks to me. I may not be a genius but I bit crazy. Hey, that’s one out of two.

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By Bruce Eisner

Sailing to a New Island

Link for this Post: Island Web Counterculture Guide

In my last post, I told you I was going to give you a tour of the website projects that have I have working on recently. I will start with the oldest of the websites I have created and the one that has kept me busy just this week.

Island Web was launched in 1995, on of the first psychedelic culture websites on the Internet. at Island.Org The site began as the official site of the Island Group, a Santa Cruz California Group which held Bay Area potluck, organized conferences and published 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

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