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- awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -3/+34Was anyone else expecting the text editor /usr/bin/pico?
- WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12That's nothing; emacs now includes its own OS, a local copy of the internet, and a nuclear submarine. Sure beats the hell out of this puny editor...
- sammy22b06, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10here, let me just grab the soap, I need to lube up my computer.
- gpmidi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I was too. But its all good since I'm a VIM guy.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Man, text editors are getting really advanced...
- beforeIforget, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Let's not forget about Nano
- omenmedia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yes
- NoNamesLeft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This guy is just trying to score some SEO, seen him on many stories with link to the site, digg him down we don't want to see this crap on Digg.
- nullx42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2vi OG reprezenting
- FireAtWill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Best. Ouija. Board. Ever.
How scary would that be for someone who didn't know? - epistemological, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wow I remember playing with his other project Audiopad in the M.I.T. media lab.
- bias, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Hmm, I've no beef against new technologies and I listened to the guy talk in the video. It's just that it really does nothing to improve on "planning cellphone towers", the only thing it does is make the process of planning less precise using physical objects. Of course, we will probably find something interesting things to do with this technology, but in the mean time or on what he's showing us, it added absolutely nothing valuable.
- DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3they need to make pucks that can blow each other up, then you can play starcraft.
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Emacs is a great OS. The only thing it lacks is a decent editor
- nullx42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MS NOATPAAD! :3
- ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Hopefully the hard drive is nowhere near the magnets while all of this is happening...
- awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1vim > emacs
Do I really even have to say it? - gpmidi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Let the flaming begin...
- ttam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How exactly is this an improvement over a software based implementation like multi-touch? Seems pretty cumbersome to me. I could see them making some interesting bar games out of it though.
- bias, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2in which way does it really benifit planning cellphone tower exactly? I don't see anything it does that a software program can't do better.
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wizard's chess!
- sittered, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3This is a perfect example of applying technology to make something more primitive.
- Sakumi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well that's the most useless thing I've seen on digg all day. You can use soap to make the pucks go faster.. wow. You can use a weight to stop them too!!! Amazing.
- Mockylock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Pretty hi-tech "barriers"
They use soap and water as a lubricant. That's hi-tech as well, As long as you use big words, it's scientific. I used to do this with speaker and stomper magnets on my grandmother's coffee table. - MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Wow i've been spending too much time here. At first I thought someone modded an old pico
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Pico ) to do complex tasks. My cousin had one. It's such a guilty pleasure that thing. Especially the richard scarry game. Or it WAS at least when i was like thirteen. - rastakid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Ohoh...
/me sees a vi-emacs-pico-mcedit flamewar coming up... *dugs* - crash128, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Wow. He moved physical objects based on a rear-projected computer display. That's pretty cool.
This is like getting a look at v1.0 of electricity. There's gotta be like a million uses for this thing (I myself can't think of any, but I'm not that smart). And if it can be done in 2d, 3d can't be far behind (via hooks and trellises, of course).
Planes on an aircraft carrier - they use those cool little physical gizmos to represent jets & helos. You bring it up on deck, s/w leaves behind a mark - not done yet, but then s/w moves icon to physical obj when marked as done.
Nice demo - didn't crash. - ceralor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Thanks for -not- listening to the explanation in the video. It helps account for things difficult to quantify. Plus, it's more interactive. Besides, what's your beef with new technology?
- daktorin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0All that crap could easily be done in software, dugg down for lameness
- cmysites, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Sort of cool, reminds me a little bit of the soccer robots - trying to do something but really just bumping around. This project might be cool if it somehow incorporated bumptop.
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http://www.cmyos.com - free online operating system - jcarlock, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Thats really impressive. What is the base OS...?
- fmlive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Buried for duplicate story.
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