“Terrorists aim to cause fear, and by feeling fear we’ve given them what they want.
We believe it’s possible to win the war on terror instantly. All we have to do is stop being afraid, and stop acting out of fear.”
Archive for December 2007
Sometimes the law of unexpected (positive) consequences throws up something that makes you stop, slap your forehead and ask “why didn’t I think of that?”
Hacking a Wii remote to perform Minority Report-style mid-air fingertip tracking and then extending this idea to convert any surface and a projector into an interactive whiteboard is one of those ideas. It’s the brainchild of Johnny Chung Lee who’s a post-grad researcher at Carnegie-Mellon, and he’s not just a Wii hacker – there’s a 45-foot tall slingshot, a $14 Steadicam and high speed photography of smashing beer bottles. Truly, a renaissance man for the geek era…
