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For the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Windows Vista, trying to prove in his video that "Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X".

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A great parody from Mad TV, mashing up geekery and politics.

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Last week I spend it snowboarding in the French Alps with some friends. This year, for the first time, we had like 2 small video cameras, so people were always trying to film that "Roast beef grab", the "Backside 180" or the "Indy grab".

Whenever the camera was on, my friends were taking huge risks, doing big jumps and strange techniques, in order to stay "good in the picture".

The result? Three man down: one shoulder, one ankle and a visit to a french hospital to do some x-rays due to a heavy chest pain. Fortunately, I don't give a damn for great snow movies, so all I've got was tired muscles and a rested brain.

The conclusion? Technology can hurt you, beware.

Via cbc.ca, scientists were able to cause a light pulse to travel hundreds of times faster than normal:

It raced so fast the pulse exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it.

So, it looks like João Magueijo and is Variable Speed of Light theory was right all along.

What if your games could read your mind, so you could play them by thinking about it? Futuristic? Not so.

An Australian company, Emotiv Systems, developed a headset that uses a set of sensors to detect player's thoughts, emotions and feelings, thus making it possible for games to be controlled and influenced by the mind of the player.

The headset connects wirelessly to consoles and PCs, and is not available to consumers yet, but a private demonstration can be scheduled for developers at the 2007 Game Developers Conference.

Image taken from Emotiv Systems website.

Update: The New Scientist Blog has an article about testing the headset, entitled What geek wouldn't want to be a Jedi? Worth reading.