Welcome back, everyone. Another eventful week just zipped by, and another week of me trying to teach my cat not to tug my keyboard off my desk when I am trying to work. Quick question, how many of you followed the news about NASA’s mission to slam a rocket hull into a crater? If they do end up finding water up there, that’s just one more step to a moon base. I would completely opt to live on a moon base.
According to Engadget, we may soon see tangible interfaces other than just your standard touch screen. A group in Japan has begun developing an interface that uses silica based objects and polarized light to control their tech demos. The technology works on the principle that when the silica pieces are squeezed or stretched they allow the polarized light through and a camera positioned overhead reads this change then reacts accordingly. Future designs are going to attempt to integrate the camera into the screen itself, but for now…go watch Engadget’s video and try not to laugh at the squishy face demo they start off with.
Apple is owning up to a fairly large bug in their latest operating system dubbed Snow Leopard. It seems for those who upgraded to the latest OS, you absolutely do not want to log into a guest account. What happens is if you log into your guest account, log out, and log back into your own account: your home directory is deleted. All your music, documents, and whatever was stored there is gone. Now, this bug doesn’t happen to every one who has Snow Leopard, but do you really want to try and see if your Mac is one that will be affected at the risk of your personal data being deleted? Didn’t think so. Apple has stated they are currently working on a fix for this bug. Personal recommendation from a tech head? Disable the guest account on your Mac to prevent it from being used until Apple releases a fix for this.
Now, amidst the news of President Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and a woman being arrested for using the poke feature on Facebook I found something that actually intrigued me a bit. Probably caught my eye due to being a life long gamer, but still…any news of a World of Warcraft movie is something I am going to read. I have heard mentions of this before on the net and knew it was in the works, but now there is at least one confirmed name behind the writing to the script: Robert Rodat. If you don’t know who that is, he was a writer for the film “Saving Private Ryan.” Certainly have my interest, and yes I realize this bit of news is not technically a piece about technology but to be fair this is a website that is very video game oriented. 😛
The morning is still young, and I already feel worn out from battling with my cat for control of the keyboard. I think now is a good time to sign out for the week, go plop down on my couch, and turn on an episode of House M.D. before I boot up my Xbox 360 to dive into a few games. I’ll see everyone next week, and likely I’ll be sporting a copy of Borderlands by then.
