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You know, I’ve seen the FBI Warning at the front of videos maybe 10,000 times, but never really paid attention to what it says.
Wow. Who knew?
Read the fine print,
This is dF
Wow. Who knew?
Read the fine print,
This is dF
Dec. 8th, 2008
AMPUTATION MADE EASY AND (RELATIVELY) FUN
Dec. 8th, 2008 10:53 amITEM: A British surgeon volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo performs a life-saving arm amputation by receiving SMS instructions from a doctor in London.
The patient – a 16-year-old boy whose arm was bitten off by a hippo while fishing, forcing the doctor to remove the rest of the arm at the shoulderblade – made a full recovery.
ITEM: Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have made Guitar Hero into a tool for amputees being fitted with the next generation of artificial arms.
Wonderful things we can do with technology these days.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I fully admit that when I read the first story, my first thought was: “Hippos can DO that?”
I’m sorry.
Beware of hippos,
This is dF
The patient – a 16-year-old boy whose arm was bitten off by a hippo while fishing, forcing the doctor to remove the rest of the arm at the shoulderblade – made a full recovery.
ITEM: Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have made Guitar Hero into a tool for amputees being fitted with the next generation of artificial arms.
With a few electrodes and some very powerful algorithms, amputees can hit all the notes of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” using only the electrical signals from their residual muscles.
Wonderful things we can do with technology these days.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I fully admit that when I read the first story, my first thought was: “Hippos can DO that?”
I’m sorry.
Beware of hippos,
This is dF
ROLLER DISCO: THE PINBALL GAME
Dec. 8th, 2008 09:54 pmToday in Roller Skate Week, we continue the roller-disco theme with – what else? – the official Roller Disco pinball machine.
Which is not only perfect for a craze that could only have happened in the 70s, but also proves the axiom that no trend can be declared a permanent part of the pop culture lexicon until it gets its own pinball game.
DISCLAIMER: That axiom probably expired around 1995 or so. Which is a goddamn shame. Pinball is the perfect game. Why I wouldn’t give two cents for yr fancy Xbox 360s and PSPs and 3D graphics engines and motion sensors. Okay, sure, I enjoy a good round of Bomberman and Asphalt 3: Street Rules like anyone else, and the Nintendo Wii baseball and bowling games are pretty whiz-bang and all, but give me a silver ball, two flippers and a plunger any day. Nothing – apart from the first time you ever tasted someone else’s nipple – matches the sheer thrill of achieving Multiball and hearing the THOCK! of free credit awards.
Or am I jabbering senselessly like yr drunk uncle again?
It’s all in the wrist,
This is dF
Which is not only perfect for a craze that could only have happened in the 70s, but also proves the axiom that no trend can be declared a permanent part of the pop culture lexicon until it gets its own pinball game.
DISCLAIMER: That axiom probably expired around 1995 or so. Which is a goddamn shame. Pinball is the perfect game. Why I wouldn’t give two cents for yr fancy Xbox 360s and PSPs and 3D graphics engines and motion sensors. Okay, sure, I enjoy a good round of Bomberman and Asphalt 3: Street Rules like anyone else, and the Nintendo Wii baseball and bowling games are pretty whiz-bang and all, but give me a silver ball, two flippers and a plunger any day. Nothing – apart from the first time you ever tasted someone else’s nipple – matches the sheer thrill of achieving Multiball and hearing the THOCK! of free credit awards.
Or am I jabbering senselessly like yr drunk uncle again?
It’s all in the wrist,
This is dF
