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videogamenostalgia: “Defend Your Home With Your Very Own Portal...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:23:37 +0900

“Defend Your Home With Your Very Own Portal 2 Turret”

Valve and the merchandise vendor, Gaming Heads, has teamed up together to bring you the latest in nerdy décor. The Aperture turret stands at approximately 16 inches tall and includes a motion sensor that activates the eye light of your deadly friend. The turret is constructed of poly-stone, and is hand painted and finished. The statue also comes packed in a foam interior full coloured box with a validation card that ensures your product is genuine.

The exclusive version of this turret features a sound chip which plays in-game sounds from Portal 2, but has unfortunately already sold out (however you can be put on a wait list). The standard turrets are still available for $299.99 each, but numbers are limited and will be given on a first come first sever basis.

(via Game Informer, Gaming Heads)

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Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:21:18 +0900

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Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:18:10 +0900

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va1or: SLS in Gold

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:16:35 +0900

va1or:

SLS in Gold

carshack: Mercedes SLS

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:15:18 +0900

carshack:

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The Clash of Ecosystems – The life and death of mobile platforms

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:12:09 +0900

The Clash of Ecosystems – The life and death of mobile platforms :

futuristgerd:

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Google Co-Founder Demos Google Glasses -- Using Skydivers

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:09:54 +0900

huffposttech:

This. Was awesome.

More here.

Google Working on Simulating the Human Brain - semanticweb.com

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:09:42 +0900

Google Working on Simulating the Human Brain - semanticweb.com:

smarterplanet:

(N.B. IBM Research is also well along on various aspects of AI, such as Watson, and a new generation of cognitive computing chips and other frontiers of neuroscience, supercomputing and nanotechnology)

John Markoff of the New York Times reports, “Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain. There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.”

He continues, “The neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which is actually no frivolous activity. This week the researchers will present the results of their work at a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Google scientists and programmers will note that while it is hardly news that the Internet is full of cat videos, the simulation nevertheless surprised them. It performed far better than any previous effort by roughly doubling its accuracy in recognizing objects in a challenging list of 20,000 distinct items. The research is representative of a new generation of computer science that is exploiting the falling cost of computing and the availability of huge clusters of computers in giant data centers. It is leading to significant advances in areas as diverse as machine vision and perception, speech recognition and language translation.”