I guess he bought a segway... to his coffin.

*sigh* I'll show^W^W^W^W segway myself the door.

And if you're interested in following up on this perhaps with a community of open source hardware advocates and engineers, you might want to try something like the open manufacturing mailing list. "We bring free and open source software development methodology to the physical world."

Some of the more interesting threads have been documented here.

- Bryan

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces. Be warned that TechShop is a commercial entity in this market, while many hackerspaces are non-profit. TechShop is a franchise with a gym membership model, so with it comes the same pains.

please flood the emotiv.com forums with requests to go open source. I would also be interested in funding a knock-off. I have manufacturing space and some hackers already on it.. but in the eternal words of Moff Jerjerrod, "I need more men."

You should try typing out the lecture. Here are my results through high school and college (and for the record, you're all wimps and sissies):

biology notes
Building Brains (it was a quasi "ai" class)
psych
other crap

Also: learn LaTeX.

About damn time, I say. For the past few years I have browsed the web with hundreds of tabs at a time. Firefox tends to crash after 50 tabs. Opera tends to crash at about 450 tabs. Some of this varies with RAM, but we're all familiar with the firefox single-thread issues, which really puts a downer on things. Let the window manager do its job: tabbing is for losers. Also what's with the insistence on keeping all tabs in RAM anyway?

I've been working on some scripts to use with uzbl .. in particular, I hate the web, surfraw is great, if it only worked. Web scraping utilities don't always work because webmasters insist on changing layouts, templates, HTML, and don't understand how to make long-term APIs for their content. So, my plan is to make something like xpather (from firefox) that allows a user to select elements on a page and figure out the xpath to retrieve the data. This can be dumped into a standard scraper definition file format or something, and then uzbl only has to pop up whenever some idiot changes a web page. Until then, these scrapers harvest data for me.

Then all of us web-haters can send these xpath scraper template files around and live in harmony, or something.

This is very exciting as it could point to a future where you can literally hack your own brain.

Do you have a backup?

You have to sandbox it. You do not want to randomly delete a random neurotransmitter receptor from the brain, as an example. You need to make experiments that test this on organotypical slices of neurons [or grow brains in a jar]. Kind of like in a neurofarm. But the problem with neurofarms is that you need to have millions of nodes of experimentation, or massive Markram simulations because of the number of chemical possibilities at all of the receptor sites, plasma membranes, dendritic/axonic connectional possibilities, minicolumn rules, etc. How are you going to get that many nodes, that many instances of experimentation? Sounds like a job for a clanking replicator, really. Maybe automated manufacturing. And while you are working on this, how about some open source rTMS?