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UK Government Official Job Site Advertises Fake 007 Position

Would you like the life of Bond?  The British Secret Intelligence Service posted a job opening online for a "Target Elimination Specialist," with the job code "007."  Unfortunately, this was fake, and taken down rapidly after being published; but made for a rather humourous slip-up regardless.

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Brain-Controlled Helicopter Takes Flight On Kickstarter

 

The Puzzlebox Orbit, a flying helicopter orb guided by brainwaves, has successfully exceeded its target funding on Kickstarter.  

Brainwave data is transmitted via a NeuroSky MindWave Mobile EEG headset to software running on either the pyramid-shaped base (called the Puzzlebox Pyramid) for the helicopter, or a tablet/smartphone.  Through this, your thoughts are turned into flight commands and your spherical helicopter takes to the skies.

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Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late, Says Human Rights Watch

With a 50-page report outlining “concerns about fully autonomous weapons, which would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians”, Human Rights Watch has called for governments of the world to pre-emptively ban what they are calling ‘killer robots’, fully autonomous killing machines.

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'Faceshift' Delivers Markerless Motion Capture Via Kinect
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'Faceshift' Delivers Markerless Motion Capture Via Kinect

So it might not deliver the kind of sophistication in motion-capture that was utilised by Team Bondi for its ground-breaking crime caper L.A. Noire – that, after all, relied on a studio set-up with 32 high-def cameras tracking a single actor’s face – but new facial animation software ‘Faceshift’ does more than an adequate job in replicating such techniques, and it relies solely on Microsoft’s Kinect.

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'The Carp And The Seagull.' A Haunting Interactive Short Film
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'The Carp And The Seagull.' A Haunting Interactive Short Film

Designer Evan Boehm has launched the interactive film The Carp and the Seagull: an innovative Web-GL-Driven video that has been described "an experiment in space and user-driven narrative".  This haunting, folktale-inspired journey between two overlapping worlds is told by rotating the scene, to reveal new insights and perspectives.

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New Skyrim DLC Revealed: Dragonborn

Xbox players of Skyrim will be receiving an early Christmas present from Bethesda: the third DLC will be coming out on the 4th of December, and it looks awesome. Sadly there is no release date yet for PC or PS3.

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Vuzix M100 Eyes Up Google Glass

It appears Google has some much-needed competition, then, in its efforts to develop an augmented-reality head-mounted display - Vuzix has just announced the M100 hands-free smartphone display and communications system.

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