Cerebral Stasis

It's certainly a brilliant twist, Saint. Furthermore, you did an excellent job with the cutout, as well as the text, although the abstract leaves a bit to be desired. However, it looks as though some of the hair of the girl on the far right has been cut off.

Contrary to the first post, the guy wasn't wearing a big chicken suit; it was a "Baseball Bat Boy" costume.I enjoyed both games, but neither qualify as my favorites. I think the whole bullet time thing is overrated, although it's quite hard to win without it.As was mentioned, Max Payne certainly has a unique cutscene style, and that's a credit to it as a game.

Aeris is awesome.I think you did a pretty good job with most of the, although I agree that the blurring in the megaman one isn't all that great.Y'know, I've always wondered who came up with the idea to call a little mushroom "Toad"; that's just such a stupid name.Oh, and it's "within"; not "with in."

It's because few Easterners (if any) knew of the Americas, but quite a few had gone in that general direction and never returned, so they assumed that there was some kind of dropoff or monster that stopped the sailors, and noone was brave enough to set sail and find out.With the little scientific knowledge they had, the concept of a flat world made perfect sense at the time, just like how our knowledge of the earth being round makes perfect sense now. All one can do is take all avaliable facts and derive a conclusion based on the evidence at hand.Remember, we're talking about a time during which there were four elements; earth, sky, water, and fire.

The chances of us finding life elsewhere within our lifetimes is very small, unless some superior race comes seeking contact (or conquest), assuming it's even possible, of course.Personally, I would love it if life (not necessarily sentient) was discovered elsewhere; it would mean that space really was worth exploring (for reasons besides the view; if Earth had the only life in the universe, what would be the point of exploring?) and that those science fiction fantasies may hold some merit. Furthermore, it would debunk some things that I am really tired of arguing over (evolution, creation, etc.).

I'm not a junkie for either Star Trek nor Star Wars, but I've always found technology-intense episodes (in Star Trek) interesting; specifically, episodes concerning the Borg (in episode 16 of season 6 of Star Trek Voyager, it must have been a real pain to get those borg special effects on that baby "borg").

A very interesting article, sandbox. Thanks for the information.I'd just like to mention that Star Trek actually uses "light years" for most of it's measurements; Star Wars, on the other hand, uses parsecs ("It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than five parsecs." - Han Solo).

The earth won't be another day after tomorrow scene, unless something (such as an asteroid or large nuclear warhead) blocks the sun's rays. Otherwise, there will always be something to warm the Earth; the earth and the air isn't absorbing heat any less now than it has in the past, so there would be nothing to cool the earth to the degree shown in that (stupid) movie.

I don't doubt that there are floating cars, but a car that had the abilities of a submersible would be very ugly, not to mention very expensive. If it was ever majorly manufactured at all, it would only be for the very wealthy.

For rich people, that is; noone else can afford a toy like that, and as a result, not enough people will purchase the product to allow the price to drop to a level that very many people can afford, so it will never be a big thing, regardless of how "cool" it may be. As a matter of fact, one could buy a ticket into space via Virgin Galactic for less.

There won't be sub-cars anytime soon; since internal combustion engines require oxygen to work; a resource that isn't very abundant underwater. Furthermore, most lakes that I have seen aren't exactly wheel-accessible; how would one get the car out of the water again, save from mounting air tanks on the car to allow it to re-surface.

Soon a car won't be just a car.  It will be a boat, a plane, a suit case, a house, etc;

I don't know about a car-briefcase (this isn't the Jetsons), but quite a few people have already used their vehicles as homes, and they have been for decades (I think it was pioneered by the hippies).
Having a car-boat serves little purpose (aside from veing 'cool'), unless the car can travel great distances (over a Great Lake, for example).

Chances are it's not FM-capable because of the power requirements; one can make a "crystal" radio that can pick up AM radio signals without a battery, but, since FM transmissions are on a higher frequency, one would need more power to pick them up; enough power that a simple battery (assuming said radio uses a battery) wouldn't provide enough power to run it (at least not for long, anyway).As was said, this would be excellent for emergencies, but otherwise, I doubt it would be the best choice for listening to radio casually.

It's not just that your render is very simple, but your abstract is very poor as well. I'd recommend trying for more detail/variety.

The problem, Sirius, is that it's much more efficient to train someone to use a sniper rifle than to spend the time/money that it would take to create a device that would lock on, even if it guaranteed a perfect headshot.And, as far as I know, brian waves don't come out of your head like radio waves come out of an antenna; they're simply the frequency at which the electricity within one's brain is operating at, and as such, they aren't detectable over a long distance (unless there would be some way to detect electrical fields, in which case anything that was alive or consumed power would give a signature, causing the readings to be blinded, like looking into normal light wearing night vision goggles, and the case would be the same for heat vision, since anything at all that gave off heat would show up as well).

I wouldn't be so pessimistic, Arigato. It may be insanely expensive/out of reach now, but eventually other discoveries will make the leap in technology smaller and smaller until it will finally be practicable. Whether or not it's possible, none of us will be alive to find out.

I don't trust little programs that claim to speed up one's computer (especially not "free" ones). The only programs that claim to speed my internet that I trust are ones such as System Mechanic, which includes an internet optimiser feature (it doesn't install any specific programs, but instead supposedly configures your connection to work at peak efficiency, and it seems to make a difference).

I don't think that these will ever really catch on in the PC market; the HDD that we have now are still being improved upon, and they have a huge head-start.  There is, on the high end market, a 1Tb HDD that can transfer data at 3Gb/s. I just don't there are any advantages to getting holographic storage over disk storage.

As I, and the article, have said, this technology isn't trying to replace the HDD technology; it's instead an alternative form of portable data storage, which will be necessary, since there is a limit to the amount of data that a HDDVD/Blu-ray disk can hold. There's always a step further.

Have a look at this device. It just might work. It is faster than the laptop I am currently using to post this message and way smaller / lighter. Just might do what they are looking for.
$149 US ??? That's cheap. But it will require millions of dollars to research and program, I'd guess.

A very interesting find, jlhaslip, but keep in mind that prices of new products always drop. If it could use a computer of that power, some an internal electrical system (using electricity generated by the body/brain), a program that could calculate the conversion algorithms, and some micro-thin wire to carry the current, this method may actually be avaliable (read: possible) at the present date, for probably not too much more than it would cost to have any other type of major surgery (still a lot, however).

Yes i have heard much about this. It actually developed from fake arms or legs that took back movement and turned it into arm movement. They have perfected this technology to ge safer by using gold rods or something like that to case the wires so the hazard of the wires is reduced. I do believe the operation does not cost too much but i don't have exact numbers to post, there might be several government web sites on this development or some hospitals might post thier research on the web.

Are you referring to the technology that goes with converting nerve impulses into eletric data, and then back to nerve pulses, or to the currently-used mechanical limbs (hooks) that move, as you said, by flexing one's shoulder?

Zorkaplex - as soon as you change something, it affects something else; if you artificially affected every major storm that came along it would screw something up; there is a reason for the storms occuring, at the very least it is lowering the human population.

I'm not so sure about this. Although it's possible that hurricanes may serve some purpose, I cannot imagine what it may be (it doesn't stir up the ocean, since the turbulance is only on the surface, and it doesn't really help the land in any way, and it certainly doesn't affect Earth's rotation around the sun, as you suggested earlier).

The only truely effective way to stop a large storm would be to either bombard it with a huge warm front, or a huge cold front that would counteract the winds currently at work and thus cause the storm to be neutralized. All storms, after all, are a result of warm and cold fronts/waters interacting with each other.

Oh, yeah; we'd better be sure to keep sharp objects out of people's bodies, or it may accidently strip the coating off of the wires, causing one to experience a huge and painful electrical shock. [/sarcasm]Shadow, the "wires" wouldn't be of the conventional type; they would probably be almost microscopic and most likely wouldn't be coated by anything. The electricity running through one's nerves isn't enough to produce an electric shock; the current would be small enough that the electricity would have a shorter path by travelling along the wire, versus the longer path of jumping to the surrounding flesh, which it wouldn't have enough power to do, anyway. For example, one cannot get a real shock from a triple-A battery; there's just not enough power.

This technology certainly sounds possible, but, as you mentioned, it would be very expensive, so the chances of it being used is relevant to exactly how much it would cost (would the cost of the damages caused by the storm outweigh the cost to prevent the storm?). Naturally, most countries/businesses will take the most economically-efficient route; money makes the world go 'round.

I don't see the point here. I think it might acctually make the process more real and quicker (no typing, but talking, no clicking but asking questions, etc.)

Do you think it would be quicker to say "computer; open search corridor" which would open up a big 3D hallway that you would then walk down, stopping to open little 3D cabinets and look at little 3D folders with files in them, or to open a web browser, type "https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl;, enter a search quere, click a link, and then view what you want?

Search engines, no matter how verbally acute, will never really be able to search much better than current search engines, since there are a few basic things that make up a search engine, and while the methods can be changed, they really can't be improved upon (how could you make a search for "ice cream" bring up a certain web site any faster using verbal commands and a really smart computer than by using a text search engine such as Google? The only way to narrow the results would be to cross-reference them, but speaking it wouldn't be any faster or more accurate than typing it). Furthermore, it would mean people would no longer have privacy. I like the ability to input information into my computer without everyone in the building knowing what the information is.

Here's a better example; operating systems are currently more or less flat interfaces with icons that lead to different programs/files. Would there really be any advantage to instead having an operating system that appears to be a long hallway with branching doors that one would open to access information instead? It would just mean more processing power, more time, and more information would be necessary to get what would be the same result.

People may make things just because they are "cool", but they won't widely distribute them unless they have some basic use (whether it be fasion, entertainment, etc.). What would be the use of having a 3D world representation of an operating system, save to "look cool"?

I don't expect that will ever happen, Vegikachu; it's inefficient and unnecessary.And I don't see why you would think that one would be "like an android" after being wired up; true, it may take a lot of processing power, but all the wires/chip would do is act as a go-between so that the damaged nerve tissue may be bypassed; it's hardly going to completely rewire one's body (once again, inefficient and unnecessary).

Chris Reeves' little tragedy is overrated. There are hundreds of paralized people that noone hears about, but when superman goes and finds himself hardly super, the whole world hears.Anyway, one wouldn't "think about moving" per se; one would move the same way they did before being paralized. It makes perfect sense, although hopefully they will either develop a method for regenerating/repairing/replacing damaged/dead/lost nerve tissue, or will be able to make the computers/nodes completely internal and much smaller, so one could go about their daily lives without needing to be plugged in like a vaccum cleaner.