ABOUT 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information t... Read Full Story
The size of the all American teenager is squashing the army's get up and go and making it difficult to recruit that fighting machine the American Soldier. Even General John Shalkashvili, the former joint chief of staff is concerned "We've never had this problem of young people being obese like we have today," "We should be concerned about how this will impact this overstretched Army and its ability to recruit."Not too mention all that extra fatigue cloth we will be needing, which by the way ... Read Full Story
THE OVERPOWERING SMELL OF cheeseburgers and French fries saturated the candidate's suite at the Philadelphia Westin Hotel. About a dozen staffers shuffled around the table set up in the middle of the room where hundreds upon hundreds of five-by-seven-inch note cards were spread out in two-foot-high stacks. Palin had been locked in there for hours, cramming for her debate against Joe Biden. The biggest test of the campaign was less than a week away. On the heels of the first round of Katie Cou... Read Full Story
"I grew up with the Kellogg's Variety Pack in a family of eight and so I know about unfairness. Some mornings your beloved Raisin Bran with its crunchy chewiness is snatched away by swifter hands and you sit staring into a bowl of soggy Rice Krispies or the wretched Sugar Pops and feel resentful, cheated, abused. Some days Mother embraces socialism and cooks a pot of Cream of Wheat, take it or leave it, but you look forward to the day when you take your place in the great emporium of adult li... Read Full Story
What a disgusting country some Americans make us....Those who seem to forget what we are about in the first place.America...Bring us your poor, your starving, your disenfranchised, your huddled masses..To paraphrase Emma Lazurus. We are a nation of the melting pot. A nation of diversity, a nation of immigrants... but try to convince the white oaf Republicans of America this is the case, the poor Xenephobes or the rich hypocrites like Lou Dobbs of the Spanish wife and the affluent horsey daugh... Read Full Story
Today President Obama revealed a secret government program and announced he is prepared to spring the program on Afghanistan, bringing the troops home and letting our new team of cats take charge. The decision was held up for weeks because of worries how PETA might respond, but today the President announced, "We have met the challenge of our age, no longer will our hero's die on foreign shores. These creatures will devour the Taliban. We worried, we studied and now we act! And rest assured ci... Read Full Story
A Metaphor For AmericaThink of a Dam. It is a perfect metaphor, substantial, factual. It creates and it limits, it traps and it holds back. It preserves, protects and yet it stops the progress of time's erosion, limits the future, and expands the present. Think of this dam in some high mountain valley. The river that once roared there now trickles. Yes, we can even tie in Trickle Down with the metaphor if we wish. This dam could describe our nation in centuries of paragraphs. It could describ... Read Full Story
