Borat, my opinion

Let me put it this way - Its a gud movie, you can watch it, you'll enjoy it, you'll have some gud laughs. But you cannot watch it again. Its a bit too grose.

Is india's gain America's loss?

An interesting article in the forbes magazine: India revisited

"..Does it mean more or fewer jobs for Americans? It means different jobs, different opportunities, different markets. And realizing that our competitors look very much like we do."

Sorry, I dont have any personal comments on this one. I like reading articles on India shining however true or false they are.

Windows CE 6.0 released

I dont know why I saw it, but i did. I saw the windows embedded ce 6.0 release keynote.

It is very interesting though. I am very far from anythign related to CE, so cannot really evaluate or comment on how good it is for the embedded systems development community. Can developers now easily develop cheaper embedded devices for the living room that can probably connect to the internet and show things off on the tv? I am not sure, but the keynote did make it seem quite easy to build a picture frame (based on an ARM processor I think) which connected to the internet and pulled images off live.com and flickr.

Robo sapiens

Yesterday I bumped into an episode 'Robo sapiens' on The Discovery channel. Ever thought The Matrix is impossible? What if you could have two extra robotic arms or two extra legs or wheels that operated with your mind as if they were a part of your body? What if you could calculate as fast as a PC? Check this out- http://science.discovery.com/tuneins/robosapien.html. It could be true in the future.

Exaggerations aside, the show showed a person paralyzed under the neck. He was implanted with electrodes under his scalp which sent signals to a computer which decoded the signals. He could control the cursor on the PC, play a game of ping pong just using his bran. He felt the cursor wa part of his body. It also showed a monkey which controlled a robotic arm with its brain, using implants under its scalp. Its amazing how teh brain trains itself to control the these external obejects. All the technogy has to do is to decode the signals from the brain and convert them to a meaningful and consistent output (which is not a simple problem ofcourse) and leave the rest to the brain to train itself.

The possibilities for the future are endless and scary. There was only one thing funny about the show, the people who were implanted with these artificial things are called Cyborgs (??). Whoever came up with that name. Sounds like an alien. 'And thus he became a cyborg'.