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Jason Fried, the CEO of 37signals, spoke at the Collaborative Technologies Conference on Tuesday. HIs presentation was called "Small is Beautiful" and it's now available at this link.

Quoted: Collaboration Loop

Ed Fries is on the board of this Australian company. He told me about this cool technology that measures EEG's and uses as inputs to control a computer (initially, for gaming).

Chris and I have actually tried doing our own EEG recording. The problem of both sensitivity, and noise rejection make it a difficult thing to do in a non-laboratory setting. Emotiv must have figured out something to address this.

Quoted: It enables game developers to attach dozens of specific thoughts and emotions to many different actions in their game. For example, they can enable players to move an object in a game without the use of a keyboard or joystick, make their character smile when they smile, or require that a player stays calm in order to ensure his or her character remains undiscovered in a stealth game.

Quoted: It enables game developers to attach dozens of specific thoughts and emotions to many different actions in their game. For example, they can enable players ...

Its closed :-(.

Apparently issues with new management at Neumos, and they are closed.

Ed's Bio on the Emotiv web site.

Quoted: Ed Fries, Director
Ed Fries got his start in the 1980s, developing video games for the Atari 800. In 1986, after a short detour for a BS in Computer Science, he joined Microsoft and spent the next ten years as one of the founding developers of Excel and Word, and then later as the creator of Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years, he grew his team from fifty to over twelve-hundred people, published more than 100 games (including more than a dozen million-plus sellers), co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the interactive entertainment business.
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In 2004, Ed left Microsoft, and now he enjoys spending time with his wife and young sons, as well as consulting with a broad range of publishers and game developers from all over the world.

Ed Fries took these pictures from Charles Simonyi's launch into space.

Quoted: Pictures from Moscow and Baikonur Kazakhstan from the Charles Simonyi launch.

I don't like it but it is clever.

Quoted: STEAMED PORK MEATBALLS