@Roklimber: It turns out to get near 1G with the spin technique you either need something really really huge spinning at a comfortable rate or something a comfortable size (to build) which spins at an uncomfortable rate (to ride in). Also precession may be a problem but I am not totally sure on that one.

@Evafortuna: what if the square is Hooloovoo, a super-intelligent shade of the color blue?

@lorq: agreed. I understand/accept a lot of the motivations behind abstract work but I feel a lot of it is just between the artist and the work itself (which is nice sometimes) whereas figurative work kind of lets others in easier (which is nice sometimes too). It just seems that there is SO MUCH contemporary…

@indrawnperson: exactly! by the way, there are all kinds of cool things you can do with these cameras... look forward to a pretty awesome next few years in computer vision systems.

@thebergs2010: You know how they give you that little plastic paperclip thing to pin on your shirt to show you paid to get in?

There is one of these soap corpses on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Along with lots of other interesting specimens... For example one jar is labeled "A Piece of John Wilkes Booth"

@Variatas: haha... I was attempting to give some background and context for the techniques and technology behind the device and commercial system.

@Mr_Quackers: and therefore it contains the most interesting tech information you never learned...?

This is a very useful sensor as far as the kind of data it gives you and what you can potentially do with it. MS and PrimeSense have done an exceptional job with the sensor hardware and the sensor data processing, and finally the computer vision part.

@indrawnperson: The kind of technique that the kinect uses to see 3D is called "structured lighting". Structured lighting techniques generally involve a projector which projects a light pattern (structured light) onto a scene, and then a camera which takes a picture of the lit scene. Since you have a-priori…

@videobeagle: I'd say his most downright respectable moment was in the battle of Hoth. In that battle alone he was probably worth decades of Jedi Councils.

@videobeagle:

@Arken: hrm, reasonable.

why would a jedi master need to mark the directions of the on/off switch on his own hand built lightsaber with little triangles?

I get the same feeling from this that I did this one time when I witnessed a kazoo virtuoso.

I have a thick mediterranean beard and use a straight razor with plain soap or just wet. Shaving dry is possible if the blade is very fresh but it's not really badass, just kind of bad, as it takes like twice as long and is less comfortable...

@crazypills77: What a coincidence, or not... he attacked me this exact same way (matter of taste posed in absolutes, troll-like, with imagined provocation) a few days ago, except instead of being "pompus" I was an "oversensitive twat".

@Smeagol92055: the heart-shaped patch of skin over the heart is a clever touch.

@Delphinus100: agreed on the rail analogy.

it looks like it's technically a third person point of view, not the user's first person point of view. besides filming and simultaneously displaying your point of view to yourself would be redundant.