Showing posts with label high tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high tech. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2010

See no evil, hear no evil, blurg no evil: Genetic algorithm user interface

Programming an uber-computer to complete a specific task is SOOOO last millenium. You should let the computer evolve its own solution to your problem by selecting the ten least lame solutions out of ten thousand, then propagating each of those via random code recombinations and "mutations" until you get a good program. Meanwhile, you can be kicking back having a quark swirl on the rocks. The user interface for this process can be tricky, and we have found that if there are three cheeky robot faces that talk back at you, you can guage how the program is evolving based on how the robot head personalities develop. It is an abstract but entertaining interface.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fancy New Clutchless Manual Transmission

All the convenience and ease of an automatic, with all the freedom and control of a manual. Super advanced hi-tech new materials allow nearly seamless on-the-fly computer controlled shifting even when travelling at warp 8. No smoking near the transmission though. Normally we wouldn't object, but...

Item# woodi: 5.73925 Mega-shekels

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Ether-space Answering Machine


Don't you hate it when you miss an important ether-space brainwave call? Everyone should be equipped with an answering machine, so you can play back all the important messages you got while playing in the holodeck or reading the paper in the minstrel's quarters. USB 629,000,000 compatible.
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Item# RUfn%@*^_i? : 15 Antares Centimes.