ian unspoken

If you have been disappointed by the recent issue about Mike Guglielmucci, do read this! Love!
Why Do Christian Ministers Fail?
Mal Fletcher on Mike Guglielmucci

This picture was taken an hour ago at the BP station across the road.

$1.719/litre petrol. It’s not even the RON100 or even RON95. What has the world become?

UPDATE: Sydney fuel prices reach nearly $1.72

** Gosh! I haven’t been updating. 3 more papers before Winter Break! **

CeBIT Australia will be on at Darling Harbour Convention Centre from Tuesday(today) till Thursday. I will be exhibiting the Sunswift III solar car with the UNSW Solar Racing Team! See me there on Wednesday afternoon.

Emotiv CEO and co-founder Nam Do contemplate the EPOC headset.
Photo: Albert Chau

New game gizmo uses mind control
Asher Moses
May 7, 2008 - 2:07PM

An Australian company is gearing up to release a computer headset that allows people to control video games using only the power of their minds.

Emotiv Systems, founded by four Australian scientists in 2003, will release the $US299 ($315) EPOC headset on the US market this year. Australians will be able to order it online.

Featuring 14 sensors that measure electrical impulses from the brain, the headset - which plugs into the PC’s USB port - will enable games to register facial expressions, emotions and even cognitive thoughts, allowing players to perform in-game actions just by visualising them.

The headset works in a similar way to voice recognition, in that it must first be calibrated using Emotiv’s software to recognise patterns in the user’s electrical brain impulses, which are used to perform 30 preset actions.

When the player performs those same thoughts in the game the software knows to associate them with the correct action, such as rotate object or push object.
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Ah. Now I’m feeling a lot better.

I have been sooo busy for the past fortnight… finally have the time to breathe. Starting this year, UNSW’s teaching period is reduced to 12 weeks (from 14) but fees have gone up approximately 10%. It seems that most of my courses are not acclimatizing the shorter duration of the sessions. I hope I can pull through this session… Anyway, guess what I have been up to???

Kah Wei, Ee Laine and I were invited over to the Lings’ new home at Stanhope Gardens. We had STEAMBOAT for dinner! Yes, it was my first steamboat here in Australia. It was nice catching up with them.

I’m also currently involved in the UNSW Solar Racing Team. It is so cool! I guess I’m going to be writing algorithms and optimizing the maximum power point trackers (MPPTs) to maximize the efficiency of the photo voltaic panels. Hopefully I would get to go showcase the car at CeBIT Australia and fly somewhere to race the car with the team. Did I just say fly? I love travelling! Most of all, I feel that joining the team would help me understand what I am studying more by putting theory into practice. I’m also planning to apply for an internship position at Intel Penang for summer.

UNSW Sunswift III Gallery