I wrote about the intelligent prosthetics on Saturday. It was the one of the first exhibits we swung by this weekend and were so compelled by it we went back today.
We got this video with some of the speakers this morning. Thanks to Sara for filming.
Due to popular demand, NEXTFEST is going one extra hour today until 4pm ET.
PONG is back. Atari released their version of William Higinbotham’s “Tennis for Two� in 1972. In 2006, Atari has brought PONG back…only this time the game is projected on a wall and players use their hands to move the virtual paddles along the game board. The hand movement is picked up by cameras stationed next to the projector.
There are actually three ways to play PONG (or derivations of it) at NEXTFEST. Atari has their set up, another group has an air hockey game projected on a table, and an artist has a 3-dimensional representation where players move their LCD screens (and bodies) to rebound the ball to their opponent.
A good number of the attendees to NEXTFEST, including myself, were not around to play PONG in the arcades when it debuted. The amount of excitement over the newest iteration is proof that good game play stands the test of time.
On the last day of NextFest I can sum up my experiences as terrific and my body as tired. It has been quite a thrill to educated the future scientists on water problems and some of the solutions. Hopefully the Next water solution will come from one of these future scientists when they create something that doesn’t exist today to treat the water. Until then, GE will continue to work with the GE Global Research Centers to invent future technologies today.
NextFest has been educational, fun and inspiring. Make sure to visit http://www.ge.com and http://www.gewater.com to play the Water World Tour Challenge one more time or learn more about the technologies used to treat water today.
It’s been fun New York!
We’re getting more sophisticated all the time on this blog. Here’s a quick video the of the VeinViewer exhibit. This technology lets physicians get a clear look at the veins in your arm for inserting an IV or drawing blood. This would have been helpful for me a few months back when I was giving blood at work.
The nurse could not find a strong vein and it took her four shots to strike gold and get the blood flowing. Boy I could have used this. Better luck next time. Check out the video!
Doors opened at nine and there were already pockets of people streaming into the Convention hall. They knew their timing was running out on an extraordinary event. This is my first Nextfest but the buzz around our team is that its been the best one yet. There’s an added energy to this year’s event. That’s what holding this in New York does.
Spent some time at “Virgin Galactic� yesterday and I was simply in awe. The interior looks almost like a New York dance club. Everything was white and the seats for the passengers were curved; almost looking like they would mold to the passengers body.
A real time simulation of the whole shuttle experience ran on a nearby plasma screen. The whole experience for the passengers would run only about 5 minutes in space. But wow what a five minutes that would be.
We’re going to be uploading some great video this morning on the blog…more to come.