Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:25:27 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross <graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on TV Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981016082014.15194A-100000@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810151203470.25178-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > Did anyone notice that FreeBSD was on national TV this morning? > > I was watching the news while eating breakfast, and switching between > Fox and CNN. On both were stories about the implantation of sensors > inside a disabled person's skull, to possibly allow a computer to > communicate with that person. > > I was kinda rushed, so I didn't get too much of the story, but both > shows had a closeup of the computer screen in the same room with > doctors, bunches of equipment, and putative patient. There was Chuckie > the daemon looking back at me, on both, 5 minutes apart. > I saw the story here on late night Channel 9 news. Surgeons have implanted a coated glass sensor in the brain of a man who suffered a severe stroke (IIRC), leaving him with no movement and no speech. A radio transmitter sends signals to a computer interface that allows him to select various icons that talk, control things, etc. The example they showed was him selecting the "Cold" icon, which then said "I am too cold". The BSD daemon was the icon picture for "Uncomfortable"!!! That was the FreeBSD connection (unfortunately) - not the best BSD advocacy on TV this year... Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University Random thought #132 (Collect all 235) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Clarke) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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