New Toys?

http://tinyurl.com/4vpu2o

Erik Eckel posted a TR photographic description on 5 June'08:

http://tinyurl.com/42vfbl

Rick/Portland, OR

You could spend your free time as a beta tester for one of these!

http://www.emotiv.com/corporate/6_0/6_2.htm

Basically a joystick that you wear on your head. :)

and she's VERY excited about it!
I haven't figured out yet what it's supposed to do. But since it looks like a huge bullet, I can't wait to see what should be a very cool gun that it fits in.

;-)

seriously...
When I'm the mood to toss some cash out da window on a new techy distraction, I always go here first:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/

I'm still having fun annoying people with this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8bc4/

You just wait until you find a number of people in an enclosed space like a coffee shop or even a pub, then sit down among them as just another customer.

Preferably from underneath the table you're sitting at - you activate THIS:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/9c69/?cpg=froogle

Just proves what confusion can be caused by a familiar yet impossible sound! :^0

[i]Word gets round though, you become a marked man and have to travel further afield to get another 'hit'.[/i] :(

ThinkGeek describe this as a new item but I first set mine off during my Post Graduate year 1994-95.

20000 of which are the photo. Only 6 posts to this thread.
WTF?

If you've got an office network, have you ever tried running with [u]DEFCON[/u] ??

It's got various modes of play but in an office, by far the best mode is to set deploy all your forces at start of business (or get into work 10 minutes early and catch your colleagues on the hop), running DEFCON in 'realtime' (the scenario plays out through an entire working day) and a little Nuclear Icon in your systray will flash when one of the opposing nations has made an unanticipated move, or the threat-scale has escalated.

Throughout ALL of this activity, there is no sign of the game (unless you activate the window), other than work colleagues all trying to figure out what each other are doing.

I reckon anything that gets the workforce into the building EARLY and builds a more cohesive workforce to boot, cannot be frowned upon by management. [b]But then I [u]would[/u] say that being a bit of a computer geek![/b]

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON_(computer_game)

With DEFCON your Company or Department or Room can host its very own, custom-built, Global Thermonuclear War.

OH! - and it's from a British software company and I know 2 of the Scottish coders.

What more could you want? :)