Posted by Twain on July 17, 2009

YouTube, Thai w/Twain, a Kodak ZI6 HD + art

This was shot on my Kodak ZI6 HD camera:

For anyone interested in how the Kodak ZI6 compares with the Flip Mino HD camera, please view these:

This summer I’m visiting Wales, Madrid, Lake Garda (via France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany) so I’ll probably be posting some videos online of those beautiful places. To-date, of them, I’ve only ever visited Madrid and that was many years ago. There’ll be more about my experiences in Madrid in another blog post as soon as the hosting provider fixes an issue with the VPN this blog is on! I can’t upload any images; it gets rooted to the wrong directory in the VPN. Hopefully, the hosting provider will fix this soon.

Ah, yes. I’m currently dropping hints to my beloved it would be magical to visit the Hermitage for my b’day.

I would have said the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, but that doesn’t open until 2012 and I’ve already been to all the other Guggenheims, the Louvre, the Uffizi, del Prado, the National Art Gallery London, the New National Museum Berlin, the Metropolitan, the Whitney, MOMA NYC, MOMA Barca, Guell Park, the Venice Biennale, various temples along the Nile to see Egyptian art in situ, the Green Corridor of the Summer Palace in Beijing and also smaller galleries around the world, so there’s only the Hermitage left!

That and Inca art in Peru and Aboriginal art in Australia which I haven’t visited yet.

Whichever it is, I think the Kodak ZI6 HD will be a handy pocket camera to have on the art adventures!

Posted by Twain on July 17, 2009

17 July 2009: medical stories — Braingate

This was covered on Sky News this week and is amazing. Here are some relevant YouTube videos from New Scientist, Braingate and ABC News. The first video shows a monkey using Braingate to control a robotic arm to feed itself.

Once perfected, it will have great application for people whose limbs have been paralyzed for whatever reason. They’ll be able to control robotic substitutes to make their lives function more readily.