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20 Nintendo Inspired Tattoos

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Ash & Pika

There’s a special place in the hearts of young and old who have played Nintendo games for the characters from Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon among other games. There’s also seems to be a special place on their skin, for the corresponding tattoos.

8-Bit Mario Tattoo

B&W Link

The Snorlax Motto

Mario Shadown

Hyrule Historia

8-Bit Link

Siblings with Super Mario Tattoos

Princess Peach

A Pokeball

Ash & Pikachu

Charmander

Majora’s Mask

The Song of Time

The Nintendo logo

A couple of Space Invaders

Super Mario on your Knuckles

Mushroom buddies

Yoshi’s Egg

Losing Life

The Konami code

More of these tattoos on Instagram if you feel like looking, or simply go to a Buzzfeed list.

For more of tattoo awesomeness from our vaults, check out these awesome Star Wars slightly steamy tats, or these beautiful ones inspired by books, or for Harry Potter fans, there are these brilliant ones.

FingerReader Ring Turns Text to Voice in Real Time for the Blind

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 05:30 AM PDT

MIT FingerReader

There are many devices that help the visually impaired live a normal life, but none is as convenient to use as the ring developed by MIT’s Media Lab, which reads text to them in real time.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a hi-tech ring that could help blind people say goodbye to the Braille tactile writing system. FingerReader, as this device is called, enables visually impaired people to read more than just books. In fact, this could allow them to also read computer screens, magazines, and menus. To make FingerReader even more interesting, MIT scientists created this ring using 3D printing.

FingerReader is a life-altering device for Jerry Berrier, 62, who is blind since birth, as it’s portable, and offers real-time functionality. The device could come in handy in various situations, as Berrier said: “When I go to the doctor’s office, there may be forms that I wanna read before I sign them.”

Berrier is aware of the existence of other such optical character recognition devices, but as far as he knows, none of the others offer results in real-time. FingerReder could actually diminish the differences between the sighted and the visually impaired, as Berrier noticed: “Everywhere we go, for folks who are sighted, there are things that inform us about the products that we are about to interact with. I wanna be able to interact with those same products, regardless of how I have to do it.”

The Fluid Interfaces research group that created FingerReader is lead by Pattie Maes, who compared the high-tech ring to “reading with the tip of your finger and it’s a lot more flexible, a lot more immediate than any solution that they have right now.”

With 11.2 blind people in the US, no one could say that there isn’t a market out there for such devices. The demand is even greater in such highly-populated countries as India and China. It took the Fluid Interfaces group three years to create the software and various versions of hardware, and they might think that there’s still room for perfecting the device. Hopefully, the FingerReader will be commercially-available in the not-so-distant future. Provided that it comes at a decent price, there are plenty of people who could benefit from it.

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Wearing Google Glass In a Cinema Could Get You Thrown Out

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Google Glass

Amidst fears of piracy, two theatre chains in America have banned Google Glass from their screens, forbidding customers from wearing it.

'It's in the name of fashion', 'I have a prescription', 'I just wanted to look cool, funky and fresh during my time at the movie theatre' – these are all excuses that just won't fly when you show up to the movie theatre in a pair of Google's hi-tech glasses as despite your perfectly innocent and perhaps entirely valid reasons for wearing them there, you still risk being thrown out. It seems like a slightly extreme punishment but the movie theatres are just protecting the skin on their well-flushed with money backs as Google Glass' use as an on-the-face recorder that could also see it turned into the perfect device for recording films off the screen and shopping them about online or on discs for a profit.

Two movie theatre chains to realise this are AMC and Alamo Drafthouse. AMC just booted one guy from the screening of a movie based on their suspicions (he actually wasn't recording anything with Google Glass, but AMC's policy is apparently guilty until innocent) while Alamo has at least issued a forewarning to explain that in its theatres (it operates in five states) once the lights dim before the movie you'll need to take your pair of Google Glass off but you'll be able to put them right back on when the lights go back up or if you have to head out of the screening to bag a box of popcorn or make a quick dash to the bathroom, which seems fair.

Although the decision is down to security, which seems understandable, perhaps neither company has considered that Google Glass just isn't made for recording over long periods of time (such as a 90 minute feature length movie) as after about 30 minutes of recording the device simply just runs out of battery. That detail comes from Google itself so whether we'll see some sort of statement from them on the theatre's Glass-banning is yet to be seen.

Source: CNET

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