on a serious note .

my recently increased activity on blogger is the result of inspiration of some super active bloggers in our lab - and so any benefits and more importantly repercussions (read my grades next semester ;) ) can be backtracked to them - nicolas, mauro, and fabien (not necessarily in that order ;) ) Although, being inspired is not really being fair since instead of blogging about news from the world of research and technolgy that matters (for which i religiously scan their blogs everyday!) all i do is blog about ...err 'other stuff'.

however i'm quick to realize that i must move on to more important meaningful things ......and hence as a result of a 'scholarly' discussion held one afternoon - over some delicious 'orange' wine !! -ok i'm new to wine ;) - my next blog will be a lot more academic. Its focussed on a futuristic organic helmet ( the first user test for which has already been conducted and i'm holding back posting details for some IP related intricacies to work out). A pic of that will hopefully be avilable !

Related to this work is one on a prototype of a cool looking augumented reality tool - which can send both visual and haptic signals that are interpreted by the organic helmet. Although the detailed documentation of both cannot be made public at this moment since the projects are still under development you should be able to get a first look at them soon.

remember you saw them here first ;)