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The Beatles Number Nine Again

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Can The Beatles: Rock Band Save the Music Business? by Richard Corliss at Time Magazine

September 9, 2009, could be a Beatles perfect storm by Daniel Terdiman on CNet

Report: Apple music event September 9 by Erica Ogg on CNet

Rock Band: The Beatles Trailer Video

Mattel Will Release Neurofeedback Brain Game -- Brain Flex -- CBS Video on YouTube

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Mind Flex Like Basketball for Your Mind on Gizmodo

Odball Gadgets: Mattel Mind Flex by Melissa Perenso on PC World

Video: Mattel Mind Flex hands (and heads) on Engadget

The Mattel toy company (which is also releasing its 50th Anniversary Barbie Doll this year) announced a new "adult" game at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The game called Mind Flex, scheduled to be release in the next month or two features a brainwave guided ball which you maneuver through an obstacle course. 

Actually you control the ball with a combination of plain old hand-eye coordination but with the addition of additional control through EEG biofeedback. Your brainwaves are measured by a headset supplied with the game and your ability to control your brainwaves contributes to your success in guiding the ball through the course and to its goal.

The technology behind the Brain Flex is made by Neurosky. I first wrote Neurosky in my March 2006 post on the Mindware Forum, NeuroSky: Convert Your Brainwaves & Eye Movements Into Useful Electronic Signals To Communicate With Electronic Devices Such As Your Phone or PC

In the CBS news video below, Daniel Sieberg speaks with Mattel's Jim Sheridan about their new mind control toy.

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition -- Business Week

Link for this Post: Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace by Olga Kharif

When Google first offered Orcut back i in 2005, I developed an online persona there as did many people I know from the cybculture days of the Nineties.

Those were the days after Friendster had inspired a series of clones including Tribe.net,and then MySpace, the 800 Pound Gorilla of social networks until recently.