Under-secretary of State William Brownfield acknowledges increase in imports/smuggling and use of heroin among the US population, according to this report. WASHINGTON – Estados Unidos está enfrentando “una crisis nacional de heroína”, dijo el martes un funcionario antinarcóticos de alto rango. William Brownfield, subsecretario de Estado, señaló que en los últimos cuatro años se ha incrementado en 75% la cantidad… Read more →
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3D Video Capture with Three Kinects | Doc-Ok.org
Found via Prosthetic Knowledge’s Tumblr, a project that deploys 3 Kinect sensors to investigate telepresence applications. There is also an Oculus Rift component. Of interest to us is the detail that the three Kinects overlap and are synchronized. In an earlier post we discovered that roboticists (sic?) are attaching vibrators to Kinects suspended in a shock-absorbing frame in order to… Read more →
Taliban Earnings from Poppy Cultivation in 2012
According to the Counternarcotics Minister of Afghanistan, the Taliban earned at least $155 Million from poppy cultivation and the opium trade in 2012. The Government of Afghanistan reported that 102 police officers, soldiers and civilians were killed from attacks by poppy farmers and the Taliban during eradication efforts throughout the year. An additional 127 people were injured during the eradication… Read more →
More Heroin from Mexico Entering United States
In early 2014, federal security administrators reported that more heroin grown and produced in Mexico was entering the United States. Officials stated that this was occurring due to the decrease in marijuana that was being sold by Mexican traffickers. Based on intelligence and media interviews, the wholesale price of marijuana sold in Mexico has dropped within the past 5 years.… Read more →
Price of Heroin in Denver, Colorado
A reader of Havocscope submitted information through our Crowd-Sourced Data form to explain the prices of the heroin market in Denver, Colorado. According to our reader, the heroin dealers in the Denver metro area are mostly from Honduras. The heroin is bagged in half gram portions, which are sold for $30, and $60 for a full gram of heroin. Dealers… Read more →
Earnings for an Opium Grower in Egypt
A Bedouin who lives in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt has resorted to growing opium for drug traffickers in order to make a living. The man told the media that he previously provided camel tours to tourists. Before the uprising and revolution in Egypt in 2011, the man would see about 60 tourists each day. In the years following the… Read more →
▶ Nod – YouTube
▶ Nod – YouTube. Gesture control via bluetooth enabled ring. $150 USD for pre-order at their website, https://www.hellonod.com/. I wonder how durable, and what the range is. Could this replace a Kinect in Sow/Reap? I have had some bluetooth items that won’t allow multiple devices per CPU. Below is their promo video. Read more →
Guide to Projectors for Interactive Installations / by @laserpilot
Video projectors are one of the most important tools for creators of interactive installations. The information for projectors is available on various websites, but this 2 part guide will focus on their use in production and interactive environments. Part 1 will focus on the projector as hardwarelenses, lumens, surfaces etc, and part 2 will go into more details on the… Read more →
Amazon Fire TV – Amazon Apps & Games Developer Portal
High-Performance Gaming Amazon Fire TV has been designed around supporting HDTV and enabling powerful and immersive apps and games. It uses a Qualcomm Quad Core Snapdragon Krait 300 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM to support high performance game experiences. Fire TV also supports a variety of controllers to let you design the best experience for your… Read more →
Amazon Fire TV uses Snapdragon ARM v7
and uses a FireOS which is a customized version of Android JellyBean, which is a customized version Linux. It sells for 99 USD. Can we root it to run a straight Linux distribution and make a Linux build of our game?