Hybrid Play – How it works – YouTube. Deploys a rugged-looking sensor in a clip onto a playground. It is networked with an iOS app and translates physical movement into videogame controls. Read more →
BBC News – Dare to be Digital games design competition launched
BBC News – Dare to be Digital games design competition launched. SWEAT collaborators, Tommy Hoffmann and Esteban Fajardo, are spending the summer in Dundee, Scotland, as part of the Dare To Be Digital competition. Read more →
Kinect v2 for PC to be released on July 15 for $199
Kinect v2 comes to the PC on July 15 for $199 summary at Ars Technica. Preorder Kinect V2 for PC at Microsoft Store Kinect for Windows SDK at the Microsoft Dev Center Read more →
Cory Doctorow: amandapalmer: in the bookstore bathroom.
Cory Doctorow: amandapalmer: in the bookstore bathroom.. Read more →
Estados Unidos sufre crisis nacional de heroína – El Nuevo Día
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 →
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 →