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Primal Quest 2008; sleep is optional

dolface — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:44 -0800

The hardest race you've never heard of: Primal Quest 2008 kicked off today in SW Montana. Using only a map and compass, teams of 4 have up to 10 days to run, kayak, mountain-bike, riverboard and climb over 500 miles of wilderness. Sleeping is not required by the rules. Primal Quest is the World Cup of Adventure Racing, and arguably the hardest race out there. It's not a relay; teams are required to stay within 100 meters of each other at all times, in order to be in the running for prize money teams must have at least one woman, and while there are sometimes stringent rules, if the rules don't say you can't do it, go for it. Team dynamics are crucial, and a slow, solid team can beat a fast, squabbling team. Personality conflicts become magnified by sleep-deprivation, and it was these conflicts that led Mark Burnett to stop producing EcoChallenge and create Survivor: all the drama without the boring sweaty stuff in between fights. Follow it live on the map or just read the blog, and take your time, they're going to be going for 10 days after all. (Full disclosure: I'm an adventure racer and half my friends are out there right now. I'm pretty envious.

DIY AR

signal — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:40:17 -0800

Artag: Augmented reality on your desktop. via Digital Urban, with a HowTo.

Next up: Remote cockfighting!

nTeleKy — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:25:33 -0800

Poultry Internet!? YES! Though poultry have been known to have high levels of cognition and feeling many of us with busy lifestyles have a hard time fulfilling their needs. And some poor souls can't even be near poultry as a result of allergies. What to do? Why not a cybernetics system allowing for network-enabled remote haptic stimulation and feedback of poultry? Confused? Well, there's "The Office System where user fondles with the doll." and then that hooks up to "The pet (rooster) with pet dress." hopefully recapturing "our sense of togetherness with our animal friends, just like times gone by on the prairie, village, or jungle.". A bit of oddity brought to you by the Singapore Mixed-Reality Lab, who actually do a lot of cool stuff like AR human pacman; and they've got the videos to prove it.