Just got back from a show at Köpi, the squat on Köpenickerstraße, featuring punk bands from Berlin, China, and Buffalo, NY…I was there with USA buds Kate and Travis who are visiting me, and Travis and I were all, “oh hey this last band is NY hardcore how about that” and then we had big nostalgia about Jeremy Suria throwing the Triangle of Darkness and throwing himself all over the place in NJ. Okay.

This isn’t really super new, as these guys have been developing brain interfaces for the disabled for a while now, but there was a neat demo of what amounts to telepathic phone calls, covered by New Scientist:

(Via Warren Ellis)

I was walking around earlier today with my crap German cellphone that I can’t text Twitter with and thinking about the emerging thought-interface technology (see previous post) and how useful it would be for dictations: you could record ideas as soon as they pop into your head without pulling out a tape recorder or a journal—and if the device is hooked up to a cell phone/the Internet, liveblogging could get a whole lot more live. And then of course I had to wait 5 hours to put that thought on the webs. DANG