DJ Paige Railstone

DJ Paige Railstone is an underground DJ and singer/songwriter who became popular in 2003. Her musical style includes rock, country, alternative, and hip-hop, and she plays guitar, keyboard, and piano. But she has never been on TV or in a movie, and she refuses to play in public.

DJ Paige Railstone's mashup of Verve and Eminem

DJ Paige Railstone is not real.

There is a website called 20Q.net which asks twenty questions, then guesses what you were thinking of. If 20Q can’t guess, then it asks you what you were thinking of, and your answers are stored and used to enlarge the database. The Nerdfighters wondered if they could make up a person and have 20Q guess correctly.

So they invented DJ Paige Railstone. Paige is the Nerdfighter who came up with the idea to trick 20Q. Railstone anagrams to “is not real.” A list was made of everything about DJ Paige Railstone, and distributed online to all Nerdfighters. They played 20Q, and eventually, tricked the game.

 There is something inherently fun about tricking something, in figuring it out. The Nerdfighters collectively did this to the game 20Q. For them, the game was to trick the game. They didn’t play the game the way it was intended – they made their own game out of it. This is an example of how everything can be made into a game, depending on the view of the people playing.

I wonder if the makers of 20Q anticipated something like this when they built it.

CNN's Hologram

Last January, CNN brought two live guests into their studio by hologram. Yes, that's right. By hologram. Live. This incredible technology, which has been dreamed of for so many years (think back to Star Wars and Star Trek), is finally coming about.

This is how holograms work.

This technology is still very new and is still very much being developed, but the fact that it works and was available for CNN to use incredible.
It seems like there has been almost a race to get holograms out. It is something that people have been trying to achieve since it was first imagined. It's taken a long time, but we finally have the capability.

Of course, it's nowhere near ready for commercial use. Live holograms take too much equipment and too much space to create. Although the technology is stunning, there is not much we can do with it right now.

But in a few years, it will be much better. These scientists will keep working to develop hologram capability that can be bought for a high price by small number of consumers. Then, they will keep working, Capitalistic competition will kick in, and holograms will improve and be ready for the general consumer.

It's incredible to see how quickly the future is arriving. I remember so well wishing holograms were real when I was a kid. Now, they are real, and I'm still pretty much a kid.

WiTricity

I don't know about you, but I've got a lot of cords that get tangled pretty often. I'm always arbitrating fights between my tangled cords, trying to pull them apart from each other. They just never seem to be able to get along.

So maybe I'll just get rid of them, because now I can.
Scientists from MIT have developed a way to charge computers, phones, controllers, and so much more without ever plugging them in. It's called WiTricity, and it works using a magnetic field to create energy flow. Ordinarily, magnets are harmful to computers and such things, but this magnetic field is not.
Not only is this an ingenious invention, but it also happens to have a very sleek design, which makes it highly market-ready.
WiTricity was named by Technology Review in 2008 as one of the "10 Emerging Technologies" which are most likely to change the way we live. I really believe that it will. In a few years, wires will be outdated.