About Brandon Pierce

Chief Harvester of Experience Farm

green enthusiast, lover of all things technology, multimedia, web development, and design

High Point Furniture Market : Interview with Bruce Barone

Photographer Bruce Barone

"Photography is my passion. Gourmet cook. Lover of cats, dogs, and red wine." - @brucebarone

When many think of the High Point Furniture Market, the first thing that comes to mind (aside from the 10 million square feet of incredible showroom space!) is meeting people you haven’t yet met, as well as seeing old friends and colleagues at the many mixers, dinners and events that take place just inside a week.

We had the opportunity to sit down with friend and photographer Bruce Barone at the Spring 2012 market and had him explain why he loves coming to High Point, why he will be back and what makes High Point Furniture Market the world’s leading trade show for the home furnishings industry!

Follow Bruce on Twitter @BruceBarone, ‘like’ him on Facebook and tell him the folks from @LinkingTriad sent you!

What do you enjoy the most about High Point Furniture Market?

John Strauss at High Point Market, Spring 2012

Linking Triad attended the Spring 2012 High Point Furniture Market. We met John Strauss through Twitter in 2011. We’re very impressed with his sustainable approach to furniture design. We think you will be as well.

John Strauss, furniture designer
http://www.straussfurniture.com/

All Your Thoughts, Are Belong to Us!

Emotiv's EPOC neuroheadsetIt started with my discovery of the “Imagination Board!” – a mind controlled skateboard.

This made me ask: If they can mind control a skateboard, what else is being mind-controlled?

The most common interface device I’ve found so far is the EPOC neuroheadset. Retailing at $299, I’m more than a little blown away. I mean, seriously, did any of us think mind-controlled skateboards, phones, or video games? I didn’t, and I’m a complete nutter for sci-fi!

Like any new interface technology worth the time, the EPOC neuroheadset has a development community and SDK (software development kit). It takes a village, right? I won’t lie though, most of the posts I saw in there are completely over my head.

Here’s a brief list of some of the applications developed (or in development) for use with the EPOC neuroheadset:

The object of the game is to develop your Emotiv EPOC skills and rebuild Stonehenge, moving the giant triliths to reconstruct the monument. Your mission is to put triliths in the east, west, south, north of the sacred site, and finally to raise the ancient temple which was buried in the middle of the stone circle.

A typical NeuroVault task, a game developer would use NeuroVault to capture a gamer putting a new game through its paces.

Afterwards, they could playback synchronized video, audio and EEG data, and see immediately which events in the game excited the player, or were frustrating, challenging or just downright boring. Because NeuroVault lets you review the data at your leisure, its very easy to visualize the exact events which trigger changes in emotional state.

After the reading of many charts, the application of copious amounts of saline, and not just a little bit of ‘OH YIKES,’ Chaotic Moon Labs is proud to introduce not the Board of Awesomeness 2.0, but rather the Board of Imagination. Using the same drive system and Samsung-built brains as the Board of Awesomeness, this new board is operated solely on the power of your imagination, no controller here. “LOOK, MA: NO HANDS!”

A new device from Dartmouth College lets users select and dial a contact’s phone number just by thinking about it.

Board of Imagination!

Here I am waiting around for my Hover Board, long after Michael J. Fox floated across the big screen more than two decades ago, when I hit upon a new type of skateboard from Chaotic Moon Labs, an Austin based company of awesomeness. This new board from Chaotic Moon Labs honestly makes me more excited than the Hover Board “imagined” in Back to the Future..

The new “Board of Imagination” is different from any other skateboard ever invented.

Why? Simple: the Board of Imagination is mind-controlled.

Here’s a video that literally blew my mind:

So the question I have to ask: Is this Science Fiction, or for real? The answer is: it’s for real…

I followed my sleuthing to an article on CNET, by Molly Wood, which lead me to the Emotiv Store, where you can actually buy the EPOC neuroheadset (the mind controller device). Judging from the video of Molly Wood using the Board of Imagination, it isn’t totally easy to control. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but I still want one!

Is this the dawn of a new era of Jedi devices, mind controlled and full of imagination and awesomeness? What’s next, will we be reading each others thoughts through wireless hairnets?

Whatever the future tech may hold, keep up the awesome development, Chaotic Moon Labs!

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Inspiration for this post owed to: @braernoch

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